On 13 February, 2012 4:38, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Conrad Shultz wrote: > >> The simplest (and therefore least customizable) approach would be to use >> NSSound. But I think it will do everything you stipulate. > > A minor issue with NSSound in games is that, the first time you play a > particular sound, it’ll first hang for a fraction of a second while it loads > the file. I’ve found this to be annoyingly distracting since it also freezes > animations. To work around this, at startup create the NSSound object, set > its volume to 0 and play it once. That will pre-load the samples into memory.
Actually I found that there is no need to play the NSSound at 0 volume to load the data into RAM, simply instantiating the NSSound ahead of time (with +soundNamed:) is enough. I looked into using NSSound for simple game sounds in a blog post a while back: http://bleepsandpops.com/post/1431403685/using-nssound-for-simple-game-sounds-in-cocoa As the OP was creating a simple puzzle game I think NSSound is a reasonable way to go for the sound effects. Might even be reasonable for the music too, if it is just a looping MP3. Jim _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
