Andrew Griffin wrote:
> Okay, I have tried everything in order to check and see if my playing
> MIDI, using the MCISendString command, is done playing.
>
> First, I have used this, but it doesn't work:
>
> 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
>
> What happens is the "status myAudio" part returns "MMSYSTEM273 The
> specified command is missing a paramter. Please enter one." Now, when
> I ran this script I used the "myAudio" alias as well as the alias
> "bgmusic", but neither worked (I aliased my music using both names, not
> at the same time of course!). I put a "return the result" type script
> below the if handler to get the above message. I looked through the
> metacard mci stack and even when you click on it's status command it
> gives you the same error. I have tried a number of other things, but
> still cannot get it to work. What is the parameter that's missing? All
> I need to do is check to see if the MIDI is done playing so it can
> either loop itself or play another. Has anybody got the above script to
> work? If so how?
>
> Thanks for any help, it's driving me nuts and I really need it to work!
That script is based on a portion we've used in a commercial product without
any problems. My guess is that something is going wrong at the stage when
you start playing the MIDI. Unfortunately, I don't have the complete script
to hand right now.
If you can't solve it, you could switch to using the 2.3B1 release. That
has a "player" object that plays back Quicktime movies (you can easily
convert your MIDI to QT).
Regards,
Kevin
> --Andrew
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