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i made a game in Ubuntu in which i use .wav files to play the sound in the background using this function:-

system("canebrake-gtk-play -f file_path")

But when the sound is played the whole game stops means the animation stops but after the completion of the sound , the game starts again normally....But this is creating a mess for me and showing a very bad impact , so i want to remove this creepy thing from my game ...so any help would be appreciable.. THANKX

Mohsin Mushtaq
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    Use a thread/subprocess to play the sound but this not a good way actually. Try to use some C++ framework to play the sound. – VP. May 30 '15 at 20:06

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system("canebrake-gtk-play -f file_path")

That's going to be executed synchronously from your code. That's why your program is blocked on execution of this.

You might consider to execute that using a fork() and exec()to be executed at background.

Providing a separate thread (instead of a process), is another option.

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Here's a quick and dirty way.

pid_t pid = fork();

if (pid == 0) {
   system("canebrake-gtk-play -f file_path");
   exit(0);
}

You could also use a thread instead of another process.

Maresh
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