Sound Effecs in SketchUp (HELP)

Dan Rathbun

The Windows Scripting Host can run Js code natively.

(1) Try making your javascript a standalone "rezballiza_sounds.js" file.

Then call that .js file with:

@sounds_path = "C;/path/to/rezballiza/dir"
@sounds_script = File.join(@sounds_path,"rezballiza_sounds.js")
UI.openURL(@sounds_script)

(2) Use Ruby's execute system command (the backquote method.)

either:
wscript C:/path/to/rezballiza/dir/rezballiza_sounds.js``
or:
%x[wscript C:/path/to/rezballiza/dir/rezballiza_sounds.js]

(In a system command console, type wscript -? to see a popup with wscript command line parameters.)

On Windows.. using a backquoted (**``**) or %x` delimited execute string, currently there is no way to suppress the momentary display of a command console window.

renderiza

Dan Rathbun… I followed you in step 1 but step 2 has me lost.

The following is another of my tests;

<head>
<bgsound src="#" id="soundeffect" loop=0 autostart="true" />
</head>

<script>
var soundfile="zap1.wav"

function playsound(soundfile){
if (document.all && document.getElementById){
document.getElementById("soundeffect").src=soundfile
}
}
playsound(soundfile) //to play the sound
</script>

The result;

The sounds work but I get a quick screen freeze every time a sound is played. Maybe 300 KB sound size is too much but not sure. Anyways I will keep trying new stuff untill I stumble with a solution. If anyone is brave enough to give it a shoot please do. The game code is here;

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w9m7du0fnhkgwv0/bIqndmMs1S

Thanks

Dan Rathbun

@unknownuser said:

Dan Rathbun… I followed you in step 1 but step 2 has me lost.

They are NOT sequential steps.

They were separate suggested possible solutions.

Both are Ruby code examples.

The global [`()](http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.6/Kernel.html#method-i-60) method (name is the backquote character) aka ` %x` delimited string.

Using special delimited strings ( which refers to:)

Shell Command.

A shell command is a string enclosed in backquotes, or in a general delimited string starting with %x. The value of the string is the standard output of running the command represented by the string under the host operating system's standard shell. The execution also sets the $? variable with the command's exit status.

dos-like example:
filter = "*.rb" files =dir #{filter} files = %x{dir #{filter}}

unix-like example:
filter = "*.rb" files =ls #{filter} files = %x{ls #{filter}}

renderiza

I don’t know if I am doing something wrong but the 1st option opens adobe dreamweaver.
Dan Rathbun… As much as I will like to say I understand everything, the reality is that I just started the process of learning programming a few weeks ago but I will do my best. Thanks

Dan Rathbun

@unknownuser said:

I don’t know if I am doing something wrong but the 1st option opens adobe dreamweaver.

UI.openURL will open the file type with the application that is registered by the system for that file extension.

Somehow your system was set to open .js files with Adobe Dreamweaver ?

This should not have been done.

Start Menu > Default Programs > Associate a filetype or protocol with a program

... wait for the list to load (it takes a few minutes.)

Scroll down to .js file, and double click it.

It should be set to "Microsoft (R) Windows Based Script Host" (which is wscript.exe)

If it is set to Adobe Dreamweaver, you should set it back to the default.

Dan Rathbun

@unknownuser said:

..., the reality is that I just started the process of learning programming a few weeks ago ...

Get and read this: [doc] Programming Ruby (The "Pick-Axe" Book)

... and the Ruby 1.8.6 Reference Dictionary

TIG

Another common screw-up is that .jar files [executable Java archives] that should auto-run as if they were an .exe file can get 'taken over' by several compression apps, and therefore they 'open' rather than 'run'
This can break some of my tools that use these file-types to allow image manipulations 'cross-platform' - e.g. ImageTrimmer...

renderiza

Here is what appears now;

Script: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\Resballiza\resballiza_sounds.js
Line: 1
Char: 1
Error: Syntax error
Code: 800A03EA
Source: Microsoft JScript compilation error

The Javascript file has this code inside;

<script>
var snd = new Audio("zap1.wav"); // buffers automatically when created
snd.play();
</script>

Maybe I should have other code for it to work.

tbd

wonder if http://plugins.ro/labs/suave.htm still works nowadays. as I moved to OSX, anyone wants to try it out ?

