[squeakland] Pervasive sound reverb when Etoys plays audio clips

[Mike Lee]

Thanks Bert. I will be able get the laptop back in the morning and will
extract the log file.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>  Haven't seen an error like this. Next time, please attach the error log
> (something like .sugar/default/logs/org.vpri.EtoysActivity.log).
>
> Regarding reverb, Etoys 4.1 (to be release next week) has a preference for
> that :)
>
> - Bert -
>
>   On 24.09.2010, at 22:43, Mike Lee wrote:
>
>   Steve or anyone,
>
> I've encountered a situation where what was a working install of Etoys on
> an XO-1 running Sugar 802 had developed this error message dialog when
> trying to load a project file:
>
> MessageNotUnderstood: UndefinedObject>>membersMatching
> An error has occured; you should probably just hit 'abandon'. Sorry!
>
> Photo here of the dialog followed by another photo of the log:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/5020410825/
>
> I was able to abandon opening the project, and get to the Etoys menu bar.
> I loaded the file from the Journal with the Open File menu button. That got
> me through the demo at the IMF. During that same event, I got access to wifi
> and installed the latest version of Etoys from activities.sugarlabs.organd the Etoys project was able to load correctly.
>
> I am conducting further investigation with my collaborators, but any advice
> would be appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>   On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>wrote:
>
>>  Mike,
>>
>> I posted a project that fixes the problem
>> http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10275 it uses a world
>> script that executes on open.
>> I changed the script to textual code and added this line: SoundPlayer
>> stopReverb from Bert's suggestion in
>> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-697
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>    On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Mike Lee <mikelee at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>
>>> I've just finished a prototype of a Bemba letter board where I've
>>> imported and scripted AIFF sound clips to play under mouseDown for each
>>> letter. This is for the Gates Foundation funded Lubuto Library Zambian
>>> Language Literacy Programming Project, which is using Etoys exclusively:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.eifl.net:8080/gallery2/v/plip_001/Lubuto+eIFL_net+PLIP+Project/
>>>
>>> Though my source audio is very crisp and clear, the audio plays back in
>>> Etoys with reverb on OLPC XO, Mac and Windows PC. Checking some other Etoys
>>> files with sounds, I notice that reverb is prevalent. I had just assumed
>>> before that there was some quirky reason those files were authored that way.
>>> Here is the second alpha of my project:
>>>
>>> http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=10270
>>>
>>> And how I scripted each button:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4985274660/in/set-72157624752133309/
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me how to turn off the reverb?
>>>
>>> Curiously, when I loaded my file into Bert's experimental Etoys for iPad,
>>> the sounds played without reverb.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> .squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
>>>
>>
>
>
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