Stop a sound instead of all

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#1

I’m building a small game that has a background music and other sounds… there is a sound that I want to be played when the user hit a key, but then, when the user release that same key, I wish I could stop playing that sound only, not all sounds. Is there a way to accomplish that?

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#2

Not that I know of. I asked for this already but I don’t think there was really a response. There might be a way to do it without the built-in functions.

#3

(Full credit goes to pumpkinhead for this)
In key pressed, use this:

project.bgMusic = this.project.getAssetByName(“sound.mp3”);
project.bgMusic.play();

In key released, use this:

project.bgMusic.stop();

You just need to set the sound to variable, then you can use stop()

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#4

dude you legend pumpkinhead

thanks bluecake for showing this, maybe i’ll use this to my advantage on a project

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#5

i saw the original post, seems like you have trouble looping, i’ll see what results i get.

#6

I found a workaround for the looping thing. Since all of my projects are eventually going to be exported as HTML, I just used a document method to add audio instead. It’s not…really ideal when working inside the wick editor, there are several drawbacks, but when I export the project as HTML everything functions how it should, so I’m satisfied with that for now. That being said, I’ll try to look more into looping sounds in Wick.

#7

Let me try that. Thanks

#8

Have you tried that? It is not working… at least not the way that you put it.

#10

Thank you for your help… It is not what I’m looking for… I was looking for something more similar to what you replied earlier from @pumpkinhead

#11

@Luxapodular, it is hard to believe that the Wick API does not have a stopSound(“sound.mp3”) kind of function… Do you have an unofficial workaround for this?

#12

There’s actually a stopSound function included in the wickengine.js file, it looks like this:

stopSound(id) {
var asset = this.getAssetByName(assetName);

if (!asset) {
console.warn(‘stopSound(): No asset with name: "’ + assetName + ‘"’);
} else if (!(asset instanceof Wick.SoundAsset)) {
console.warn(‘stopSound(): Asset is not a sound: "’ + assetName + ‘"’);
} else {
return asset.stop(id);
}
}

It just…doesn’t actually work in the editor. By the way, are you saying that the keypressed/keyreleased thing doesn’t work for you? (I thought you were asking about HTML audio)

#13

Sorry for the confusion… I never mentioned the html audio under this specific topic.
It is more related to the topic…

It is not the keypress part… it is more related to start a sound and stop that sound alone.

#14

Ah I’m sorry, the order of the comments confused me ;-;
Personally this worked for me:
stopOneSound.wick (117.4 KB)
(Sound will play when pressing space and should stop when not pressing space)

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#15

Let me check that… thank you @bluecake.

#16

It is working… It seems that It should be associated to a frame object, not a clip object. That is why it was not working for me before… @bluecake and @pumpkinhead… Thank you so much!

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#17

Actually, since you are not specifying any key under the keypress tab, it sounds when you press any key.

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#18

You’re right, I must’ve imagined I typed the if(key===“space”) part (I think because that’s what I typed earlier when I was just testing it out to see if it worked). But I forgot it this time. On a side note, I didn’t actually realize that KeyPressed works for any key if you don’t specify a key, I thought you had to specify a key for it to work…well, I’m glad I learned that at least

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