Re: [Freeciv-Dev] adding sound

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Bastian Hecht wrote:

> 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).

Use esound instead.  It~s part of the gnome project and though it has its
fair share of bugs it handles lots of diferent sound file formats (WAV,
AIFF, etc) and means you don~t need to do that fork(), etc.

Per I Mathisen was working on sound support for the Freeciv client using
esound but i~ve not heard anything about it for a long time.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa, student @ Instituto Superior Tecnico,
Technical University of Lisbon - Software & Computer Engineering