Reference sound files

michelle300 · Post by **michelle300** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:53 pm

Has anyone tried to refer to a sound file using a variable in IOS? For example:

put the short name of the current card&".wav" into soundtoplay
play specialFolderPath("engine") & "/Audio/soundtoplay"

Doesn't work for me. I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks!

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:08 pm

Hi michelle,

variable names must not be in uotes!
And you need to put parenthesis around the filename.

This will work:
...
put the short name of the current card & ".wav" into soundtoplay
play (specialFolderPath("engine") & "/Audio/" & soundtoplay)
...

Best from gemany

Klaus

ctflatt · Post by **ctflatt** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:09 pm

Klaus:

I was just going to respond to this when your response popped in...

Hilarious!

:T

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:25 pm

Well, no wonder, I'm a couple hours ahead of you

michelle300 · Post by **michelle300** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:42 pm

Thanks Klaus and ctflatt. I had tried a version that didn't use the quotes - because I thought the same thing but was getting errors from LC. I probably just had a typo I didn't notice. It is working perfectly! I really appreciate your help!

michelle300 · Post by **michelle300** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:44 pm

I posted too quickly - I just noticed this part of the comment "put parenthesis around the filename" -- That was it. Thanks again!

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