Stopping _SNDPLAYCOPY ?Possible?

[TerryRitchie]

I think _SNDSTOPCOPIES may be a good idea. A fair amount of complexity is involved in getting this done on the BASIC side using arrays, _SNDCOPY & _SNDCLOSE. There is no way to stop and dispose of copies until it finishes playing. Also, the C++ side implementation is trivial.

Maybe we can have this in 3.15 when we make more audio-specific improvements.

Thank you for considering this.

Oh yeah, that's right, as you point out _SNDCOPY will make another instance in RAM than needs to be removed with _SNDCLOSE. More overhead that I didn't consider.

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Why wouldn't we use handles for this?

_SNDPLAYCOPY doesn't return a handle but instead handles all sound management internally.

Is it possible to tweak _SNDPLAYCOPY to return a handle?

You would still need to manage all those returned handles with an array.

_SNDPLAYCOPY internally copies a new instance of the sound, plays it, then removes the new instance. The grunt work is already being handled by _SNDPLAYCOPY since it needs to keep track of all those new handles. A new command such as _SNDSTOPCOPIES could simply use that internal list created by _SNDPLAYCOPY to stop all the copied associated handles.