Dan Rathbun

the <script> and </script> tags are HTML tags only for embedding javascript inline inside HTML files.

There are NOT allowed in separate js files.

renderiza

@unknownuser said:

wonder if http://plugins.ro/labs/suave.htm still works nowadays. as I moved to OSX, anyone wants to try it out ?

Well actually I tried it a couple of days ago and didn't get any sounds.

@dan rathbun said:

the <script> and </script> tags are HTML tags only for embedding javascript inline inside HTML files.

There are NOT allowed in separate js files.

I knew that... lol

Now the error says;

Script: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\Resballiza\resballiza_sounds.js
Line: 3
Char: 1
Error: 'Audio' is undefined
Code: 800A1391
Source: Microsoft JScript runtime error

Dan Rathbun

Well you would need require the js file where Audio IS defined, I would imagine.

TIG

OR perhaps something like
snd=document.createElement('audio'); snd.setAttribute('src', 'zap1.wav'); snd.play();
?

driven

When run from Ruby Console the tests in the WebDialog , except the 'IE' BGSOUND tag work on a mac, obviously only single file, as written, and only with plugin for the java ones.

wwhdlg = UI;;WebDialog.new("wot_works_here", true, "wwh", 1200, 641, 50, 50, true);
 wwhdlg.set_url "http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/mark/audio/play.htm"
 wwhdlg.show_modal 
 wwhdlg.navigation_buttons_enabled=true

john

renderiza

@tig said:

OR perhaps something like
snd=document.createElement('audio'); snd.setAttribute('src', 'zap1.wav'); snd.play();
?

Keep getting errors

Error 'document' is undefined

...if I use;

var snd=document.createElement('audio');
var snd.setAttribute('src', 'zap1.wav');
snd.play();

it says;

Error: Expected ';'

@driven said:

When run from Ruby Console the tests in the WebDialog , except the 'IE' BGSOUND tag work on a mac, obviously only single file, as written, and only with plugin for the java ones.

wwhdlg = UI;;WebDialog.new("wot_works_here", true, "wwh", 1200, 641, 50, 50, true);
>  wwhdlg.set_url "http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/mark/audio/play.htm"
>  wwhdlg.show_modal 
>  wwhdlg.navigation_buttons_enabled=true

john

This is a nice way of testing what sounds work in UI::WebDialog

TIG

Perhaps...
var snd=document.createElement('audio'); snd.setAttribute('src', 'zap1.wav'); snd.play();

renderiza

your code works fine when using the .html extension with

But... when using .js extension and trying to open it with "Microsoft (R) Windows Based Script Host" using this code it does't work.

var snd=document.createElement('audio');
snd.setAttribute('src', 'zap1.wav');
snd.play();

Dan Rathbun

of course not... %(#8000BF)[document] is the HTML DOM object, only valid in browsers.

Dan Rathbun

In a UI::WebDialog for old pre-HTML5 which is what PC SketchUp currently uses...

try using an %(#8000BF)[<embed>] tag.

<EMBED type="audio/x-midi" src="BackInTheSaddle.mid" hidden="true">

see [MSDN: <embed>](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535245(v)

And for the various MIME type strings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type#Type_audio

Dan Rathbun

On Windows there is also a lightweight player in the same folder as the normal Media Player.

It is named "mplayer2.exe"

Command Line options

Also the switch -min or /min seems to work to minimize the interface.

The path on XP:
%(#804000)[%ProgramFiles%/Windows Media Player/mplayer2]

in Ruby that would be:
player_path = File.join(ENV["ProgramFiles"],"/Windows Media Player/mplayer2")

I thot at one time this also was distro'd as an ActiveX control (.ocx file) that could be embedded in webpages ?? (But that may only be MSIE.)

Sound Effecs in SketchUp (HELP)

Here is what appears now;

Script: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\Resballiza\resballiza_sounds.js Line: 1 Char: 1 Error: Syntax error Code: 800A03EA Source: Microsoft JScript compilation error

Script: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\Resballiza\resballiza_sounds.js
Line: 1
Char: 1
Error: Syntax error
Code: 800A03EA
Source: Microsoft JScript compilation error