[Pythonmac-SIG] bundlebuilder question: snack (tcl extension)

[Jack Jansen]

On 10 Sep 2004, at 01:52, Russell E Owen wrote:
> Also, any suggestions for a better sound package. All I want to do is 
> play sound queues in a Tkinter-based Python application. (Thus all I 
> want to do is play sound files asynchronously). Snack seems to work, 
> but installation is a bit of a pain.

My first choices would be Sound Manager (Carbon.Snd) or quicktime 
(Carbon.Qt). Sound Manager should not interfere with Tkinter (at least, 
I can't see how it could), but it's a rather old toolbox (and so is the 
Python interface) so it can be a bit quirky to get working. But there 
are examples. Actually, I think the Audio_mac module (in Lib/plat-mac) 
may already do what you want, just make sure you keep it fed with 
enough samples (for example in a Tkinter timer callback). If it doesn't 
do the right thing it's a good example anyway. Caveat: I haven't used 
this module in a long time, and I'm not sure anyone else ever did.

QuickTime needs to be told not to open visual elements (such as it's 
playback control panel), and then it should be fine with Tkinter too.
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