Trouble coding a simple method call.

[sir honey]

Hi All,

I'm very new to ChucK and looking to make progress and friends here on the forum. I'm confused about many things at this early stage of the game, but maybe somebody would be nice enough to help me with this one snag I can't seem to wrap my head around.

when I code:

SndBuf sam => dac;

"/mysample" => sam.read;

while (true){

Std.rand2f (0.0, sam.samples ) => sam.pos;

sam.play;

1=> sam.loop;

1::second => now;
}

I'm unable to compile the program. now, is this a syntax error that I'm encountering, or a misunderstanding about how the Std.rand2f should function? Forgive my ignorance, I'm pretty new to programming, and have much more of a music background. I would just like to play "mysample" from a different random point in time with each iteration of the loop.

Thanks. I think this forum is a great resource, and I'm glad to participate in this friendly community.

jack

[spencer]

Hey there, jack, welcome to ChucK!

There are a few problems I can see. Firstly, the .pos parameter expects an integer, not a float--thus you should use the Std.rand2 function (and change the floating-point 0.0 argument to just an integral 0). Secondly, functions that don't have arguments need an empty set of parentheses. Thus

[sir honey]

Thanks a lot, Spencer

That does help, and thanks for the welcome!

If I didn't have to work, I'd ChucK all day long.

best,

jack