[Sugar-devel] Etoys mp3 files

[Ajay Garg]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 31.05.2012, at 19:33, Ajay Garg wrote:
>
> > Ok,
> >
> > After much of head-banging, I finally compared the strace dumps from my
> Dell laptop, and my XO-1.
> > I noted that, that on Dell, squeakvm was being launched from
> "/usr/local/lib", while on XO-1, from "/usr/bin".
> >
> > I made the required changes, and surprisingly, everything fell in place.
> >
> > Well.. only to the point of starting the etoys :\
> >
> >
> > Now, upon launching the sugar-etoys, and navigating to "Supplies" ->
> "Object Catalog" -> "Multimedia" -> "MPEGPlayer" -> "Open" -> "Choosing a
> file" -> "Clicking OK", thankfully, the "abandon" error is no more seen :)
> :) :)
> >
> > However, when I press "Play", NOTHING happens. I don't hear any sound,
> nor do I see any error (The mp3 is fine otherwise, it playes well via
> gst-launch).
>
> Well, does sound work in Etoys otherwise? Like, in the car's viewer, if
> you click the yellow exclamation mark button next to "car make sound", do
> you hear anything?
>
> Also, the position slider should start moving.
>


Oh well, yes, the slider starts moving (how idiotic of me not to note this
simple thing :\ )
Also, when I press the exclamation mark - set in between "Car script1" and
"ticking" - I hear no sound.

Any quick idea ?
Otherwise I am going into the depths pointed by you :D


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay




> > Bert, is there a mechanism wherein I can see SOMEthing, which may give a
> clue as to why no sound can be heard (even an error somewhere here and
> there might be useful, but it needs to be seen first :D )
>
> Well, you have the full Squeak development environment at your disposal,
> if you care to learn how to use it ;)
>
> You can press the view-source key on the XO, or Control-Comma. That gives
> you access to the dev tools. Execute any code you see or type anywhere by
> pressing Control-D (or Control-P or Control-I, just try the difference on
> "3+4", for example).
>
> Also, you should enable the "debugHaloHandle" preference. Then
> right-clicking will give you a wrench icon in the halo, that lets you
> explore the object on screen. (I usually keep this enabled using the "set
> automatically on startup..." preference menu item)
>
> If you have an object selected in the object explorer, press ctrl-b to
> open a source code browser. Or click the middle mouse button to bring up a
> menu (control-click works if you only have two buttons).
>
> That's pretty much all you need to figure out what's going on :)
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
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