Your only other option is to get a player that supports audio that
runs as an external process and start it up with the "open process"
command. Unfortunately, you'll have to either accept playing the
movie in its own window, or hack the source code so that the program
will play into a windowId passed on the command line (pass the stack's
windowId property).
The current version of XAnim supports audio. From the latest
announcement:
XAnim Rev 2.69.7.8 has just been released(02May95).
ftp.shell.portal.com:/pub/podlipec/xanim26978.tar.Z Unix compressed
ftp.shell.portal.com:/pub/podlipec/xanim26978.tar.gz GNU zipped
> 2. In my window, I have a row of buttons arranged across the top
> and my text area immediately below it. I want to use the special
> effects of having the text page scroll to the left or right when the
> user clicks on the right or left arrow. Problem is I only want the
> text area to scroll not the whole window. Is there an easy way to
> do this? I think one way I can do it is instead of having multiple
> cards, I'll just have one card with multiple text areas on top of one
> another and do a hide and show whenever appropriate. But I don't
> think I'll be able to use the scroll left or right special effects
> if I do this.
Your assessment of the situation is correct. The only way to do this
is to store the text in different fields on the same card and then
move the fields slowly into position in a loop to do the scrolling.
For example, here's the script that makes the sun rise in the demo
stack. The numbers in field "buffer-sun" were generated by writing a
script that put the mouseLoc & return after the field, and then
dragging the mouse along the path we wanted to see:
put the number of lines in field "buffer-sun" into locCount
repeat with i = locCount down to 1
set the loc of image "sun" to line i of field "buffer-sun"
end repeat
For 2.0 we're considering enhancing the "show" command so that you
could things like "show object with visual effect scroll right" since
locking the screen, showing an object, and then unlocking with visual
effect doesn't look right when using the scroll effect.
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