From: Richard <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T05:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: sleep 0.2 acts more like sleep 1

Hi Cliff,

I agree completely,  but I didn't know where to get (of how to
construct) a longer file.  And I'd rather learn a better Ruby
technique (as Cliff provided on May 15, for example) than research
multimedia issues.

But thanks for posting a valid idea.

Best wishes,
Richard

On May 16, 5:11 pm, "Cliff Rowley" <cliffrow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gordon Thiesfeld [mailto:gthiesf...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 15 May 2007 15:45
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Re: sleep 0.2 acts more like sleep 1
>
> > 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
>
> It would also make sense to me to use a longer sound file.  A 3 second sound
> file containing 15 beeps, or something..  Seems a little less like brute
> force to me, playing the sound only 4 or 5 times in 15 seconds, or
> something.
>
> Just my 2p.