>In further working with the code snippets posted, and comparing them
>to the converted pascal routine (which looks identical) I was still
>unable to achieve the results I expected to see from reading the
>docs at the apple site. Correct me if I am mistaken, but I am under the
>impression that calling the SndRecord function should pop up a dialog
>with stop, start, pause, play and resume recording controls. I seem to
>get nothing, and my call returns -108 which is not listed in the docs.


Try the sound recording code on my web site. I know it works because I use 
the code in one of my apps. Download it at:
http://users.aol.com/AlStaff/MacSoftware/BASIC/FBSndRecord.sit


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