Quictime Controller Scripts Failing on Windows

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Scott, Thanks for the recommendation.

I seemed to get better results at first.  in the application already 
has applied a path to the player and the my application was open in the 
background... I downloaded the latest QT 6.5.2 for windows, installed 
and was getting better results: setting the currently time propertly 
was not stopping the player.  But i had a couple of other scripting 
issues so I went back to my Mac, fixed a few things, cleared all 
fields, including the path to the mp3 file for the player and then 
saved, zipped, went to the PC downloaded the new version of my app.

OK now... the field I have that shows the path the the file that is set 
to the player is empty and I click my button that says "Select an Audio 
file to Play" which has this script:

global theTape
on mouseUp
   put empty into fld "theTotalTime"
   answer file "Locate the sound file you want to transcribe."&\
       "(Must be playable by QuickTime)"  with "OK"
       if it is empty then exit mouseUp
   put it into theTape
   put theTape into fld "soundfile"
   set the filename of player "theTape" to theTape
   answer "Are you finished with the last one? If so, shall I clear the 
header info?" with "No" or "Yes"
   if it is "Yes" then
   clearHeader
   end if
   send postTime to this stack in 10 seconds
end mouseUp

New problem: Now, this works fine on the Mac but on the PC, the 
controller appears (finally!) but it is "quivering" blinking rapidly in 
the background and my dialog box to query the user about clearing the 
header fields for the previous transcription opens up and is frozen... 
the OK and "NO" buttons are there, but if I click them, nothing 
happens, the app is frozen.

OK, so now: one question:

--If a player is set to an MP3 on windows and QT is not installed, does 
some other Windows app try to play it? I thought Rev *only* played 
media with QT on all platforms, no matter what.


OK, now back to finding out what is causing the app to hang... I 
suspect it goes back to an old problem: Rev or QT on Windows cannot 
read the current time or timescale of a player that has not been 
started, but on the Mac, it can... so my "postTime" is causing the app 
to hang because I haven't started the player yet.... whew!

<OT-frustrated rant>How in the world MS ever convinced people to use 
windows and why more people aren't using Mac, is a total mystery... I 
guess it's just a pricing matter. we have been running 20 macs here for 
nearly 20 years ever since the first apple II come out, the amount of 
down time and wasted time caused by the platform is miniscule, but the 
moment we touch a windows machine... hours of productive time start to 
drain out the back door. </OT-frustrated rant> ;-)







On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

>
> This really sounds to me like like QuickTime is either missing from,
> disabled or broken on your Win2K system.  Perhaps a reinstall is in 
> order to
> sure.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Development & Design