[Coco] Question about UmuseK

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/15/03 12:30:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
bdevries at gil.com.au writes:

> Are you aware that if you [F10] to another screen away from A playing song
>  in UmuseK V9.12.11C, it stops playing, and saves all the notes up, and 
plays
>  them all in a rush when you go back to its screen?
>  Is this a bug, or a feature? :-)

It's both!  And yes, I'm aware of it, and not real happy about it.
But there's a reason it's there.  I put it in so if you hold a mouse button 
while it's playing, the music pauses.  Try it -- with good timing, you can 
catch it on a chord, and that chord just keeps on sounding out your synth.  Great 
for finding a bad note in your score.

Unforch, I found that, if you switch screens, the mouse routine does not 
return, and the music pauses.  And worse yet, as you noticed, time does not stop 
passing in UME's mind, so the catch-up is instantaneous.

I tried to figure out some way for the mouse routine to distinguish its 
return value between button held and no screen, but couldn't come up with a simple 
solution.

I could certainly make it an option.  And then maybe work on a better 
mouse-trap (routine).

Yes, I noticed this mis-feature the first time I went to do some edit and 
compile while having nice background music.

If you really care (like you intend to use UME on the MM/1) I will fix this.  
There is another brand-new bug in UmuseK that I just put in last week with 
some upgrading, will have to fix that too anyway.  --Mike K.