actually, on second thoughts, Peter's solution looks much better
On Dec 3, 12:04 pm, Nellboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> no problem Bill... The solution is just to keep playing with it, and
> recoding it in different ways until it works... if my suggestion
> helped, then I think it probably has got something to do with the way
> the Sound.play function is executing... from what you say, i suspect
> that it's not clearing the previous sound out of cache before loading
> the next one - I've seen something like that before but not in
> Rails... you could try something like this to see if that's the case:
>
> def play_correct_sound(input_value)
> if input_value = 'good'
> correct_sound = good_sound
> elsif input_value = 'bad'
> correct_sound = bad_sound
> else
> correct_sound = nil
> end
> Sound.play(correct_sound)
> end
>
> good luck
>
> On Dec 3, 1:39 am, "Bill Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Nellboy,
>
> > Nellboy wrote:
> > > i'd be looking at the sequence of events from the
> > > time it's first triggered, and in what order the sound
> > > is loaded...
>
> > I'm not sure what you mean by 'order the sound is loaded'. Order relative
> > to what? I'm looking at the js execution in FF. The double dinging is
> > intermittent now and I haven't been able to isolate the cause yet. When it
> > starts, though, it can be replicated. What's really wierd is that I can put
> > a breakpoint at the beginning of the Sound.play function and the app dings
> > before it ever gets there. Then it dings again at the expected point within
> > the function.
>
> > > the way i'd approach this would to call a function
> > > which first loads the correct sound and then plays it...
>
> > Thanks much for the suggestion. It's helped. I just pulled the url string
> > out of the call to Sound.play and replaced it with a variable to which I'd
> > just assigned the string. The problem still happens, but not as much.
>
> > Any other ideas are very, very welcome.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
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