Issues with background music and looping

[butler]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
make a math quiz/test that has music playing in background and eventually add graphics


What is the problem you are having?
music wont play in background and issues with the loops when you get a question wrong and if you finish the test the loop has problems with not stopping


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
tried looking on the forums and tried to change the format of the loops used in the code

Turing:

%MATH QUIZ PROGRAM %Make music play in background instead of just as you start running program Music.Play ("2<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<b>b1b2b4be1e2b>2c<8b>4c<b2ab4ag2e1e") Music.Play ("2<ab>1c>4cecec2c<c1d4>e4aef+<bb2>1e>2gb>1e2<<<<<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg") Music.Play ("<1e>4eb>e1g2<d>4f+d<2ac4>ec<2g<1e>4eb>e1g2<d>4f+d<2ac4>ec<2g<1e>4eb>e1g2<d>4f+d<2ac4>ec<1g2df+g>1d+") Music.Play ("2<<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg<e>gb>e<bg") put"If you fail a question you need to redo the last answer. " put"What is 5x11? " var num:real const numans:=55 loop    get num    if num=55     then put"Good job "    loop       put"What is the Square root of 64? "..       var sqrt64:real       get sqrt64       if sqrt64=8       then put"WOW great work! "       loop          put"What is 2x43 to the power of 2? "          var ques1:real          get ques1          if ques1=3698          then put"Awesxome work, the final question is next "          loop             put"This is the final question. 2(35x2)**2/4 ? "             var ques2:real             get ques2             if ques2=2450             then put"CONGRATULATIONS you beat the test :D "             loop                put"You have beat the test good job :) "                end loop             else             put"What matters is that you tried "             exit             end if             end loop          else          put"You came pretty close "          exit          end if          end loop       else       put"Nice try ;) "       exit       end if       end loop    else    put"FAILURE"    exit    end if end loop

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1.1

[Raknarg]

That's because music.play doesn't run in the background, it only runs when you call it. You could use actual music, that would play in the background

[Dreadnought]

To play music in the background (either music that you create or a music file) you need to fork a separate process that plays the music while your game runs. You can think of each process as a separate program while it runs.
This is exactly what Music.PlayFileReturn and other similar functions do to play music in the background.

[Raknarg]

Not true, actually. You can play music without it being in a process. I used to do it when I used Turing.

[Dreadnought]

Raknarg wrote:

Not true, actually. You can play music without it being in a process. I used to do it when I used Turing.

There is a process either in your code or in the Turing source code (found under "Turing 4.X -> predefs").

[Raknarg]

Oh. Well nevermind then.