which version to use for using player with mp3 files?
I'm considering a project that will be pretty straightforward, but it will have lots of external mp3 files that I've always managed with a player before. I've got various versions of 6.x and 7 I could work with, but with quicktime deprecated (?) and a new player object I'm wondering which version people have found most reliable for playing sound files. It'll need to work on Mac and Windows, no plans for mobile. Thanks! Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
mp3 files not playing on Windows
A client's customer (using Windows) had ordered two modules of a series. Both come with their own set of mp3 files in a folder named media. The two modules use the same code for figuring path names and playing sounds. We've had no problems in either module with other customers, but this one reports that sounds play properly in one of the modules, but not the other. He has QuickTime installed, and we've ruled out non-standard characters in the path to the sound files. What seems strange is that the sounds play in one module, but not another. I suggested he move the problematic module to the same location as the one that works as expected, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Anybody have any ideas of what else to check? Thanks! Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
re: Windows 7: Chinese characters replacing quotes apostrophes in English text
A little progress: the customer reports that switched system locale from Simplified Chinese to English (US) to see some magic, as a computer magazine I had once read said it might work sometimes. It works! Those strange Chinese characters are gone and even the audio bars appear. But the ebook window stops operating everytime I turn from Page.12 to Page.13. It stucks for several seconds. After the locale switching, some of my Chinese programs don't work well any more. One program gets the Chinese charaters on its menu blurred, as is shown in attachment screenshot 3.1. Another program has no Chinese characters on the interface, which is presented in screenshot 3.2. ..so it looks like we should recommend that people switch system locale to English when using the module.. This one was created on April 14 2013 so it was probably Livecode 5.something - not sure unfortunately. Anyone have any idea whether trying again with 6.5.2 might help? thanks, Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Windows 7: Chinese characters replacing quotes apostrophes in English text
A module which has been problem-free on most computers is showing odd behavior on one client's computer: Chinese characters appear replacing an apostrophe + s, or a contraction with an apostrophe, in the English text, and also where there are opening closing quotes. m-dashes also aren't displaying properly. The text was pasted into Livecode from an rtf document and is displayed in the Charis SIL font, which our installer installs (other parts of the text make clear the font is installing normally). It's not editable or even selectable, and the module doesn't involve any htmltext or unicodetext routines. One thing different on this system may be that the user is running Windows 7 Ultimate English version, with Chinese language support. Any ideas on what's happening, or how to fix it? thanks, Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
multiple child nodes in xml
I’m stuck on getting the values in some multiple child nodes in xml… trying to base the code on the sample at http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/7011-how-to-read-in-data-from-an-xml-file . I’m getting the list of prompts that I need, but I can’t get the list of answers: one way I’ve tried gets the first answer only for each question, three times; another try (commented out) gave blanks for the answers. Am I missing something basic in how to set up the inner repeat loop, or the syntax for getting the answers in revXMLNodeContents? My xml file looks like this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? quiz items item promptWhat is the capital of Russia?/prompt answers answerMoscow./answer answerOmsk./answer answerTomsk./answer /answers /item item promptHow's the weather?/prompt answers answerPretty cold./answer answerNot bad./answer answerToo hot./answer /answers /item /items /quiz Here’s what the command is like now: private command processQuizTree pTree local tItems put revXMLChildNames(pTree, quiz/items, return, item, true) into tItems answer tItems is tItems --answer tItems[1] is tItems[1] --answer line 1 of tItems is line 1 of tItems local tListOfPrompts repeat for each line tItem in tItems put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, quiz/items/ tItem /prompt) into tCurrentPrompt answer tCurrentPrompt is tCurrentPrompt put tCurrentPrompt return after tListOfPrompts --get the child names of the answers node put revXMLChildNames(pTree, quiz/items/item/answers, return, answer, true) into tAnswers answer tAnswers is tAnswers local tListOfAnswers repeat for each line tAnswer in tAnswers --gets first answer only, 3 times?? put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, quiz/items/ tItem tAnswer /answers/answer) into tCurrentAnswer answer tCurrentAnswer is tCurrentAnswer put tCurrentAnswer return after tListOfAnswers --gets blank item? 3 times --put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, quiz/items/ tItem tAnswer /answers) into tCurrentAnswer --answer tCurrentAnswer is tCurrentAnswer --put tCurrentAnswer return after tListOfAnswers end repeat end repeat delete the last char of tListOfItems --trailing return answer tListOfPrompts is tListOfPrompts answer tListOfAnswers is tListOfAnswers end processQuizTree -thanks for any help - Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
some sounds not playing on Windows 8
We've got a project that involves many sounds, all accessed through players. On most cards the controller is visible; on two cards with shorter sounds, we have small buttons that set the filename of an invisible player and start it playing. It's been working well on Mac, XP, and Windows 7. We've just had a report from a user on Windows 8 that sounds are working properly only on the cards with buttons and the invisible player. On cards with controller bars, the sound doesn't work (haven't been able to get more detail as to what exactly does/doesn't happen). I haven't been able to get confirmation that the customer has QuickTime installed, though I would have assumed that if it's not, no sounds would play at all. Anyone have any ideas why the controller might not work on Windows 8, though sounds played by an invisible controller do work? -Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
re: another article achieved...
Great article. I sent a note about it to MacSurfer and they've linked to it from their Press Release section - hopefully that'll help with visibility. Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
re QuickTime issue with 5.5.2 (Mountain Lion)
It worked after I UNchecked Controller in the inspector and CHECKED it again!? Thanks Klaus - I tried this a few times but couldn't get any consistent behavior.. guess I'll report it later today. best Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
QuickTime issue with 5.5.2 (Mountain Lion)?
Can anyone else confirm what I'm seeing.. 1 drag a quicktime player onto a card 2 click the button in the player's inspector to select a file; .mp3 files are greyed out and can't be selected, even when the option 'All Files' is selected 3 typing in the name of an .mp3 file in the inspector leaves just the outline of the player, with no control bar 4 clicking the button in the inspector and choosing a .mov file, instead of .mp3, does seem to load the file, but the control bar doesn't respond Is it just me.. ? or are there any workarounds? otherwise this is a big Blocker. Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
rev cgi at Bluehost: libX11.so.6 not found
I'm trying to setup a registration system using the old rev engine (linux) and cgi scripts. The user fills in a form on a web page, clicks a button, and the script should start the engine, do some tasks, and display some information returned by the script. There are no problems in testing on my site, which is hosted by on-rev - it all works great. The client is on Bluehost, where we keep getting errors; the webpage shows [an error occurred while processing this directive] and the cPanel error log shows lccgi: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Bluehost support has had me install some php pears and add some include_path statements in the php.ini file; this didn't help. I've also tried putting a dummy text file named 'libX11.so.6' in the cgi-bin folder where my script is, and in the php folder, and in the home directory, which also hasn't helped. One support person suggested the problem was that they have 64-bit libraries, and libX11.so.6 is 32-bit. Does anyone have experience with a rev cgi at Bluehost? I've spent hours on this would be grateful for any suggestions.. Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
