My Student's Problem

Judy Perry jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu
Fri Apr 21 13:10:30 EDT 2006


Thanks, Phil!

Judy

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Phil Davis wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > ==================================================================
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > ================================================================
> >
> > 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
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