onClientSoundStarted, How To Use?

[Dealman]

Hello, am working on a script which will keep all map-side music muted, instead of having to mute it every single time a new map is started. I don't know if this is possible, but I thought onClientSoundStarted would be the Event to use for something like this.

However, I can't seem to get it to work. I've tried to use the code example given in the Wikipedia, but it doesn't work. The only one that seams to work is onClientSoundStream.

Does anyone know if I'm doing anything wrong? And even more so, would something like this even be possible at all? onClientSoundStarted is the only event I can think of which could accomplish something like this.

I tried to do some research before posting this, but due to ridiculous limitations to the search I couldn't find anything of use...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Castillo]

This event is available from 1.4 onwards.

Wiki quote:

FROM VERSION 1.4 ONWARDS

[Jaysds1]

onClientSoundStarted is triggered by the functions:

playSound 
and 
SetSoundPaused 

[Dealman]

This event is available from 1.4 onwards.

Wiki quote:

FROM VERSION 1.4 ONWARDS

Ah, but why would such a useful event be delayed until the release of 1.4...? Hell, I don't really see the use of posting it on the Wiki this early since it would confuse newbies like me

Thanks for the heads-up, any ideas if this might be possible to accomplish in some other way?

[PaiN^]

onClientSoundStarted is triggered by the functions:

playSound 
and 
SetSoundPaused 

* Note : It's setSoundPaused ( with a small 's' in the beginning ) ..

+

addEvent 
addEventHandler 

[Dealman]

I know how sound works when it's inside the same resource...

What leaves me confused is because this music is started by the map itself. And I don't really see any other way to accomplish what I asked here - without the use of onClientSoundStarted which is to be released with 1.4. So I was hoping someone else might have a clever workaround for the time being.

[xXMADEXx]

Maybe "onClientSoundStream" ?

[DNL291]

onClientSoundStarted is triggered by the functions:

playSound 
and 
SetSoundPaused 

* Note : It's setSoundPaused ( with a small 's' in the beginning ) ..

+

addEvent 
addEventHandler 

That will not work.

Use this in the event you want to:

for _,theSound in ipairs(getElementsByType("sound")) do 
    stopSound(theSound) 
end 

[Dealman]

Thank you, DNL291!

Thanks to your example, I managed to come up with this code - which does exactly what I want. The song plays for like a split-second every time a map starts, but I'm sure people can live with that.

shouldMusicMute = false 
  
function onCommandMuteMusic() 
    if(shouldMusicMute == false) then 
        outputChatBox("DDAS-AutoMuter: You've #FFBBFFmuted#FF88FF all Map Music!", 255, 135, 255, true) 
        for _, theSound in ipairs(getElementsByType("sound")) do 
            setSoundVolume(theSound, 0) 
        end 
        shouldMusicMute = true 
    else 
        outputChatBox("DDAS-AutoMuter: You've #FFBBFFunmuted#FF88FF all Map Music!", 255, 135, 255, true) 
        for _, theSound in ipairs(getElementsByType("sound")) do 
            setSoundVolume(theSound, 1) 
        end 
        shouldMusicMute = false 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("mutemusic", onCommandMuteMusic, false) 
  
function onMapChange() 
    if(shouldMusicMute == true) then 
        for _, theSound in ipairs(getElementsByType("sound")) do 
            setSoundVolume(theSound, 0) 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientScreenFadedIn", getRootElement(), onMapChange) 

Should anyone feel the need of such code, feel free to use what I provided above and modify it to your liking.