Phoenix Edition v3.1 released!

[Stuart]

I ran into a problem with sound files not being played as expected and found this to be the problem : 

The old audio backend would return 0 if the sound couldn't be loaded.
The new audio backend will return -1 if the sound can't be loaded.

This wouldn't be a major problem since the check for a valid handle could simply be changed to "IF h& > 0 THEN _SNDPLAY h&" -- however, any programs that were written with the previous (shorter) syntax of "IF h& THEN..." won't work like they used to.

It might be a good idea to make the new audio backend _also_ return a 0 instead of -1.


Also, in the Help File and/or Wiki : 

under _SNDOPEN it says "Returns a LONG soundHandle& value to the sound file in memory. A value less than one means the sound could not be loaded".  (This could mean 0 _or_ -1.)
Later it says "Always check the handle value returned is greater than zero before attempting to play the sound".

under _SNDPLAY it says "Make sure that the handle& value is not 0 before attempting to play it."
In the example code for checking a handle before playing is :  "IF h& THEN _SNDPLAY h&"

This would need to be edited if an invalid handle returns -1 instead of 0.