So never mind, move along, nothing to see here. Go back to your snickering.
Red faced,
Devin
On Mar 31, 2005, at 9:16 AM, I impetuously wrote:
Okay, yesterday was a reality check for me. Since time immemorial, I have believed that 'play player "myPlayer"' and 'start player "myPlayer"' were synonymous. It may be a relic of using the old HC QuickTime external, when you used 'play movie' to start playing an external movie file. Regardless of the source, I have happily been using play player, and teaching it to my students, since Rev 1.0 ***BECAUSE IT WORKED***. Until this week. One of my students showed me a weird problem where his movie would sort of start playing--it would show a still frame of the beginning of the movie, plus pop up a text track movie that contained the name of the player object in the center of the stack window, which then would disappear. I couldn't figure out what was causing this, and finally I resorted to the dictionary to reread the play command entry, which I had read dozens of times. This time it struck me: this command has nothing to do with player objects. It is only the start command that pertains to playing movies inside players.
I suppose this could all be considered a morality play on the dangers of depending on old habits. ;-)
But now the question remains: Why does the play player form even work at all? Does it somehow resolve the reference in the player object as a virtual imported video file?
Confused,
Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University
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