Playing audio files consecutively

[Devin Asay]

On Apr 15, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Andrew Lian -nswc wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I am sure that this problem has been solved many times but I am  
> just playing with runrev right now and am experiencing some  
> difficulty.
>
> Here is the situation:
>
> In a BUTTON I have put the following script
>
> on mouseUp
>   play audioclip "student"
>   play audioclip "master"
> end mouseUp
>
> The idea is to play the first clip followed by the second.
>
> The system omits playing the first file and cascades down to  
> playing "master".
>
> I have experimented by placing, in the button, a handler like
>
> on playStopped
>    play audioclip "master"
> end playStopped
>
> The idea is to play "student" first and wait until it is played.  
> However - this does not work either.

Marc's answer was perfect for your first question, but regarding the  
implied second question:
>
> It seems that the playStopped message is never sent or, if it is,  
> it is never read.

The playStopped message works only with player objects, not with the  
play command.

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University