How to play a sound and then close the application

[Gary]

Howdy all

Someone asked me how to play a sound and then quit the application.

Actually she asked for a button that would play a wave and then close the app. I did not ask why anyone would want to limit themselves to playing a wave

and did not comment on asking for a button rather than the blocks

because there are limits on how very picky I can be

  :-)

Her app has a clock, I turned off the TimerEnabled property in the Designer

I changed the button click block to set the clock's TimerEnabled to true

and play the wave

I added a Timer block for the clock and added the close application

and it now plays the sound and then closes the application.

and

She wanted a pause block. I can not think of how to do a block that pauses

  currently :-)

anyone have any ideas?

Gary

jsoft on G+

[Anthony Barnes]

I tried to get a pause button to work once but it is really tricky and very inconsistent. The best way is probably enter an issue to have that added to the player functionality like the video player does.

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[Gary]

The video player pause pauses the video.

She wants to play the sound and then quit the app when the sound is done playing.

That is not really a pause.

The pattern I used is like a JavaScript  setTimeout() or Java Thread.sleep().

There is no way to have the sound run and then have the next block run

or trigger an event when the sound finishes.

Ideas?

Gary

[Geo Massar]

How about playing a soundless wave upon the application closing?

Prof Geo

[Gary]

If I understand,

play the sound

play a quiet sound

quit the app

I do not know if that works, I assume... sounds are played in their own thread and if the first sound is long and the second is short (and silent) you would get it cutting off the first sound.

And if all this works

it is not real useful for deaf users. 

I would be nice to have a way to wait till a sequence of actions happens and then quit.

[Geo Massar]

It is always a good idea to have BOTH sound and visual effects for ALL users to enjoy,

Try the suggestion and see if it works. Never hurt to try.

Geo

[Anthony Barnes]

Moved this topic to the new forums on the new tair site.

http://www.tair.info/forums/topic/play-a-sound-then-quit-your-app/#post-629