macOS Play a QTMovie twice at the same time

[fernandovalente]

Hi, I'm developing an app that has a button. When the user press this button, a sound is played. I would like to be able to play the sound twice in case of the user press the button again before the sound ends playing. Anyway to do that using a QTMovie?

 

[HiRez]

It sounds like you just want to disable the button while the sound is playing and then re-enable it when the sound is done? That would prevent a double tap, although maybe I'm misunderstanding what you want.

 

[fernandovalente]

No, I don't want to disable the button. I really want to allow the user to press the button twice.

 

[kainjow]

Just make a second instance of the QTMovie and play it.

 

[HiRez]

In that case I suppose you could spawn a second movie in memory (no visual representation) and play it, although Core Audio would probably be more appropriate to something like this.

 

[fernandovalente]

Tried this:

[[[QTMovie alloc] initWithFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"1.mp3" ofType:nil] error:nil] play];

The problem is that it doesn't release it from the memory when it finished playing.

 

[kainjow]

So store a reference and release it when it's done playing - read the docs for what notification gets sent at that time.