I just verified the problem behavior you describe above. This is very irritating
Thanks so much for testing, and yes, it is thoroughly irritating. It cost me hours.
Here is one workaround that may or may not work for you: use imported audioClips and play them as loops:
play mySound.wav looping
Good idea, and probably would work, only in my real project, I don't really want a loop. I change filenames to load different audio files. The loop test was just a good demonstration of the bug.
But -- Brian's suggested method works (bravo!) It is simple and I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it myself, though I claim frustration and lost time as an excuse. Here's what I did:
put the duration of player 1 into theDur
put (theDur/the timeScale of player 1) into theSecs
start player 1
send "movieStop" to me in theSecs secondsAnd then there is a "movieStop" handler like this:
on movieStop playNextSegment -- includes the above script bit end movieStop
So I'm back in business. I've bug reported the problem though.
OK, now I just tried a test stack in Rev 2.1 and it appears to work correctly.
It *does* work correctly in the Rev IDE, which is what stumped me for some of those many hours. If you suspend the IDE, then it doesn't work any more, just like it doesn't work in MC. And in standalones, where the Rev IDE doesn't exist, it also doesn't work.
There is something in the Rev IDE that forces a playstopped message to get through but I haven't been able to figure out what it is. In the interests of time, I'm going with Brian's work-around.
> So what you might try is using Rev's latest engine with MC. I
> think you figured out how to do this already right? Has anyone established
> a definitive process for using the latest Rev engine with the MC IDE?
I've been updating to and using the latest Rev engine with the MC IDE with each new release. I work with both programs and I like to keep them in parity. For all platforms except OS X you only need to rename the engine and drop it into your MC folder. For OS X, you rename the engine to "MetaCard" and drop it into the MacOS folder inside the application bundle.
There are enough improvements in the newer engines that I like to keep current. But this business where something works in Rev's IDE but not with the raw engine is a puzzler.
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