highlighted text and quicktime sound files

[Klaus Major]

Hi Toma,

(wie geht's ? ;-)

> Recently, "Toma Tasovac"  wrote:
>
>> i have a text field and a prerecorded quicktime sound file of the text
>> in the text field.  i would like to have the text highlighted sentence
>> by sentence as the sound file is being played.  the pedestrian way
>> would be to divide the sound file in many smaller files, one for each
>> sentence,  but i wonder if there is another way, in which revolution
>> could tell the quicktime player which portion of the sound file to 
>> play
>> as individual sentences get highlighted.
>> what would be the most efficient way to both divide (or mark) the
>> quicktime sound files and make revolution interact with those 
>> portions?

As Scott noticed, the best way may be to let RR do the actions, but you 
will
have to tell RR when and what to do...

This might a case for (daa da datdat) "the callbacks".

> First, note the specific times that correspond to the speaking of each 
> word
> in the sound file and store these times (in a property of the field, 
> the
> player, your stack, or wherever).  When each word is clicked, set the
> currentTime of your player to the corresponding time and start the 
> player.
>
> You may be able to use the startTime and endTime properties to limit 
> the
> playback time of the player, depending on how your player is set up.
>
> See the following in the docs:
> - timeScale
> - currentTime
> - playSelection
> - startTime
> - endTime
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design

to get you started with this topic you can take a look at the 
usercontrib-section
of the RR website. Search for "The mistery of the callbacks" stack of 
me :-)

Hope that helps...

Regards


Klaus Major
k_major at os.surf2000.de