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keroro645 wrote:

Do you mean you want the music to stop playing when something happens.

yup, that's what I'd like.

I should explain 'playing' is a global variable I switch to 1 when the user is playing the game, and is set to '0' when he/she runs out of power, and 'game over' gets displayed.

If I do

until playing = 0
    play techno
(repeat)

then it just plays the first note before starting again.

I wondered if I could do something like...

until playing = 0
   play techno

   count = 0
   until playing = 0 and count = 1000 (or whatever number of repetitions I need)
       change count by 1
   (repeat)

   if playing = 0
       stop script
(repeat)


but I'm worried the repetition count might be influenced by how much I'm stressing the computer do all the rest of the stuff... so I might start chopping the music off half way through, or leaving gaps between plays 

I can't try this now cos I'm at work 

Last edited by SonicPopsDad (2008-07-30 12:23:51)

Ahhhhh, I get the reason...

when I tried a loop with a 'play techno' it also had some other commands it'd process in the loop, and it was doing *those* that stopped the music playing and restarted it from the beginning (which caused it to just stutter on the first note)

so if I have a loop where the *only* thing it does is play the music, then it'll work 

great - many thanks!


edit:  actually it didn't seem to work, it still seemed happy to stop itself and start the sample from the beginning again.

So I reverted to 'play sound until done' but also made use of the 'stop playing sounds' block which does a good job of cutting the longer samples in mid-flow!  So I'm much better off than I was 

Last edited by SonicPopsDad (2008-07-30 21:47:36)