I would say playstopped is unreliable, I would suggest:
if duration of player "Player" - currentTime of player "Player" < 30
then
itsOver
end if
On Jul 16, 2007, at 12:06 AM, David Glasgow wrote:
I was just putting the finishing touches to a product for a client
when, on impulse, I 'sexed it up' with a little .mov in the
standalone splashscreen. I use playstopped to trigger showing the
splashscreen proper. This works fine on Mac, reliably running
wherever I place the enclosing folder. The same can't be said for
Windows. With QT installed, some boxes run it fine, and some
don't. It sometimes behaves as if the filename of the movie isn't
valid even though it is always contained within the same folder,
and double clicking the movie launches QT as expected. I don't
have time to work out why this is the case, so I decided to just
skip the movie if it isn't going to run, and show the buttons and
information fields which form the business end of the
splashscreen. This has proved more difficult than I expected. I
use Studio, so I can't debug in detail on Windows.
I tried checking 'the movie', but was surprised to obtain 'done'
way before the movie has stopped playing, and using the done
message to move on in the splash screen causes the movie to appear
and then quickly disappear on the Mac. I thought about 'try-catch'
but I am not sure what conditions I would be testing for. I tried
sidestepping the issue by importing a videoclip in AVI format, but
the QT codecs for AVI are gruesome. Also, I couldn't make the
videoclip play predictably at a specific location, however
specified. It always appeared significantly offset.
So this isn't about testing to see if QT is installed, it is (I
think) about testing whether a player object is able to do its
stuff, and if not, smoothly moving on with business. Any suggestions?
(This all goes to confirm rule 437 of software development: "Never
sex up a splashscreen on impulse, especially if you have just
promised to deliver the product within the week")
Oh yes. Using 2.7.4 on Mac.
Best Wishes,
David Glasgow
Carlton Glasgow Partnership
http://www.i-psych.co.uk
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