Help to display mp3 duration and played time in i0S

[gwin]

Hi!

I am trying to build a basic PLAY function inside an app for a short mp3 file on iOS.

I have no idea how to customise the native player hence I am using custom icons to play/pause/stop and need help displaying duration and amount played on the card.

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// set up the player
mobileControlSet "myPlayer", "filename", specialFolderPath("engine") & "/filetoplay.mp3"
mobileControlSet "myPlayer", "preserveAspect", true
mobileControlSet "myPlayer", "showController", true

// hide native player as controlling mp3 with custom icons
mobileControlSet "myPlayer", "visible", false

# for testing, display native player on card - works fine
# mobileControlSet "myPlayer", "rect", "10,400,300,370"

Setting up the play / pause / stop icons is straightforward with code such as...

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on mouseUp
   mobileControlDo "myPlayer", "play"
end mouseUp

But I cannot work out how to display;

1. The total length of the mp3 file in mins & secs, e.g. 1:02
2. The amount of the file played, i.e. counting up how much of the file has been played in realtime.

I have studied mobileControlGet and tried a myriad of patterns but can't seem to work it out.

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put mobileControlGet ("myPlayer","currentTime") into tcurrentTime   
put mobileControlGet ("myPlayer","playableDuration") into tDuration

put tDuration into fld "test"

Any help, pointers would be most appreciated. Thank you!

[gwin]

OK! After all that, JUST found this post which should answer my questions: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3171

Having worked through the post quoted above, just need clarification on the equivalents for iOS of...

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   put the duration of player "p1" into tDuration
   put the timescale of player "p1" into tTimeScale

Should be something like...

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put mobileControlGet ("myPlayer","playableDuration") into tDuration
put mobileControlGet ("myPlayer","currentTime") into tTimeScale

Any ideas?

[Klaus]

Hi gwin,

acording to the docs, all "times" for players are returned in milliseconds, so "timescale" is not needed at all!

QuickTIme movies on the desktop may have different timescales so you need to compute their "frame per second",
which is obviously not neccessary on iOS! Know what I mean?


Best

Klaus