Re: Avoid a possible deadlock when stopping playback

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Christian Costa"  wrote:
> > If the MCI command was sent asynchronously (without MCI_WAIT)
> > an thread gets created and the command gets executed there.
> >
> > So, if an app does:
> > mciSendCommand(MCI_PLAY); // an async thread gets created
> > and right after that:
> > mciSendCommand(MCI_STOP);
> >
> > last command hangs forever.
>
> Do you have a test app?

Yes. It's PowerPoint XP.
> BTW, I've found more wave calls to "protect", will send a patch. :-)

Good :-)