Audio chopped off with player filename change

[Klaus Major]

Hi Scott,

> Finally changing to 2.4 and 2.4.1, but am regretting it a bit.  Audio 
> and
> animation is an integral of my project.  Here's the problem.
>
> I make use of alot of short sound clips by changing the filename, eg.
>
> set the filename of player "sndeffect" to "sound1"
>
> But every other sound that is played the beginning of the sound clip is
> chopped off.  This only happens with changes to the filename of the 
> sound
> clip.  If the Filename of the player was never changed the sound will 
> be find
> each time the Play or Start command is used.  ONly with changes to 
> filename
> will this phenonemon occur.  Buffering didn't help.  Setting the 
> filename to
> "empty" didn't help.  This has to be a bug.
> I'm using a mac.
>
> scott

I had big success on a mac after putting a tiny "wait" command into my 
handler.

...
   set the filename of player 1 to empty
    wait 5
   set the filename of player 1 to ...
...

give it t try, it worked for me.


Regards


Klaus Major
kmajor at metascape.org