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From: taylorj@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard Improvements
Message-ID: <575taylorj@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 04:22:05 GMT
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That reminds me of another minor feature that would be nice.  We have done
things in HyperCard that are timed to coincide with music.  The problem is that
on large sounds, the load time is different on different machines (i.e. the
sound starts playing a lot sooner on a Mac IIcx with a hard disk than on a Mac
Plus with a floppy).  It would help a whole lot if a new result were added to
the "the sound" function to indicate the sound is loading.  I.e. the results
of "the sound" after a command like "play mySound" would be something like
"loading"
"loading"
"mySound"
"mySound"
"mySound"
"done"
"done"
...
This way a script would be able to tell pretty closely when the sound actually
began playing.

If anyone is interested, I have managed to solve some of this problem by using
an XCMD to set the volume to 0, play the sound (thus loading it into memory),
then setting the volume back up and playing it.  Horrible kludge, but it helps!

Jim Taylor
Microcomputer Support for Curriculum
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