Sound block enhancement : sound preview

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Next generation VPL for Thymio using Qt Quick from Qt 5.x

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Sound block enhancement : sound preview #118

Open Vincebecker opened 6 years ago

Vincebecker commented 6 years ago

It could be nice to have a "play" button when you are creating a sound in VPL mobile. So you can hear a preview of the sound before sending it to the robot.

The sound could come directly from the tablet/mobile phone.

Illustration of the idea : screenshot_20170914-120752

stephanemagnenat commented 6 years ago

I agree about the play button, it is a good idea! In general, we should have more interaction between the block editors and the robot. I think that it would be better to produce the sound on the robot, because we want the users to focus on programming the robot in a tangible way.

Vincebecker commented 6 years ago

I think that it would be better to produce the sound on the robot, because we want the users to focus on programming the robot in a tangible way.

I thought it was useful to produce the sound on the tablet/phone in the following cases :

robot is already doing something and maybe we don't want to interupt
robot is far and you can't hear correctly the sound

But this is not so important. I will trust your judgment.

stephanemagnenat commented 6 years ago

I am not totally against previewing the sound on the tablet, but one problem we observed is that the link between the tablet and the robot might be non-trivial to make, so if we preview the sound on the robot it might help. But for sure this needs testing.