Continuing SoundOut with changing Word display

[Mike]

Hey nevermind, I figured it out....just had to add a SoundOut1.Stop
inlin. I'm new to script!

Thanks for the help,
Michael

On Feb 12, 9:20 pm, Mike <mscullin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you use the SoundOut1.Play inlin is there another inlin to turn off
> the sound file?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Feb 11, 1:08 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Mike,
>
> > At 2/8/2008 03:07 PM Friday, you wrote:
>
> > >I want to play a .wav file throughout the
> > >experiment. I don't want it to begin and end on each trial but to
> > >actually last for the entire block of the lexical decision task. There
> > >doesn't need to be any allowable response made what's played on
> > >the .wav file, I just want it to play in the background. Is there a
> > >way to do this?
>
> > I can think of two ways to do this, maybe somebody else can come up
> > with something better.  The first way takes advantage of standard
> > properties of the SoundOut object, and the second uses inline script.
>
> > (1)  The key here is that the duration of an object that plays a
> > sound is distinct from the duration of the sound that the object
> > plays, and either one can be longer than the other.  So, e.g, if you
> > set the duration of a SoundOut object to 0 and set StopAfter to No,
> > then the SoundOut object will start playing the sound, then the
> > object will end while the sound continues playing.  Your program may
> > then do something else while the sound keeps playing.
>
> > (2) In inline script you can use something like SoundOut1.Play.  This
> > will simply start playing the sound and then continue your program
> > while the sound plays (you will still need a SoundOut1 or whatever
> > object in Unreferenced E-Objects or somewhere).  In fact, as the
> > online E-Basic 1.1 help itself says in its description of the
> > SoundOut.Play method, "Playback is asynchronous, (e.g. the .wav file
> > begins playing and then program execution continues with the next
> > object in the procedure)...  Playback is not affected by the Duration
> > property of the SoundOut object", and, "SoundOut.Play differs from
> > SoundOut.Run, which is not asynchronous and may or may not play the
> > entire file, depending upon the values for the Duration and StopAfter
> > properties" (SoundOut.Run is what happens when you have a SoundOut
> > object in your E-Studio structure).
>
> > The script method is a bit cleaner, and for all I know is slightly
> > more efficient with computer resources.  On the other hand, script
> > obscures the structure of your experiment, and it may require objects
> > sitting mysteriously in the Unreferenced E-Objects area of the
> > E-Studio structure view.  Using a SoundOut object with duration 0 and
> > no Stop After has the virtue that it is plainly visible in the
> > structure view of your experiment.  It's up to you.
>
> > -- David McFarlane, Systems Designer
> >     Dept. Psychology, Michigan State University
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