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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: I know I am griping, but I am under a deadline!!!
Message-ID: <634.27b9099a@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 13:40:41 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.054846.22987@engin.umich.edu>, baronz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Aaron L Richards) writes:
> 	Not to many postings ago, I reported that mouse interrupts seemed
> to be functionally disabled, even if not graphically so (The hit boxes
> defined still show on the screen, even if theyy do not function)
> I have experimented with it some more and find it to be true in a 
> number of tests that I have run.

I have used AV and interupt icons do work.  You noted at the bottom
of your posting that you are using 1.31 of AmigaVision.  I shudder as
1.31 has some terrible problems, one of them being corruption of your
flow file if you move icons too much.  Your Amiga dealer has been
given a update to 1.53g and I _strongly_ urge you to get this update.

> 
> 	I have found another error not documented in the AV manual,
> that occurred while I was testing the mouse interrupts in Amiga Vision.
> If you have the synthesized voice reading a file (I was in this case having it read
> s:startup-sequence) and have the mouse interrupt occur and show a 
> graphic image, Amiga Vision will pop up a screen that says something to 
> the effect of ERROR!!!  Voice Active!.

The error Voice Active means that you attempted to use sound while a 
sound was in progress.  You should when processing a interupt, stop
the current sound and then use your new sound.

I _wish_ that AV would return a error code to the program or something
besides that nasty requestor, and this has been communicated to 
Commodore. :-)

>      When I hit the OK button on this incredibly informative requester,
> it gave me another requester asking me if I wanted to continue the
> presentation or abort.
> 
> I looked up the ERROR!!! Voice Active! error in the manual.  Or tried
> to anyway.  There is a beautiful list of errors in Appendix A,
> but it doesn't say anythig about the Voice active error.

Lou Wallace of AmigaWorld has a book out that I think is a "must get"
from what I have heard about it.
 
The AmigaVision manual is not bad, but it is sometimes difficult to
find things.

> 
> 	These errors kind of take the pizzaz out of AmigaVision for
> me.  If it sounds like I am making simple, fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>  (sorry, modem just freaked 0ut 0n me, n0pe... the 0h key is freezing)
> 
> brainless mistakes, tell me.  If my mistake was buyr%ng
> Amiga Visi0n, let me kn0w.  
> 
> PS  my AV versi0n is 1.31.

Get your upgrade... your code is at stake! ;-)

> 
> (313) 761-7871 Eve
> (313) 763-4563 Day
> 
> 
> --
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> *       (Michigan's Amiga Computer Resource Organization)           * 
> *	Senior Computer Consultant -> Organizational Studies Lab    *
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> *	baronz@caen.engin.umich.edu 			   	    *
> * 	Aaron_l._Richards.ubmts.cc.umich.edu		   	    *

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