Re: pygame sound very slow to respond
- From: BlueScale <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:59 -0400
Hi,
Definently not Jaws, I use Linux full time with the Orca screen reader.
The windows instructions for soundrts say to turn off screenreader
software, so that may in deed be the problem.
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:47 -0400, Alex Hall wrote:
> No; Windows Mail, Edsharp, a couple Explorer windows... on a dual core
> with 4gb ram? I guess I am just lucky. By any chance, are you running
> no screen reader, or one that is not jaws?
>
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
> New email address: mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BlueScale
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: pygame sound very slow to respond
>
>
>
> Hi,
> Very strange, when I run this program the sound happens
> instantly. Is there a lot of other stuff taking up cpu time
> too?
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:32 -0400, Alex Hall wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Below is the code of an example pygame program that plays a sound
> when a key
> > is pressed. However, the sound is slow to happen, a bit less than a
> second
> > from keypress to sound play. A second is a long time to wait in a
> game...
> > Why is it so slow? Is it because the ogg decoding takes a while?
> No, that
> > would only be slow to load, not to play. I don't know, but I can't
> imagine
> > games from this if it takes so long to respond.
> >
> >
> > Begin Code:
> > # start playing a sound when a key is pressed
> > # exit if the letter "q" or the "escape" key is pressed
> >
> > # import the pygame module
> > import pygame
> >
> > # start pygame
> > pygame.init()
> >
> > # load a sound file into memory
> > sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("bird.ogg")
> >
> > # start the display (required by the event loop)
> > pygame.display.set_mode((320, 200))
> >
> > # loop forever (until a break occurs)
> > while True:
> > # wait for an event
> > event = pygame.event.wait()
> > # if the event is about a keyboard button that have been pressed...
> > if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
> > # ... then start playing the sound
> > sound.play()
> > # and if the button is the "q" letter or the "escape" key...
> > if event.unicode == "q" or event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE:
> > # ... then exit from the while loop
> > break
> > # end if
> > # end if
> > # end while
> >
> >
> > Have a great day,
> > Alex
> > New email address: mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx
> >
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