On Thurdsay, Oct 21 1999, Andrew Griffin wrote:
> Well I tried using this:
>
> on startPlaying
> --put your commands to alias the file here and then to play it
> send "checkFinished" to me in 5 seconds
> end startPlaying
>
> on checkFinished
> if mciSendString("status myAudio") is not "stopped" then
> send "checkFinished" to me in 5 seconds
> exit checkFinished
> end if
> --its finished, insert script to play it again here
> send "checkFinished" to me in 5 seconds
> end checkFinished
>
> But it didn't work the way I needed it to. In fact, when I ran it, the
> mcisendstring sent back that it was missing parameters. Is there
> something special that you need to send to the mci? It's specifically
> on this line:
>
> if mciSendString("status myAudio") is not "stopped" then
>
> Now, I've tried just using this line to check if the status of myAudio
> is stopped, but it doesn't seem to know what I'm talking about. Maybe
> it just doesn't know what "stopped" is. Is there some other way to
> check myAudio's status?
The example script I gave assumed you opened the MCI device using the name
"myAudio" as the alias. If you used a different alias, you'll need to
change the "myAudio" part in the script example. If you're just playing the
MCI without opening it up as a named alias, you need to do it that way - see
the mci examples stack on ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/mci.mc.gz for how
to do that.
Regards,
Kevin
> --Andrew
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