[jmsl] startTime or scheduling MusicShape start

[jmsl at music.columbia.edu]

heh... well, I was still thinking they'd be sequential, but just not  
back-to-back.
Anyway, point taken!

J.

On 18-Jul-08, at 2:13 PM, jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:

> Actually it would have been odd to use a sequential collection to  
> launch MusicShapes non-sequentially!
> Best
> Nick
>
> jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:
>> Well, I found kind of an odd, but perfectly functional, was around  
>> this... Just using a ParallelCollection instead of a  
>> SequentialCollection, and setting the startDelay of each MusicShape  
>> to the desired absolute start time.
>> Perfect! (I built this into my mock Player class, as well, and it  
>> works just as expected.)
>> I see that I could also use EventScheduler, but I'll stick with  
>> this ParallelCollection approach, for now - I like the fact that it  
>> gives me a specific data structure for storing and scheduling  
>> MusicShapes. Also, from what I understand, I can still add these  
>> ParallelCollections to another ParallelCollection, to get the  
>> function of a sort of "multi-track" sequencer.
>> Just what I need, at the moment!
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> On 18-Jul-08, at 12:25 PM, jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering about setting an absolute time, or maybe more  
>>> accurately, an absolute "start time" for a MusicShape. I would  
>>> have expected setStartTime() to do this, but it doesn't appear  
>>> to... I understand that startDelay allows starting some given  
>>> period after the "launch" command, but what about starting a  
>>> MusicShape at a specific point in a SequentialCollection? That's  
>>> what I'd like to do. So, say I have 3 MusicShapes, and they're in  
>>> a SequentialCollection. I'd like to be able to start shape 1 at  
>>> 0.0, shape 2 at 5.5, and shape 3 at 20.0, regardless of the actual  
>>> total duration of each shape.
>>> I'm sure this is possible, but I can't see how it's done.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
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