On 16 Dec 2004, at 15:20, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
I really don't want to poll the sound sample all the time since it uses up resources needlessly. If it comes to that, though, it's pretty much guaranteed that it will get the job done.
A thread which polls once per second (and sleeps otherwise) is a negligible overhead. I wouldn't lose sleep over that.
This is what I tried to do. I've now tried to do it with weak pointers as well. I get the finalizer to run, but for some reason the finalizer for the sound resource gets invoked before the finalizer for the channel. This is extremply strange since the channel contains a reference to the "ForeignPtr CSoundSample" so I wouldn't expect the sound resource finalizer to EVER get invoked while there are still channels around that are referencing it.
Well suppose the channel goes out of scope. Now the channel and the sound are both out of scope, so they can be GC'ed. There is no guarantee in which order the finalizers will be invoked, so it's perfectly possible that the sound finalizer runs before the channel finalizer.
Jules
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