wowee that is a fabulously interesting solution. excellent.
where can i get me some of that "thinking laterally" stuff...?
--bhakti
Brennan Young wrote:
>
> Interesting thread.
>
> Thinking laterally, when you make a filmloop out of the score, 'the lastChannel'
> is always the last *occupied* channel, not the lastChannel in the score.
>
> So what about this?
>
> on getHighestOccupiedChannel
>
> f = new(#filmloop)
> f.media = the score
> s = 1
>
> m = sprite(s).member
>
> sprite(s).member = f
>
> updatestage -- important!!!
>
> tell sprite s
> highestOccupied = the lastChannel
> end tell
>
> -- clean up...
> sprite(s).member = m
> f.erase()
>
> return highestOccupied
> end
>
> This is working for me. No repeat loops, just a screen update so that you can
> 'tell' the filmloop stuff. 'Doesn't get puppeted channels though.
>
> --
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