Windows Player Won't Play What Plays On Mac

[Martin Baxter]

Iden Rosenthal wrote:
> I have a one field one card stack with three sentences of text. I want 
> to highlight each sentence (well ideally each word as it is read but 
> that I am leaving for right now) as it is read. What I have written 
> works fine on the Mac using the Player for Mac. It doesn't play on the 
> Windows player. In an earlier incarnation of this stack I was just 
> selecting the text to be read. That version read the text aloud in 
> Windows but it didn't select any of the text except the last sentence. 
> Now when I am trying to set the foregroundColor of the text to be read 
> the Windows player not only doesn't set the color, it doesn't even read 
> the text.
> 
> Is there a good reference for how to write for the Windows player, i.e. 
> what works and what doesn't?
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put fld "maintext" into theText
>   set the itemDelimiter to "."
>   repeat with k = 1 to the number of items in theText
>     put item k of theText into theSentence
>     set the foregroundColor of item k of fld "maintext" to blue
>     try
>       revspeak theSentence
>     catch theError
>       beep
>     end try
>     wait until revIsSpeaking() is false
>     set foregroundColor of item k of fld "maintext" to black
>   end repeat
> 
>   set the itemDelimiter to ","
> end mouseUp

Iden,

Maybe the traversalon of the button is true. On windows that will steal 
focus from the field when the button is clicked, as buttons can get 
focus on Windows but not on Mac. Which might cause what you describe.
If so, try setting the traversalon property of the button to false.

Martin Baxter