[User Story] Halting of Music After the Image has Been Closed or a New Image is Played

[Kelzihar]

User Story

Essential components

• Title describes the story
• Stakeholder type is identified
• Outcome is described
• Rationale is explicit
• Acceptance criteria are verifiable and from the perspective of the stakeholder

Story

As a user
I want the image's music to stop when an image is closed or a different image is played
so that only one image's music plays at a time and cannot overlap each other

Acceptance Criteria

(Rules or scenarios are acceptable formats.)

• When using file -> close | if the image that was closed had music playing, the music halts or stops
• When using file -> play | when two different images are up, if music is already playing from one image, the music currently playing halts and the most recent play starts as the only music occurring
• When using file -> play | multiple times on one image, the music does not overlap, the current playing halts and the most recent file -> play is done

Supporting Information

Currently the music will continue to play when the image has been closed and will end either when it reaches the end of the song or when the program is closed through file -> close. This issue is most seen on the hiroshige.gif file in the images directory as the music played from this file is quite long.

[jody]

This "User Story" appears to presume a behavior that doesn't match with the current behavior (at least when tested on macOS). In particular, once the Play action is selected the picture windows do not respond to menu item requests. This also means that it is not currently possible to begin playing a second image at the same time (such as for a duet).

Perhaps there is an intent for multiple other changes to be inferred that would provide the context for this story. If so, please write those user stories explicitly. Then this user story might be added that will build on such a product.

[jody]

Investigations suggest that the behavior is likely dependent on the version of Java used in the build of imageLab.

In particular, the current release (v1.8.3) of imagelab.jar distributed via https://metrocs.github.io/imagelab/ does not appear to provide the ability to close a window or activate other windows during "play".

Builds of the current repository code under Java version 11 or later do appear to allow interaction with imageLab windows while "play" is ongoing; the behavior described in this issue.

This suggests the existence of another substantive issue involving associating particular versions of imageLab with particular versions of Java.