Thanks, that’s a start - I will look at the dictionary. I suppose the callbacks rely on one analysing how long each line/word takes the performer to say. It’s a lot of work, but there’s no way around it since potentially every line takes a different length of time to recite. If it’s too much work, I guess I can just display the whole text and have one callback at the end of each recording. Maybe that is really the practical solution for a large body of work (say all the Shakespeare sonnets, for example).
Anyway thanks for the hint. Graham > On 12 Feb 2020, at 12:16, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > You will have to use the callbacks property of the player to do what you want > to do. The callbacks list would be your cues. From the dictionary: > > The callbacks of a player <> is a list of callbacks, one per line. Each > callback consists of an interval number, a comma, and a message <> name. > > > Regards > Tore Nilsen > > >> 12. feb. 2020 kl. 11:25 skrev Graham Samuel via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> Folks, forgive my ignorance, but it’s a long time since I considered the >> following and wondered what pitfalls there are. >> >> I have in mind a project where a recording of someone reading a poetry text >> (“old fashioned” poetry in metrical lines) needs to be synchronised to the >> display text itself on the screen, ideally so that a cursor or highlight >> would move from word to word with the speaker, although that would almost >> certainly involve too much work for the developer (me), or at least >> highlight lines as they are being spoken. I see that one would inevitably >> have to add cues to the spoken text file to fire off the highlighting, which >> is indeed an unavoidable amount of work, but can it be done at all in LC? >> For example, what form would the cues take? >> >> TIA >> >> Graham >> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
