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From: Anna <amarsh@bournemouth.ac.uk>
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Subject: never-ending sound with SsUtKeyOn
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 00:15:37 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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After finally managing to coax some sound outta me Yaroze, I'm now
having problems using it.  Basically, I have one sound effect, a "ping"
noise which happens when the player collides with objects.  Now, if I
set that off with SsUtKeyOn when the player's object detects collision,
then i get a never ending noise which is never switched off again. 
However, if I put SsUtKeyOff in, it switches the sound off as soon as it
goes on, so the result is no noise.  I know that both SsUtKeyOn and
SsUtKeyOff are working, cos they're returning valid values.

So my question is:  When should I use SsUtKeyOff?  Is there some kind of
way of doing a sound sync, in the same way that Vsync does screen
drawing?  I basically just want the noise to last as long as the sample
"ping" it comes from.  Do the vag files contain infomation about the
length of a sound?

Cheers,  Anna.