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play-sound Function

Summary

Plays a loaded sound on Microsoft Windows and Cocoa.

Package

capi

Signature

play-sound sound &key wait

Arguments
sound
A sound object returned by load-sound.
wait
A generalized boolean.
Description

The function play-sound plays the loaded sound sound.

If wait is true then play-sound will not return until sound has finished playing. That is, it plays the sound synchronously. The default value of wait is nil.

Notes
  1. :wait t is only implemented on Microsoft Windows.
  2. play-sound is not implemented on GTK+ and Motif.
See also

load-sound
stop-sound
18.2 Sounds


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