Indeed is one of life's most mystifying conundrums that the LC strategy
has allowed multi-media to take a back seat. With the world of online
video and audio exploding, one would think, that if you wanted LiveCode
to be a leading development platform, that making multi-media would be
*the* top
I searched this list and the LC forums to piece together a working method,
and the lock messages was part of what was recommended.
As Paolo said, multimedia in LC is in a state of chaos. Personally, I'd
rather have stable, coherent multimedia controls before experimental things
like html5 export.
@ Tom
Good to know that works on Windows. Yesterday I did start by creating a
player, setting it off screen for my Mac OSX UI. Glad to know that
works on Windows. One of our business team here moved entirely off the
Mac Platform over to windows (and built his entire box from the ground
up...
Hi,
This approach is working to play mp3s in a LC 7.0.5 standalone on Windows 7
and Vista:
I've tested this on a Windows 7 machine where QT is installed, but I set the
dontuseQT to true. And on a Vista machine that does not have QT installed.
Worked on both.
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Hi Brahmanathaswami,
as far as I know in desktop computer you can not play mp3 files as audio clips.
Using the "play audio clip" command you have to use WAV or AIFF format .
Although according LC documentation this command work also in Linux
desktop computer, as far as I know it doesn't.
If you w