[SDL] How to manage channels

[Edward Byard]

Hi Daniel

Depends on what you are doing, and how important sounds are.

If you have many channels then fine, just get an empty channel and play your sound.
Personally I reserve a channel for looping sounds, and then just use others for effects, but again it depends on your needs.

I think it's better to manage your channel usage rather than just randomly kill channels when you need to play another sound.

Ed



----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Grace <danwgrace at gmail.com>
To: SDL at lists.libsdl.org
Sent: Monday, 24 March, 2008 6:10:31 PM
Subject: [SDL] How to manage channels

When using Mix_PlayChannel to play effects is the best way to look for
a free channel (a channel not already playing something) , and play
the effect on the free channel ?  If there is no free channel then
either don't play the effect or stop one of the channels and play the
new effect instead.
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