I am writing that play silence addon. I have found a computer that
exibits the behavior that the one person mentioned (if you know who I am
talking about, tell me, i don't remember who that was). I almost have it
working. The only problem is that the addon doesn't quite work at this
point because it locks up when waiting for nvda to play other sounds
like the error sound or exit sound.
If anyone would like to take a stab at debugging it, or recommend
another way to solve the problem that would be great. Currently i start
a worker thread that plays silence constantly. It listens in a queue for
the "die",. "wait", and "resume" messages, and if it receives the wait
message it temperarily stops playing silence with nvwave, so that nvwave
can play another audio file. When it receives resume it starts playing
silence again. When it receives die it exits the whole thread (This
happens when nvda exits. I don't know much at all about parallel
programming so I don't know if this is the correct way to do this. Nvda
seems to freeze when i call queue.join in a monkeypatched version of
playWaveFile. This is so that I can wait until the other thread stops
playing silence and I can safely use nvwave.
It locks nvda into a scarey bind currently and if you don't know what
you are doing it will totally just lock your computer up, so DO NOT USE.
If nvda plays any wave file at all it will just wate forever. The repo I
currently have this in is at
https://bitbucket.org/derek_riemer_/play-scilence
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