If you don't want to (or can't) upgrade to 8.5 which apparently fixes
the problem, here is an entirely different approach.
Create a "sound manager" (or if you are not into object oriented
programming, a set of related routines a bunch of globals). Build a
list of the sounds you want to play with your small half second, or
one second or two second silence sounds in between. If you are into
OOP, put the object into the actorlist so that you get called back in
your "on stepFrame" handler at every frame event. In the stepFrame
handler check to see if the current sound is finished. If so, delete
it from the first position in the list, then play the first sound in
the list.
Completely off the top of my head, completely untested:
-- SoundMgr parent script
property plSounds -- property which is a list of your sounds
on new me
plSounds = []
add(the actorList, me) -- by doing this, 'on stepFrame' below gets
called every frame
return me
end
on mBuildList me
-- do what ever you do to build up plSounds with your small silence
sounds in the list
-- plSounds[1] = "Whatever.snd"
-- plSounds[2] = "HalfSecondPause.snd"
-- plSounds[3] = "Another.snd"
-- etc.
end
-- AND/OR, you can call this to add a sounds one at a time
on mAddToSoundList me, newSoundName
append(plSounds, newSoundName)
end
on stepFrame me
if plSounds = [] then
return
end if
if soundBusy(1) then -- whatever sound channel you want to use
return -- still playing, just return
end if
-- no sound playing, get the next one
nextSound = plSounds[1]
puppetSound 1, nextSound -- or sound(1).play ...
deleteAt(plSounds, 1)
-- do whatever you want with the name of the sound which is in the
variable: nextSound
end
on mCleanUp me -- call this when you are ready to quit
deleteOne(the actorList, me)
end
At 12:48 AM +0200 6/13/01, Michael Nadel wrote:
><snip>
>
>> Irv's idea is MUCH better.
>
>The problem with Ivr's idea is that the handler "on cuePassed" doesn't seem
>to register cuepoints on very short sounds. For example, if I use a blank
>sound that's only .5 seconds long to space the other sounds, and on that .5
>second sound I put a cuePoint, then when I use the on cuePassed handler, it
>doesn't seem to catch the cuepoint. It works only the first time, but after
>the second time it plays the "blank" sound (after playing a "real" sound) it
>already doesn't catch the cuepoint again! I don't know why. Anybody have any
>ideas? I am desperate to find a reliable way to execute a handler each time
>a sound from the cueList is played.
>
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