Problem with recording in standalone application

[mlapl1]

Dear All,

When I use "record sound file "student.aif" " and then make a standalone application, the recording does not seem to start immediately and the students have to wait up to 4 or 5 seconds to begin the recording to make sure to capture all they want. Otherwise they get a truncated file where the beginning is chopped off. This happens in the standalone.

There are further delays at the end of the recording when the stop command is issued as the system appears to go into never-never land for a while as it closes/copies the new file etc...

This is annoying to some degree and it also appears to be system dependent. I enclose below the script of the button which does the work. As you can see it does a number of things but I would not have thought that the load on the system would have been significant. I understand that runrev uses QT to record/playback etc. maybe this has something to do with it. I would prefer a Windows solution and I may try to use mci
commands which I have seen used with runrev (though I cannot remember where it was exactly) but that could limit the portability of the application.

on mouseUp
if the label of me is "Record" then
record sound file "student.aif"
set filename of player "student" to empty
set the label of me to "Stop"
set the backgroundcolor of me to "red"

else
set the label of me to "Record"
set the backgroundcolor of me to 213,170,194
stop recording
end if
end mouseUp

Thanks a lot for your help.

Andrew