[squeakland] [Q] How to delay an execution of a command tile in a script

[Karl Ramberg]

On 2009-11-18 16:01, p.a.dreyfuss at excite.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Very nice this project, all done in a morph that could be given to 
> kids as a tool.
> it should be published on showcase.
> I have replaced the first demo by a solution for repeating sounds, it 
> is not pure Etoys, it uses a script written in smalltalk for getting 
> the length of the sound which is put in a variable.
>
> The rest uses what is done for delay. The timing is changed to ten 
> ticks by second and the length is in tenth of second.
>
> The script delay, is called at the end of the script 
> executeAction,initiating new cycle of delay and making executeAction 
> recursive.The sound will repeat infinitely, each time the delay 
> expires. To stop it, just pause the delay script.
> To start, just execute executeAction .
>
> I'm working at a different way, adding a duration tile to sound 
> category but this wants more thinking.
>
>
> Sorry for the strange name of the project, it is due to Sugar, It was 
> 'delayWithSound.' :-)
>
> Regards
>

Have you looked at the SoundPlayer>>waitUntilDonePlaying: method.
Maybe that could be added to Player so repeated sounds would wait until 
the previous sample is done.

Karl

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ricardo Moran" [richi.moran at gmail.com]
> Date: 11/17/2009 08:49 PM
> To: "Young-Jin Lee" <youngjin.michael at gmail.com>
> CC: squeakland at squeakland.org
> Subject: Re: [squeakland] [Q] How to delay an execution of a command 
> tile in a
> script
>
> Ive made this simple project with a "delay object". You can duplicate 
> it and change the execute action script to perform anything you want. 
> Then you simply run the "startDelay:" script with the duration as a 
> parameter.I hope you find it useful. I dont know if there is an easier 
> way, though.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Young-Jin Lee 
> <youngjin.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a way to delay a certain action for a certain period 
> of time. For instance, I have a book and want to flip the page when 
> the mouse cursor is touch another Sketch. But, I want to delay the 
> page flipping for a certain period of time instead of doing it right 
> away because I want, for instance, to show a Text widget after the 
> mouse cursor touched another Sketch, but before flipping the book 
> page. Without delaying the flipping of a book page, I cannot even read 
> the text in the Text Widget.
>
>
> Related to this, I am wondering if I can play a short sound clip 
> repeated in a script that is being executed repeatedly. I want to play 
> a certain sound repeated while a sketch is roaming around the World. 
> If I put the "play sound" tile in the script that will make the Sketch 
> roam the World, I got echoes because the "play sound" is invoked 
> before the previous execution of the previous call to "play sound" 
> ends as I invoke this roaming script repeatedly (by clicking on its 
> clock icon on the scriptor).
>
>
> Is there a way to resolve these problems?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Young-Jin Lee
>
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