Happy, Happy 5th of December: by sheer chance I stumbled on how to do
this . . .
In fact the whole thing is dead easy (not, admittedly clear from the
Dictionary).
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=30258&p=161069#p161069
Best, Richmond.
On 5/12/17 12:47 am, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Hi - perhaps due to not picking the right search terms in the documentation, I
am confused about playing audio files in LC 8. What I want seems quite simple
to me: I want the user to click a button which will cause a single MP3 file to
play. While it plays I may or may not want to switch cards or use visual
effects. When it stops, I want to take back control and move the program onto
something else.
It appears that I have to use a player object to play MP3s, since the “play”
comment will only play aiffs. OK, so I can create a player object, but I want
to embed my MP3 file into it (since I have no need to play more than one file),
I want to start it, and I want the option to do stuff while it’s playing, and I
certainly want to do stuff when it stops.
The documentation is not good on this - there is no indication as to whether
you can embed files (if you can’t, what would the path to a file included in
the program look like - I can only see paths referring to files in my
development environment)? There is one reference in Beginner’s Guide to a “play
stopped” message, but there isn’t one in the User Guide. My old friend “wait
until the sound is done” seems to have died of old age. How do I know when the
sound is finished, or alternatively how can I know if it’s still playing?
Can anyone explain what I’m supposed to do, or (just as good) point me to the
right bit of LC documentation?
TIA
Graham
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