player hints

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Jon  wrote:

> Is there any way to get a message from a Player every second, or so, so
> that I can put up a message indicating the current position?  I see the
> Callbacks property, but I don't want to load it with 1000 entries if I
> can avoid it.  I suppose I could enter one value and then modify it when
> the event occurs for the first time.

Instead of using the player itself to do this, you could use a script.  For
example, in your card script, the following would show the elapsed seconds
of playback:

 on trackPlayer
   put (the currentTime of player "myPlayer" div 600) into fld "timer"
   send "trackPlayer" to me in (1 - (the long seconds mod 1)) seconds
 end trackPlayer

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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