Re: lingo-l how many sound levels in MX?
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:23:59 +0200, Mats =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leid=F6?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After trying a couple of sound commands in Director MX in OS X I stumbled on something strange. If I have my system sound level cranked up to the max, Director reports the soundLevel=15 instead of 7, as I thought it would be. (I tried it in the message window and inside an exitFrame-script on a text member on stage - same result). If I try to set the soundLevel to 15, in the message window with a simple set the soundLevel=15 command, and then check the soundLevel, Director has set it to 7. That seems to be the usual Dir behaviour, supposing that 7 is still the maximum sound level. Looking at the system sound level it has now gone down a bit from the max level, to about 3/4:s of maximum. If I then move the system volume slider again up to the max and check Directors¥soundLevel it is back up on 15. I am using OS X 10.2.4 and Director MX. Anyone else have this problem? Vhat is happening here? Very weird, but it rings little bells in my head about QuickTime which can 'overdrive' audio to a little more than 200% of original volume. (You can access this feature in the standard controller by shift clicking on the volume control - alas this is broken 'on stage', but it works in Director's QuickTime window or in a web browser). Maybe MX is hooking up with OSX's standard audio features and getting stuck somewhere. In the old days, it was the Mac sound manager, which did not offer 'overdrive', now it's QuickTime. Coincidence? Brennan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l how many sound levels in MX?
Yep, this is a bit strange. For your convenience and mine, I have
uploaded a simple example movie with a volume slider with which you
can change the soundlevel from within Shockwave/Director. It also
reacts to a change of the system sound level. There is a text member
on stage too, for printing out the soundLevel value that Director
reads.
http://www.digitalakuten.com/kul/soundlevel/volume_slider_orig.html
I would not say this is a particularly good slider, but at least it
works for me - hopefully for you too. I gave the slider the unusual
range of 0 - 15... Feel free to try it out and to download the
director movie if you want to see for yourself that there is no
deception in the lingo code... Just a bit of quirky undocumented
programming au Mats.
If the Quicktime 'audio overdrive' has been there for such a long
time, why would it affect Director now when it hasn´t done so before?
Or has it?
At 8:23 PM +0200 3/31/03, you wrote:
...
Very weird, but it rings little bells in my head about QuickTime which can
'overdrive' audio to a little more than 200% of original volume.
I believe it's up to 300% - there are two lines indicating where
100% 200% are.
(You can access this feature in the standard controller by shift clicking on
the volume control - alas this is broken 'on stage', but it works in
Director's QuickTime window or in a web browser).
Maybe MX is hooking up with OSX's standard audio features and getting stuck
somewhere.
certainly sounds odd
In the old days, it was the Mac sound manager, which did not offer
'overdrive', now it's QuickTime. Coincidence?
What old days are you speaking about?
- the volume overdrive feature has been in QT since version 1.5 at
least ('94).
And QuickTime's sound engine has ='d the Mac Sound Manager since then
the QT controller just adds a bonus feature (except when a QT sprite
= 'shows controller')
hth
-Buzz
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Re: lingo-l how many sound levels in MX?
At 8:23 PM +0200 3/31/03, you wrote:
...
Very weird, but it rings little bells in my head about QuickTime which can
'overdrive' audio to a little more than 200% of original volume.
I believe it's up to 300% - there are two lines indicating where 100%
200% are.
(You can access this feature in the standard controller by shift clicking on
the volume control - alas this is broken 'on stage', but it works in
Director's QuickTime window or in a web browser).
Maybe MX is hooking up with OSX's standard audio features and getting stuck
somewhere.
certainly sounds odd
In the old days, it was the Mac sound manager, which did not offer
'overdrive', now it's QuickTime. Coincidence?
What old days are you speaking about?
- the volume overdrive feature has been in QT since version 1.5 at least ('94).
And QuickTime's sound engine has ='d the Mac Sound Manager since then
the QT controller just adds a bonus feature (except when a QT sprite
= 'shows controller')
hth
-Buzz
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lingo-l how many sound levels in MX?
After trying a couple of sound commands in Director MX in OS X I stumbled on something strange. If I have my system sound level cranked up to the max, Director reports the soundLevel=15 instead of 7, as I thought it would be. (I tried it in the message window and inside an exitFrame-script on a text member on stage - same result). If I try to set the soundLevel to 15, in the message window with a simple set the soundLevel=15 command, and then check the soundLevel, Director has set it to 7. That seems to be the usual Dir behaviour, supposing that 7 is still the maximum sound level. Looking at the system sound level it has now gone down a bit from the max level, to about 3/4:s of maximum. If I then move the system volume slider again up to the max and check Directors´soundLevel it is back up on 15. I am using OS X 10.2.4 and Director MX. Anyone else have this problem? Vhat is happening here? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
