Re: mciseq: Prevent busy-wait while paused.

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi Joerg,

2010/4/15  <Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle(a)t-systems.com>:
> Hi,
>
> any comment on that patch? It's currently the bottommost in
> source.winehq.org/patches hence may fall into the bitbucket anytime.
>
> I had noticed that the MCI MIDI player would busy loop while paused
> because of a while(xyz) ; statement therein.
>
> Test it using these MCI commands
> open c:\data\foo.mid alias m
> play m
> pause m
>
> So I simply added a Sleep() and wrote:
> > 7 ms is arbitrary. It allows to sleep well yet be responsive enough
> > so the app doesn't wait too long should the next command be MCI_Stop.
> > For the ear, an even larger sleep would be good enough.

It would be better to signal an event object to wake up from sleep.

Cheers,
Maarten