stopping an MP3 at a certain time

[yoni]

I'd like to have an MP3 stop playing at a specified time. I know that I will need to use a get progress variable to find the time and then set the player to stop when it gets to the right time.

However I'm a little unclear on where I would set APM to look for the progress of the MP3. I think i would put it on the same button that starts playing the MP3 and create a loop to make it keep checking but I'm not really sure how I would do this.
Any help would be super-duper appreciated.

[Worm]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

MP3 in the MP3 Objects On Progress event.

[yoni]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

crap i didn't even think about looking at the mp3 player properties. thanks

[Worm]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

Sorry, meant to say check the Progress in the MP3 Objects On Progress event.

[yoni]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

no worries. I figured it out.

[yoni]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

on this same topic. I'm having a little trouble stoping and starting the mp3 at the right time. When the stop button is clicked it sets the progress variable. However it does this in the hh:mm:ss format whereas the seek function only recognizes seconds. Is there a simple expression i can use to reformat the variable to seconds?

[Worm]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

I don't know about simple, but something like this maybe:

%Hours% = String.GetDelimitedString ("%Progress%", "::", 0)
%Hours% = Evaluate (%Hour% * 3600)
%Minutes% = String.GetDelimitedString ("%Progress%", "::", 1)
%Minutes% = Evaluate (%Minutes% * 60)
%Seconds% = String.GetDelimitedString ("%Progress%", "::", 2)
%Seconds% = Evaluate (%Seconds% + %Minutes% + %Hours%)

[yoni]

Re: stopping an MP3 at a certain time

worked great after adding a -1 (i guess ittakes a second to stop the mp3 somewhere internally.) Thanks for the help. I hadn't really used strings before but that was well explained.