Re: alRewind on a Looping Source

Jason Daly <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:40:13 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.openal
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Bob Aron wrote:
> Question:
>
> The documentation states that calling alRewind() on a source that is in the AL_PLAYING state should promote the state to AL_STOPPED, and then AL_INITIAL. There is no clear definition however of the expected behavior if the source is currently looping.
>
> Should the source:
>
> 1) promote the state to AL_STOPPED, and then AL_INITIAL and stop playing
> 2) rewind to the beginning and continue playing with no change in source state
> 3) ignore the call altogether
> 4) something else?
>   

I thing 1 was the original intent (setting the source to STOPPED first 
kind of implies this).

alSourceRewind() never seemed to have much use, even early on.

--"J"

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