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[Kaz]

Hi,

I've attached the whole script - because now the game just gives me a run-time error and says that 'Pause' is not defined.

I'm completely at a loss.

#include "scripts\base.inc"
//
global gNextMessageToPlay;
global gHeardMessage1;
var a;
var Sprite;
Game.AttachScript("scenes\04_Lounge\ANSAPHONE\scr\MessagePlay.script");
//
on "LeftClick"
  {
  // Disable exit
  a = Scene.GetNode("zoom_out");
  a.Active = false;
  //
  Game.PlaySound("sounds\LittleSwitch.ogg");
  Sleep(500);
  // Are we listening to the bleep?
  a = Game.IsMusicChannelPlaying(1);
  if(a == true)
    {
    Game.StopMusicChannel(1);
    }
  //
  // Are we listening to a message?
  a = Scene.GetNode("subx");
  Sprite = a.GetSpriteObject();
  if(!Sprite.Finished && !Sprite.Paused)
    {
    Game.Msg("I'm not finished");
    Sprite.Pause();
    }
  else
    // if we can't hear a message, time to play one
    {
    if(gHeardMessage1 == false)
      {
      gNextMessageToPlay = 1;
      Game.MessageNumber();
      }
    Game.PlayMessage();
    }
  }

[metamorphium]

are you sure the entity in question is Sprite Entity and is called subx (don't forget it's case SENSITIVE)?

[Kaz]

Hi Metamorphium,

Yes I'm sure about that. The code that runs the sprite is in another part of the Attached script, and it must be working, because the sprite plays its designated mixture of subtitles and voiceover:
var Sprite;
var a;
global gNextMessageToPlay;
  if(gNextMessageToPlay == 1)
    {
   gHeardMessage1 = true;
    Sprite = "scenes\04_Lounge\ANSAPHONE\TommyANSA1.sprite";
             a = Scene.GetNode("subx");
   a.SetSprite(Sprite);
   a.Active = true;
    }
So if I'd got the case wrong relative to the scene entity, it wouldn't play, let alone stop, right?

Cheers

[Kaz]

I've given up on this one. I'll find another way of playing the messages. Still don't know why I couldn't control the sprite though, which is disconcerting.

[odnorf]

As a last resort you can upload the sources of a simple test scene. It's always the best method to check what's going on. And if you don't want to do this in public you can send the link in a pm to Mnemonic.

[metamorphium]

or send a PM to me for that matter. The problem will be elsewhere IMO and having some minimalistic testing scene would help.

[Kaz]

Interesting new development. Thanks for the idea to create a minigame, it's definitely thrown up something...

In order to create the minigame, I had to rebuild the sprite. Half a dozen timed frames, with a sound file connected to the first frame. Set that running in SpriteEdit. Then press the 'stop' button. The animation stops, but the sound keeps going! So even SpriteEdit cannot stop the attached sound - so I'm less surprised now that I couldn't stop the sprite in the game either. Could that be a bug?

In any case, although sprites would be a convenient way of handling this scene, the sound handling seems suspect. I guess I'll take the sound out and control it separately with a MusicChannel. That way I can do an IsMusicChannel and if it's true, do a StopMusicChannel at the same time as an ent.Active=false on the node carrying the subtitles (after resetting the node's sprite of course).

Thanks for all your help guys.

Cheers

Kaz

[metamorphium]

is the sound ogg or wav?

[Mnemonic]

I didn't realize Kaz was talking about sprite's sound all the time.
Now I modified the Sprite.Reset() method so that it also stops all sounds being played by the sprite.

[Kaz]

Hello M and Mn

The sound is an ogg. Thanks for looking at the method.

One last thing: what do I need to do to stop getting this:

11:00:34:  Runtime error. Script 'scenes\04_Lounge\ANSAPHONE\scr\Play.script', line 33
11:00:34:    Call to undefined method 'Reset'. Ignored.

from this code?
   a = Scene.GetNode("subx");
   Sprite = a.GetSpriteObject();
   Sprite.Reset();

Thanks

Kaz

[Mnemonic]

You'll get this error if the sprite object reference isn't valid. Try this:

if(Sprite != null) Sprite.Reset();

[Kaz]

Ah, I hadn't thought of that, thanks. Although I guess it would be better if my code was written so I didn't make the error of addressing an empty Node in the first place! 

I'll recheck my logic.