Hi Kay, Sorry for the delayed reply, been too busy getting the filename thing working.
I'm using LC 6.6.2 and the controller works fine there (except see my comments below). I just tried exactly the same stack with 7.0.1 and confirm what you experienced, nothing plays. I'm using mp3 files. Filename of the controller looks exactly the same as in 6.6.2. I guess I should file a bug report. I guess that answers my question on how to handle unicode for this project in 7.0 - don't bother! >From my limited experience with the controller, it doesn't seem to be a well designed control. First thing I noticed is that if you set its filename to something invalid, all the controls disappear and you're left with a white rectangle. I also could not find where an error like that can be captured. More importantly, if you set the filename to empty, the same thing happens. Seems like empty should mean there's nothing to play, none of the controller buttons work. It seems strange that there's no way to get the state of the player, by which I mean whether it's playing, paused, or stopped. There should be a property for something as basic as that. I ended setting my own custom property in the playerStarted,playerPaused, and playerStopped message handlers. There's no way to tell which button in the controller has been clicked. The playerStarted and playerpaused messages handle some of that, but I couldn't find a way to tell if the fast forward/reverse buttons were clicked and had to write my own handler to figure that out based on the clickLoc and the rectangle enclosing those buttons. There are no next/previous buttons. I understand that the player has no concept of track management but those are pretty standard buttons and should be optionally available along with messages that are sent when they are clicked. I attempted to use the callbacks property to send me a message every second so I could update the current play time on the screen. Either I was doing something wrong (there was no error message) or the callbacks don't work. I ended up writing a handler that did the update using the currentTime of the player and sending the message to itself every1 second and canceling the message when the playyer paused or stopped. If this wasn't just a homegrown product for my family, I'd not be using the built in controller. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > > > I'm not > > using LC 7 yet but I managed to get around that one. > > > > > Pete, thanks for the shell 'mount' pointer. I didn't get it to work first > try but I'm sure it will be the solution. > > What version of LC are you using. I've not done anything with Players in LC > so I've no clue. I created a new stack in 7.0.1, dragged the player object > over, it looked normal, it played the demo RunRev mp4 OK. I then changed > the fileName to an mp3 and no matter what I couldn't get any music. So I > thought maybe it was an LC 7 thing, so I tried LC 6.6.5. New stack, drag > the player object on to it and it looks all broken. The object seems to be > in two separate parts - a empty box and offset to that a blue box 4 times > the size. It doesn't play the RunRev Demo movie or music - it appears to be > completely unusable to me. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
