[Haskell-cafe] FFI woes!

[Jules Bean]

On 16 Dec 2004, at 06:57, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

> Here's the problem though. If the SamplePlaybackRaw is currently
> playing sound when it gets garbage collected, I want to keep the sound
> resource (SoundSample) alive until the playback has finished.
>

I probably haven't understood the details correctly but why not just 
spawn a thread in your 'start playback' function. This thread (a) keeps 
a reference to the soundsample (which guarantees it will never be 
GC'ed) and (b) checks every second or so to see if the playing has 
finished.  If the playing has finished, it arranges to no longer hold 
the reference, and in due course GC will take it out.

Jules