player hints

[Jon]

Scott:

Excellent!  I was wondering how to do something like that!

:)

Jon


Scott Rossi wrote:

>Recently, Jon  wrote:
>
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>>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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