Re: Trying to suspend or pause execution of a program (Updated).
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- Subject: [mg130491] Re: Trying to suspend or pause execution of a program (Updated).
- From: Clif McInnis <c_mcinnis at hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:34:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Here is the program that I am working on. It is just a little counting exercise for K and Pre-K. The problem is that you can press buttons that will cause the number of balls on the screen to be quite different from what is being said. I have worked with putting "Pause" in several places; for different lengths of time, and using Enabled->False/(True) in an attempt to make the buttons inactive until the computer had finished "speaking". So far none of what I have tried has helped, so I was hoping to get some suggestions from the community. Clif McInnis Manipulate[ Pane[Column[{Text[ Row[If[n < 2, {Spacer[160], Style[nnames[[n]], Bold, Large, Hue[RandomReal[]]], Style[" Ball", Bold, Large, Green]}, {Spacer[160], Style[nnames[[n]], Bold, Large, Hue[RandomReal[]]], Style[" Balls", Bold, Large, Green]}]]], Row[Table[Graphics[{ Darker[Green], Disk[], Text[ Style[numerals[[ r]], Orange, "Label", 48], {0, 0}]}], {r, 1, n}] ]}, BaseStyle -> {LinebreakAdjustments -> {1., 10, 0, 0, 10}}], {525, 300}], Row[{Button[ " Start \n ", {n = 1, Speak["lets count the numbers 1 to 10 out loud. One"]}], Spacer[55], Button[ "\[FilledLeftTriangle]\[FilledLeftTriangle] Start Over", {n = 1, Speak["one"]}], Button[ "\[FilledLeftTriangle] Less", {If[ n < 2, {n = 1, Speak["Today we are just working on the numbers from one to \ ten."]}, {n -= 1, Speak[n]}]}], Spacer[10], Button[ "More \[FilledRightTriangle]", {If[ n > 9, {n = 10, Speak["Lets learn the numbers from one to ten before we go \ on."]}, {n += 1, Speak[n]}]}], Button[ "All \[FilledRightTriangle]\[FilledRightTriangle]", {n = 10, Speak["ten"]}] }], {{n, 1, " "}, ControlType -> None}, SynchronousUpdating -> False, Initialization :> ( numerals = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10",}; nnames = {"One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten"}; )]