Recently, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Does anyone know how to play audio CDs from within Metacard? > > I am trying to put together a Metacard stack that will run in an "enhanced > CD" which is an audio CD that plays in your stereo, but that has software > that can run on your Mac or PC. The software portion of my enhanced CD will > be some Metacard stacks. One of the things I want my stacks to do is play the > audio part of the CD, but I can't figure out how to do it. I think I need > some xcmds/DLLs to do it. I do have "CD Audio Toolkit 1.0," a Hypercard stack > with xcmds that Apple put out in 1989. But it crashes my machine, so I think > it's just too old.
We've used MC for this, but the new system releases have thrown a wrench into the options. On Windows you use MCI (see the MCIsendString function), but I haven't tested this lately on XP. For MCI reference you can go here: http://www.tactilemedia.com/info/MCI_Control_Info.html (Note: this is a 300K document -- give it a second or two to load.) On MacOS9 and earlier, you need to use XCMDs, but as you've seen, all the public versions haven't been updated in a long time so getting something reliable might be tricky. (On one project, we wound up using SuperCard in lieu of finding reliable externals.) On OSX, I have no clue, but AppleScript might be a possibility. Perhaps someone else has some other experience/information. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design ----- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
