I have made a game for one of my students with special needs where he chooses a picture. The idea is that when he chooses the correct one, it plays a message and then goes to the next screen. My problem is that I can't get it to play the sound, instead it goes immediately to the next frame. I have tried various conditions, to no avail. Help, please!!!
Student selects the right picture
--->Set Picture flag 0 to on
Flag 0 of picture is on
+Only one action when event loops
---->play sound
Flag 0 of picture is on
+sound is not playing
--->go to next frame
Marv
or even simpler, alternative method is on start of frame (i.e. the frame after) "play sample x"
(the only possible issue with this is that the sound may repeat if the level needs to be reset in which case you could use a global string which is set to 1 on frame advance (use this as an extra condition) and have the string reset to 0 on level reset to prevent the sound from replaying. This is how i would do it anyway, but Marv's method works too, I'm pretty sure.
You could just go into the application settings and check the box that says "play sounds over frames". It's in the runtime tab (third tab from the left).
To delay before entering the next frame, you could just make an active object outside the frame area and set value A to 100, and B to 1 when you click the right picture (and also play the sound).
Then, make a condition that says "value A of active is greater than 0" -> subtract 1 from value A.
Also, you need a condition that says: when A is lower or equal to 0 and B is 1 = go to the next frame.
In other words, when you click a picture, a countdown starts, and when it reaches 0, the next frame will appear.
If you only want the picture to be clicked once, you can add the "run this event once" condition together with the "click on picture" event :)
An even easier way to delay before the next frame, is to just set value A of some object to 1 when you click the picture, and play the sound. Then, you tell mmf that if no sound is playing + value A is 1 + every 5 seconds -> go to next frame.
The best way and to be totally accurate. Insert an active object and name it "Frame Control" When the student clicks on the correct picture,....play the sound and set the "Frame Controls" alterable value to 1.......
Hold on,..here's an example. It's easier than explaining in text here..LOL. This will work just fine and it's accurate.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6hblamgq2gm1n5p
Thanks everyone for your help, when I get home from work today I will try them. Also, thanks for links to tutorials! I combed through the ones on this site, but hard to figure out & find which ones move to new frames each time a selection is made.
All are good examples! In my example there are only 4 events.
Thanks to all suggestions and especially for the examples- very, very helpful. I am completing it now so hopefully I can try it complete with sound tomorrow, yea!!