Ruby Challenge!

[Jim]

I was curious about the behavior of UI.play_sound. On my system, window 2000 pro, I wrote the core of the challenge as follows:

Dir["c;\winnt\media\*"].each {|s| UI.play_sound(s)}

This played all the sounds simultaneously. Is the behavior the same for everyone?

[RickW]

That's what I got...

[RickW]

Okay, round 2 is closed. TIG and I each got it down to 84 characters with the following code:

@tig said:

c=0;Dir["C:/WINDOWS/Media/*v"].each{|w|UI.play_sound w;UI.inputbox([w],["#{c+=1}"])}

@rickw said:

i=0;Dir["C:/WINDOWS/Media/*v"].each{|f|UI.play_sound f;puts"#{i+=1}: #{f}";sleep(3)}

I could have squeezed it to 83 by removing the space after the : in the puts statement, but decided against it.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this - it was a fun challenge, and we should do another one next month

[RickW]

Too late for deadline, but a shorter (77 characters) solution:

i=0;Dir["C:/WINDOWS/Media/*"].each{|f|UI.play_sound f;puts [i+=1,f];sleep(3)}

If anyone can reduce it from here, please post and enlighten us all

[daiku]

OBFUSCATORS! You should be trying to make it MORE readable, not less! (switch to high, crackly voice) You young punks don't know how good you've got it! Why, back in my day, all we had was ones and zeros. And sometimes we didn't even have zeros, and we had to use the letter O!

[Jim]

@rickw said:

Too late for deadline, but a shorter (77 characters) solution:

i=0;Dir["C:/WINDOWS/Media/*"].each{|f|UI.play_sound f;puts [i+=1,f];sleep(3)}

If anyone can reduce it from here, please post and enlighten us all

i=0;Dir["/WINDOWS/Media/*"].map{|f|UI.play_sound f;p i+=1,f;sleep 3}

That would be 68?

[RickW]

Nice job Jim!

Clark, that was too funny

[TIG]

Tweaking Jim's..

i=0;Dir["/*/Media/*v"].map{|f|UI.play_sound f;p i+=1,f;sleep 3}

That would be 63... AND it only plays wav files, not falling over on midi's etc... (62 otherwise)

[Jim]

@tig said:

Tweaking Jim's..

i=0;Dir["/*/Media/*v"].map{|f|UI.play_sound f;p i+=1,f;sleep 3}

That would be 63... AND it only plays wav files, not falling over on midi's etc... (62 otherwise)

Alright TIG!

A note about using Dir[""]: I didn't specify a file ending because I have files that end in .WAV. These files do not get played because they end in capital letters. The shortest way to get ALL the files was o use *.

[RickW]

hmm... the last two solutions won't play on my machine.

[Jim]

@rickw said:

hmm... the last two solutions won't play on my machine.

Both work for me.

[rombout]

interesting this stuff does anyone know how to stop a file from playing in UI

[morisdov]

rombout look here - stopping UI.play_sound ? -
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10352&p=68452#p68452

[rombout]

yeah i already knew that one. But thanx anyway, did you already found different solution