cancel a wait

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Chris,

Instead of using a 'wait until the sound is "done" with messages",  
could you just set a flag to true on playstarted and set it to false  
on playstopped?
And use this flag (a local script var, a custom prop, etc.) to act as  
you want it to work?

Le 16 janv. 08 à 18:27, Chris Sheffield a écrit :

> Is there any way to cancel a wait command?
>
> I've got a strange thing happening, and I'm just not sure how to  
> get around it. In the app, the user has the ability to move back  
> and forth between two certain cards. When the first card opens,  
> some audio instructions start playing. After starting the player, I  
> have a wait..with messages command to wait until the audio is done,  
> and then of course the handler continues after that. If you move to  
> that second card, the audio of the first card stops playing, and  
> the second card displays and the audio there starts playing. This  
> all works fine the first time. Here's the problem. If you go back  
> to the first card before that wait...with messages finishes, then  
> quickly forward to the second card again, things start to go wrong,  
> as the wait's start stacking up or something, and certain things on  
> the second card appear to not respond correctly, like an animation  
> that plays. And there is also a field on the second card for  
> entering text that doesn't respond until the wait's "catch up".
>
> So I'm wondering, if a user moves to that second card before the  
> audio of the first card finishes, is there some way to cancel that  
> wait...with messages? Does that make sense? Let me know if I need  
> to clarify.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Sheffield
> Read Naturally, Inc.



Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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