Help with videoclips

[Geoff Canyon]

At 12:23 PM -0500 1/15/02, Charles Silverman wrote:
>on mouseup
>  play videoclip "tempfile1"
>  repeat
>    if movie() = "done" then exit repeat
>    end repeat
>end mouseup
>
>I'm running off a Powerbook Pismo with 384 megs lots of hard drive space and
>Mac OS 9.2.
>
>The file is a quicktime audio recording that I'm saving as a videoclip.
>I was able to get this working earlier. I'm trying to create my own
>"callbacks" approach for the embedded audio files. Any insights/help
>appreciated.
>
>Here's another, slightly different problem. If I record and then import in
>the same handler, it doesn't work.
>
>on mouseup
>  get flushevents("all")
>  put the seconds into tStart
>  record sound file "tempfile1" as "MAC3" with good quality
>  set the endvalue of scrollbar 1 to 6
>  set the thumbpos of scrollbar 1 to 0
>  repeat
>    set the thumbpos of scrollbar 1 to (the seconds - tStart)
>    if the seconds - tStart > 6 or the mouse is down then exit repeat
>  end repeat
>  stop recording
>  import videoclip from file "tempfile1"
>end mouseup

Check out the playStopped message for the first issue. In all cases, avoid using a repeat where you check the status of something. Instead, look at the send command and use the "send message to object in time" form to loop instead.

regards,

geoff