From: Richard <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T05:00:16+09:00
Subject: Re: sleep 0.2 acts more like sleep 1

Hi Gordon,

That's perfect for my purposes:

1. Achieving looping within the playing mechanism is much faster than
using a Ruby loop invoking a Win32 function repeatedly

2. Using an explicit rather than symbolic path is also a speedup, i.e.
"F:\\WINXPPRO\\media\\chimes.wav" instead of ALARM_BELL 	=
ENV["WINDIR"] + "\\Media\\chimes.wav"

Thank you very much for the addition post.

Best wishes,
Richard


On May 15, 10:41 am, Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understand your question, you want to play a wav file repeatedly,
> as quickly as possible.  This code is from the example file in the
> win32-sound gem.  It plays chimes.wav 5 times in 3 seconds on both of
> my XP machines.
>
> <code>
> require "win32/sound"
> include Win32
>
> wav = "c:\\windows\\media\\chimes.wav"
>
> Sound.play(wav,Sound::ASYNC|Sound::LOOP)
> sleep 3
> Sound.stop
>
> </code>
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Gordon