Re: switching between movies

[Mark Talluto]

On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Aug 23, 2004, at 12:28 AM, Jason Tangen wrote:
I have two movies (both 640x480, 240 frames, ~2MB each).  I want to
allow the user to click a button to switch back and forth between the
two without delay.  Right now - I'm using the following strategy:
on keydown key
  if key = space then
    put the currentTime of player "A" into Atime
    set lockscreen to true
    hide player "A"
    set the currentTime of player "B" to Atime
    show player "B"
    start player "B"
    set lockscreen to false
  else pass keyDown
end keydown
...but this results in a rather noticeable delay between the clips.
Hi Jason,
I modified your program slightly.  The main thing I noticed was to 
take
out the lock screen.  This made things pretty snappy.  The faster the
computer, the faster the transition.  I put this code at the card 
level.

on keydown thekey
  put thekey
  if thekey = "1" then
    stop player "B"
    put the currentTime of player "B" into Atime
    hide player "B"
    set the currentTime of player "A" to Atime
    show player "A"
    start player "A"
  end if
  if thekey = "2" then
    stop player "A"
    put the currentTime of player "A" into Atime
    hide player "A"
    set the currentTime of player "B" to Atime
    show player "B"
    start player "B"
  end if
  pass keyDown
end keydown
   Speaking as an amateur with a fetish for minimizing the number of 
lines of
code, I'd be interested to see if the following modification of your 
handler
is any better or worse than your code...

on keydown thekey
  put thekey
  switch theKey
    case 1
      put "B" into OldPlay
      put "lay
  put the currentTime of player OldPlay into Atime
  hide player OldPlay
  set the currentTime of player NuPlay to Atime
  show player NuPlay
  start player NuPlay
  pass keyDown
end keydown
I took at guess and made :  put "lay   ---> put "A" into "NuPlay"
In any case, this will not toggle the videos.  It will start the first 
video and nothing more.  Hitting 1 will only restart the video.  But 
yes, it is shorter than my solution.

--
Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com
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