No, same API routine, sndPlaySound.

Reading about it, in theory telling it to play a second sound while the first sound is still playing, would interrupt the first sound.

Of course, if the first sound (the launch sound) is short it might have finished playing by the time Nexus tries to play the second sound (the auto-hide sound).

In this case (and I think this is what is happening here) it might even give the impression that the two sounds are playing concurrently.

However, if the timing has changed and the launch event suddenly happens much faster, the second sound might 'cut off' the first before it has had a chance to play for an audible amount of time.

Jorge,

No, I meant your code that contains the call to the API. Do they differ?

This still brings me back to the same question. What has changed between the two releases? The "Hide/Collapse" sound didn't step on the "Launch item" sound in the previous release. Something has changed to bring about a faster collapse i.e. the sounds should play sequentially, not concurrently





Thanks,
Grouch

No.



I don't agree. If that were so and you assigned a .wav file that lasted 10 or more seconds to the Launch event, by the time the hide sound played the dock would have already been hidden for a long time.

Sounds should play as the event happens, i.e.; the 'slush' sound should always be somewhat synchronized with the auto-hide animation itself - it would be ridiculous if it happened 10 or more seconds after-the-fact because the application was still busy playing the previous sound event.

Yeah, I just tried it with the 'Music' sound scheme and I can confirm a new sound stops any sound that was previously playing.

So, if anything changed between v11.6 and v11.10, is that the time between launching something and the dock auto-hiding is shorter for some reason - but I certainly did nothing on purpose to change that.

Who'd have a 10 second launch sound? What I'm saying is, the "Hide/Collapse" event should wait until the "Launch item" event and its' associated sound have completed.

Thanks,
Grouch

And who would have figured there are people who worry so much about a simple launch event sound not playing when it's immediately followed by another?

In other words, just because you wouldn't, doesn't mean somebody else won't. And then he would be here too, complaining how the hide event sound does not play when the dock hides but only when the launch event sound finishes playing.

Fine. Forget it.

Hey, don't be like that! lol

I was pointing out that just because you wouldn't, that doesn't mean somebody else won't.

Anyway, there are two considerations here: first, is it really worth all the trouble to 'fix' this (not like it got broken, sndPlaySound's behavior has always been like this, it's the timings that are apparently different - and in a good way)? And second, sndPlaySound will never play two simultaneous sounds, nor will it 'queue' them, I would have to switch to mciSendString. And that is another can of worms, because then each sound would have to have its own alias, etc... which brings us right back to the first question.

Okay! The game's not worth the candle.

jorge i asked you awhile back if you had removed the samples. i never went and actually checked to see if i have the samples folder. as you can see from the screenshot for some reason i do not. the only time i've been in c:\users\public\winstep was to put in my license key. you told me i had to have added the sound i use to have. that aside i'm going to ask again if there is a text file with all of my preferences listed if i decide to uninstall all of winstep and start from scratch. the reason i ask is that the sounds missing goes back to my previous install of 7, so i'm pretty sure something in my ws backups is causing the folder to disappear. the link includes the screenshots, and both backup files. on the backup files just click on them to bring them to the center of your page, then click it again to get the download box.

http://min.us/mTUbVc4zH