Check if sound playing

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Robby

(Posted 2012) [#1]

This is probably simple, but there's nothing on it in the help. If I have a sound come on randomely, say, a five-second sound, how do I keep the sound from re-playing before its done? Something like:

If mysound IsNotAlreadyPlaying Then
PlaySound mysound
End If

Must be a simple flag or something I can't find? -Rob

Bremer

(Posted 2012) [#2]

Type in "ChannelPlaying" in the editor and press F1 twice. This will bring you to the description for the function which is used to determine if something is playing.

Midimaster

(Posted 2012) [#3]

an advise additional to the help example:

to use ChannelPlaying it is important to have a valid channel before testing it in the main loop. So alloc the channel first with CueSound() before testing it with ChannelPlaying():

Graphics 800,600

Sound:TSound = LoadSound ("test.ogg")
Global Channel:TChannel=CueSound(Sound)

Repeat
	Delay 100
	Print "ChannelPlaying(channel)="+ChannelPlaying(channel)
	If ChannelPlaying(Channel)=0
		Print "Resume"
		Channel=PlaySound(Sound)
	EndIf 
Until KeyHit(Key_Escape)