Triggering Events At Specific Player Times?

[jpatten]

Hi All...

Is it possible to trigger events at specific times during the playback of a movie or an audio file in iOS? I had looked at an older CallBacks tutorial but callbacks are not iOS compatible.

I also noticed there is a mobileControlGet (player_id, currentTime) but I was not sure how I could report out that currentTime while a media played along. My original plan was checking the currentTime while the media played and then acting on the reported time when it was at specific times.

Is there an example stack of using currentTime in this manner? Or is reporting the currentTime, while a piece of media plays not possible?

Thank you!

[Jellicle]

Try something like this:

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on playmovie
  mobileControlDo "myPlayerControl", "play"
  send "trackCurrentTime" to this card in 1 second
end playmovie

on trackCurrentTime
  put mobileControlGet ("myPlayerControl", "currenttime") into currentMovieTime
  switch
    case currentMovieTime = 5
      show image "5 seconds"
      break
    case currentMovieTime = 10
      show image "10 seconds"
      break
  end switch
  send "trackCurrentTime" to this card in 1 second
end trackCurrentTime

Gerry

[Jellicle]

Oh and put that code in the card script.

Gerry

[Simon]

I wonder if the case should be padded?
case min(5.05,max(currentMovieTime,4.95))
because of currentMovieTime is in millisecs.

Simon
Edit: Nah that isn't it.
Just a plain old
case currentMovieTime >=4.95 and currentMovieTime <=5.05

[Jellicle]

Simon

Shhhhhh. Leave her/him something to work out on her/his own

Gerry

[jpatten]

Thanks Gerry and Simon!

I just took the easy way out and rounded

put the round of (mobileControlGet ("iosControl", "currenttime")/1000) & " seconds" into cd fld "videoTime"

Cheers!