Utter New Boy

Damlimey · Post by **Damlimey** » Sun May 31, 2009 11:39 am

Hi all,

Utterly new to Revolution so please allow for my ignorance. I am trying to develop an audio application, to play various formats by essentially having a page of buttons. Each button can be loaded with a music track, and pressing the button plays the track.

Is this something that I can create with Revolution Studio and if it is, how do I get started?

Thanks in advance,

G

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Sun May 31, 2009 1:12 pm

Hi G
(Damlimey = funny name or self-awareness?

Just kidding!)

this sounds pretty straightforward!
Create as much (invisible?) player objects as you need and two buttons
for each player "Load..." and "Play", know what I mean?

Script of btn load:

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on mouseup

  ## Show file dialog with only the defined filetypes!
  answer file "Select an audio file:" with type "Soundfiles|aif,aiff,wav,au,mp3|"
  if it <> empty then
    set the filename of player "Your player here" to it
  end if
end mouseup

Script of btn "Play"

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on mouseup
  start player "Your player here"
end mouseup

Hope that helps.

Best from germany

Klaus

Damlimey · Post by **Damlimey** » Sun May 31, 2009 5:17 pm

Thank you for that Klaus, damlimey comes from years of working in the States, always getting called "that damn limey!" From your reply, am I right in thinking that I need a player external to anything in revolution? Is there a recommended engine for that?

Thank again,

G

mwieder · Post by **mwieder** » Sun May 31, 2009 5:31 pm

G- No, that's just the QuickTime player object in rev.