player turn music on / off button

[Lazypookzz]

I don't want to bother others by asking to much, but I am searching to long now, can't figure it out, so I do ask....

I want on every frame a simple button so the player can turn of / on the background music.
I don't want them to turn the other sounds off.

[Candle]

I think EZTalk would be help with that.
http://www.adventuremaker.com/plugins.htm

[Lazypookzz]

Thanks for your answer Candle

I already tried the EZTalk demo, and there is a lot in it, but just can't figure it out if I only want a hotspot which turns of / on the music..

[reneuend]

I'll show in a couple hours when I can get back to this. You can use a modified PlaySound routine to play the music on a specific channel. The other sounds would be on different channels from the music. Then when you wanted to stop the music, you would use the StopSound routine for the music channel.

Like I said, I'll show you an example in a couple hours when I have more time!

[Lyberodoggy]

This could help: http://adventuremaker.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5055

[reneuend]

Good find Lyberodoggy.

[Lazypookzz]

Thanks Reneuend & Lyberodoggy,

I did see that post too, I have a feeling I saw every post lol.


I tried it:

Used this in global procedures:

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Sub PlaySound(FileName, Repeat)
  Action.LoadControl MediaPlayerObject(2)
  MediaPlayerObject(2).FileName = FileName
  If Repeat = True Then
    MediaPlayerObject(2).PlayCount = 0
  Else
    MediaPlayerObject(2).PlayCount = 1
  End If
  MediaPlayerObject(2).Play
End Sub

Sub StopSound()
  MediaPlayerObject(2).Stop
  MediaPlayerObject(2).FileName = ""
  Action.UnloadControl MediaPlayerObject(2)
End Sub



Used this in the frame properties advanced

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Playsound GetPath (2) + "blub.mp3", False


Used in the hotspot advanced

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StopSound

When I click this hotspot, it works fine, the music stops.

When I click this hotspot again, it gives an error message.



What I want is when you click the hotspot again the music will continue playing

[Lyberodoggy]

Check the stopsound procedure. if the mediaplayerobject index isn't 2 then change it to 2

[mercedes]

It will give u an error message...if u press it twice in a row...which would make sense..

The code for the music to start playing appears when u enter the frame..Once inside the frame, and you hit "Stop",--then u try to hit ''Stop'' again...well the player hasn't reloaded..* Nothing to stop*-no sound..

But it shouldn't give u the error message when u come back to the frame..? Are you hitting it twice in a row, so the player has an option to "re-start" the sound..?

[Lazypookzz]

Hello Mercedes,

No it doesn't give the error message when I come back to the frame. The music starts playing again so you can hit 'stop' again

you see this in so many games, a little button to turn the sound on or off. I like my background music but it can annoy someone else.
Can't imagine someone here did not use this?


While i am writing i thought of something simple..2 hotspots on top of each other and with variables you only see on or of..
And it works. I only have to make sure that I only can visit the first frame once (where the music is already playing).

I am sure you can do this much better in ShadowHunter's plugin, but I can't figure that out for now.
I have enough work on the artwork, so don't have the time to know much of Vbscript.

Thanks for your time!

edit: I was too fast. it doesn't work properly when I go to another frame. Maybe I will figure it out later.

[mercedes]

Hi there...Ok this is what you have to do...This worked for me..

I have 2 Hotspots;

I have 1 variable; Music_1

In the Frame's Properties I have this;

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Playsound GetPath (2) + "bachos2.mid", False

The 2 Hotspots;

Hotspot(1) has the Colored_HandPickDisabled.ico
Hotspot(2) has the Colored_HandPick.ico

They are right on top of each other~

In Colored_HandPickDisabled.ico [Hotspot(1)]
Under Variable TAB
Music_1 must become = 1
In the AdvancedTAB

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StopSound
Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(1),""

This way the disabled hand goes away when you click it..[it comes back after]

*****************************************
In the Colored_HandPick.ico [Hotspot(2)]
Bottom of Variable TAB
Hotspot must not be enabled till ''Music_1" is =1
Top Portion of the Variable TAB
Variables of the value which must be inverted--ADD
Music_1

In the Advanced TAB

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Playsound GetPath (2) + "bachos2.mid", False
Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(1),"Colored_HandPickDisabled.ico"


And Thats it...

I Hope this helps.. Only 1 Variable which gets inverted...and 2 Hotspots..I used these pictures cause it looks like one is disabled, and one is enabled..~ If you don't quite get what i've done here..then test it with those pictures and u will see what I mean..~:)

Peace

[Lazypookzz]

Amazing Mercedes, you're the greatest

I tried it and it works like a charm!

I'm missing some emoticons here...I would use a dancing emoticon right now lol.

thankyou thankyou thankyou

[mercedes]

Np... Glad it got figured out..~

[reneuend]

[Lazypookzz]

[mercedes]

http://www.adventuremaker.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4359&highlight=emoticons

Here is a thread with a bunch of them in it...for future reference..if u like....

[Lazypookzz]

Do you know everything??

[juhuwoorps]

It seems so