> I have been told that There is no physical limit to how many clips you can > have open at one time. And I have been advised to opening clips as you enter > pages. > > But hoe long can you keep do this, will the use run out of memmory on a low > speced system, how can I check how much memmory is left tolaod clips, and what > sort of error would I expect > > A complete lesion is likly to be about 1Mb of sound files > Any thoughts on the subject?The number of clips you can open at the one time seems to be dependant on the amount of free DOS conventional memory. If you have 550K free then you will be able to open about 20 clips. If you have only 480K then you may only be able to open 4 or 5 clips at the one time. Of course your mileage will vary.
Since my apps depend on preloading clips etc. I need to know what the clip memory situation really is, so I wrote this:
if clipsFree() < 4
request "You do not have enough conventional DOS memory to run this app." \
with "Exit" or "Continue Anyway"
if it is "Exit"
send exit
end
end
The support routine requires that you have defined MAXCLIP number of clips
which are called "keyTone1" "keyTone2" "keyTone3" "keyTone4" etc. Of course
you can use a different root name e.g. z1 z2 z3 etc.
to get clipsFree
local openLzt, numClipsAlreadyOpen
MAXCLIPS = 9
ROOTCLIPNAME = "keyTone"
numClipsAlreadyOpen = itemCount(sysOpenMedia)
sv = sysSuspend
sysSuspend = false
step i from numClipsAlreadyOpen to MAXCLIPS
get ROOTCLIPNAME & i
clear sysError
mmOpen Clip it
mmyield; mmyield; mmyield; mmyield; mmyield; mmyield
if sysError <> null
send closeClipList openLzt
return i
else
push Clip it onto openLzt
end
end
send closeClipList openLzt
sysSuspend = sv
return MAXCLIPS
end
to handle closeClipList openLzt
while openLzt <> null
pop openLzt
mmclose it
mmyield; mmyield; mmyield; mmyield; mmyield; mmyield
end
end
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"Author Level - and loving it"
Melbourne TUG (Toolbook User Group) Australia.
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