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Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:23 am**

Hi there,

I try to build an player with looping, but the looping should wait a few seconds befor starting the song angain.

So I added a player to my card and put the folloing code in thi splayer element:

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on playerFinished
   if the hilite of button chk_effects1 is true then
      wait for 3 seconds
      set the currentTime of player "player_effectsslot1" to zero
         start player "player_effectsslot1"
   else

   end if
end playerFinished

Now the player repeats the songs but did not wait the given time of 3 seconds before repeating it. I use version 6.7 (DP 4)

Thanks for your help

Benny

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:16 pm**

Hi Benny,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. Is this on the desktop or mobile platform?

3. "playerfinished" is mobile only!

4. If you do not have an ELSE case, no need to use ELSE

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...
if the hilite of button "chk_effects1" is true then
   wait for 3 seconds
   ## ...
end if
...

5. ALWAYS use quotes around object names!
-> player "name of player"

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:26 pm**

Hello Klaus,

thanks for your fast answer and your useful hints

1) I did a mistake ... I thought this was for desktop use also ... but after a short look into the dictionary I saw that this is only for mobile platform

So I have now no idea how to get my code working for desktop use.

How can a do a looping with a certain delay?

Greetings Benny

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:33 pm**

Hi Benny,

on the desktop you can use the "playstopped" message of the player!
Put this into the players script:

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on playerStopped

  ## I ususally avoid (more or less) long IF THEN END IFs ;-)
  if the hilite of button "chk_effects1" = FALSE then
     exit to top
  end if

  wait 3 secs
  set the currentTime of player "player_effectsslot1" to 0
  start player "player_effectslot1"
end playerStopped

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:51 pm**

Hi Benny,
If you are new to liveCode you should not be using a dp version. go here:
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/
And get the latest "stable" release.
dp (Developer Preview) may have bugs and instability.

Simon

Posted: **Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:10 pm**

Hi there,

@SImon

Thanks for this advice I now use the latest stable Version 6.6.2

@Klaus

Thanks for this code example. But is still do not work. I tried to debug it but I do not find any mistake.

If I set a Stop Point to debug at the on playerStopped I recognizes that the player stopped, i f I click at next step the code hilight the if condition and than an the next step jumps one line up and do not use the if condition. But I have no idea where the problem is.

Maybe you have another hint for me

EDIT:
Ok my mistake the correct message to wait for is playStopped not playerStopped

Now everything works just fine

Thanks Benny

Posted: **Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:47 pm**

Oh, yes, PLAYSTOPPED, my fault, sorry!

Glad you got it working!

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