How to lower a computer's volume with a slider

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#1

How could you lower or higher the computer’s volume with a slider?

#2

Changing the Volume of a user’s device directly isn’t possible like I know. Instead I would use Jovanny’s Sound API to manage the Volume of every Sound directly when it’s played.
You would need a slider which needs to have a value from 0 (muted) to 1 (max volume) and saves it to a global variable like window.VOL. This global variable you can now use to set the Volume of every sound with Jovanny’s Sound API.

Hope I could help!

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#3

I agree with Towim, Jovanny’s Sound API is great for working with sounds!

And although there isn’t a way to change the volume of the computer that I know of, there is an easy way to change the volume of all sounds in a wick project to a specific value

This might help with your project

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#4

How could you use this piece of code with a slider, is there a way?

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#5

Try it… just make your own slider…

[1]. Make a slider clip and call it sliderClip. Like a vertical rectangle so the user can drag it.
[2]. Then inside of sliderClip, place the left corner of the rectangle to zero in x coordinate.
[3] Limit the user to move the slider from zero to a max number in x coordinate. (example from 0 to 200px)

Then on your Howler:

let userVolume = sliderClip.x / 200;
Howler.volume(userVolume);

That will set userVolume from 0 to 1, which are the min and max inputs for Howler vollumes.

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#6

I’d like to add that there’s also a built-in “slider” asset with the built-in assets in the editor.
It uses a similar method to the one Jovanny mentioned.

(I’d recommend trying to go through Jovanny’s steps for making a slider first for extra coding practice)

I was able to make a quick simple example with it:
My Project5-15-2022_15-39-17.wick (123.1 KB)

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#8

Thank you both for your help! :)

#9

@Hamzah_Alani sorry to bother but I’m having problems with the slider, if the slider is inside many clips it won’t move either work. Do you know how to fix this?

#10

This is probably because the slider uses mouseX in order to determine where to slide to.

Try this slider instead:
slider.wick (123.1 KB)
It uses “mouseMoveX” instead of “mouseX” to move the slider.
Let me know if it works

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#11

Thank you again for your help. It worked out well!

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#12

@Hamzah_Alani I have another question about the volume with the slider, how could I be able to change a clip’s frame according to the volume levels? here is a wick file with a template, if you could please solve this it would be amazing.

#13

I see no wick file, but from how you described it, I’m guessing that you have a clip with different frames that you want to change based on the volume.

So like if the volume was 100%, you’d want it to go to the last frame, versus if the volume was 50, you’d want it to go to the middle frame ?

If so, here’s how I would do it:

// "value" is equal to the volume out of 100
// "framesCount" is equal to the total number of frames in the clip
// "Clip" is the clip that you want to have its frame changing based upon the value of the volume

var framesCount = 5; // Change 5 with the number of frames in Clip
Clip.gotoAndStop(Math.round((value/100)*framesCount))

Let me know if I’m wrong

#14

oops sorry here is the wick file I thought I uploaded it Test File6-13-2022_15-56-07.wick (10.6 KB)

#15

so if the volume is from 60 to 100 the clip will show a full volume icon but if it’s from 26 to 59 it’s a mid volume icon and if it’s from 1 to 25 it will be a low volume icon. Oh and if it is 0 it will be a volume icon with no bars

#16

I added a check in the sliders update script which changes the volume icon after your whishes.

Here’s the file: Test File6-15-2022_13-58-55.wick (10.7 KB)

Code 
let volumeValue = Math.round(this.value*100);

volumeText.text.setText(volumeValue+"%");

if (volumeValue > 59) {
    volIco.gotoAndStop(1);
} else if (volumeValue > 25) {
    volIco.gotoAndStop(2);
} else if (volumeValue > 0) {
    volIco.gotoAndStop(3);
} else {
    volIco.gotoAndStop(4);
}

Howler.volume(this.value);
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#17

Thanks! It worked out pretty well.