Re: [Freeciv-Dev] adding sound

[Bastian Hecht <basti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With "running parallel", I meant to fork a process. It was annoying, when you 
can't
continue
playing while the sound was played.

I'll add a option to turn on/off the sounds in "game/options". So, a bool 
variable
will be set.
Everywhere where a sound is appreciated a function < sound(SOUND_NO); > will be
called.
There is checked, if the variable is set. If it's disabled, the funtion returns
immediatly, else
the program tries to open the /dev/audio device and closes it after the sound 
was
played.
So it's always free when there's no sound.
Well, if the /dev/audio is installed must be checked in configure (no idea how,
remember, I'm
really new to it, I've never programmed for a project).

   basti

>
> Actually a better method would be to write a generic set of calls to play
> sounds..eg..  (warning: silly interface coming up, please make the real thing
> much more sophisticated than this)
>
> sounds.h:
> #define ELEPHANT_NOISE 12
> ..
>
> void sound_activate(int sound_num);
>
> someotherfile.c:
>    /* Elephant is attacking */
>    sound_activate(ELEPHANT_NOISE);
>
>   and then use configure checks to enable/disable various sound backends.  
> ...he
> says without writing a line of code...
>
>   Daniel
>
> --
>    It is hard to think of anything less sentient than a pumpkin.
>
>              -- Terry Pratchett, _Witches Abroad_