My Student's Problem

[Phil Davis]

Hi Judy,

Alternate solution: To make sure I'm not creating unintended 
consequences and with 'wait' statements, I tend to let messages tell my 
commands when to fire if possible.

So your student could use something like this to move to card 2 after 
the movie finishes:

on openStack
   play videoclip "lab2intro.mov"
end openStack

on playStopped
   go cd 2
end playStopped

This way he doesn't need to know how long the movie is.

Phil Davis

Judy Perry wrote:
> Well,  here's what my student has to say about it, fixing it, with my
> comments below:
> 
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> 
> "Today I found a problem with my lab 2 where the second card with
> animation would not show up after getting called from card 1.  You
> said that you would post it to your forums or whatever to get help.
> I was able to debug the problem myself and here is the solution in
> case someone else runs into the same problem.
> 
> The problem is with the play movie command.  Once the move you are
> playing ends, the play command does not terminate correctly.  To fix
> this you need to tell it to stop playing.
> 
> play moviefile "amovie"
> pause length of movie
> play stop moviefile "amovie"
> 
> Hope this helps."
> 
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> 
> Okay, so he gets an A+++ for solving it, but I do not see this "solution"
> in the docs for the  "play" entry.
> 
> WHAT???
> 
> Any ideas?  Retreating with egg on face...
> 
> Judy