put or remove audio from the menu

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#1

Hello Guys, I have a question , How can I put or remove audio for my game, from the menu, for people who wants to game with audio or without audio from beginning.

Thanks.

#2

Hi @joshet.cimabusiness,

For this, I would suggest that you create a standard switch button (you can use the newSwitch widget if you prefer), and then set the master audio volume to 0 to mute all sounds.

[lua]

audio.setVolume( 0.0 )  – set the master volume

[/lua]

Or, if you prefer, you can build a more “complex” method where audio doesn’t even play if the audio setting from the menu is turned off. This would ultimately be a more efficient method (performance), but it depends on how many sound effects you’ll be playing, and the size/format of them. If you only have a few sound effects to enhance the app, an overall volume mute is probably fine.

Hope this helps,

Brent

#3

Hi!

What Brent says could have saved me a lot of time in one of my latest games…

I created a preference value to keep track of the sound on/off option on my main.lua file

if not preference.getValue("musicIsOn") then     preference.save{ musicIsOn = true }     preference.save{ fxIsOn = true } end  

and whenever I played a sound effect file or music, I would check if that value was active: 

function playClickSound()     if preference.getValue("fxIsOn") then             audio.play(buttonClickSound)     end end  

Cheers! 

#4

Hello thanks for helping me,this function remove all the audio for the game? because I put the audio cancel and cancel only the music but not the  sound effect

#5

Hello paytopwn, I put the new swith method, but cancel all the audio and I cant the audio play again,how I can make it work correctly?

Thanks.

#6

Brent , Thanks for your help ,this code works perfectly for me!!!

#7

Well. the fact was that you have to control the way you play all your elements using my method. I think Brent’s method is simpler and better! 

Cheers

#8

Hi @joshet.cimabusiness,

For this, I would suggest that you create a standard switch button (you can use the newSwitch widget if you prefer), and then set the master audio volume to 0 to mute all sounds.

[lua]

audio.setVolume( 0.0 )  – set the master volume

[/lua]

Or, if you prefer, you can build a more “complex” method where audio doesn’t even play if the audio setting from the menu is turned off. This would ultimately be a more efficient method (performance), but it depends on how many sound effects you’ll be playing, and the size/format of them. If you only have a few sound effects to enhance the app, an overall volume mute is probably fine.

Hope this helps,

Brent

#9

Hi!

What Brent says could have saved me a lot of time in one of my latest games…

I created a preference value to keep track of the sound on/off option on my main.lua file

if not preference.getValue("musicIsOn") then     preference.save{ musicIsOn = true }     preference.save{ fxIsOn = true } end  

and whenever I played a sound effect file or music, I would check if that value was active: 

function playClickSound()     if preference.getValue("fxIsOn") then             audio.play(buttonClickSound)     end end  

Cheers! 

#10

Hello thanks for helping me,this function remove all the audio for the game? because I put the audio cancel and cancel only the music but not the  sound effect

#11

Hello paytopwn, I put the new swith method, but cancel all the audio and I cant the audio play again,how I can make it work correctly?

Thanks.

#12

Brent , Thanks for your help ,this code works perfectly for me!!!

#13

Well. the fact was that you have to control the way you play all your elements using my method. I think Brent’s method is simpler and better! 

Cheers