Playing music from XML map file.. help!

[maharaja]

Hi all, and happy holidays to everyone. Here's my annual posting(lol)

To this day I have not understood how do you play a sound from an XML file?
In the good old articles on community site (Structure of an XML world file- part 1 & 2) it says to add:

<sounds>
<sound name="tada.wav">
<file>/std/data/tada.wav</file>
</sound>
</sounds>

But this dont work! The message I get is: "Unable to create sound data from /std/data/tada.wav"

I can very well play music from my C++ files but what I NEED to know is how can I play music from XML file.
The music file is perfectly ok.

Using CS & CEL 1.2.1 on WinXP with Win32 1.2_002 libraries. Everything working fine!

Any help would be highly appreciated!

cheers!

[Vincent]

Hi,

  does that work better ?

 <sounds>
    <sound name="tada.wav" file="/std/data/tada.wav" />
 </sounds>

Note that doesn't "play" the sound, it only loads it and assign it a name, so you can find and play it from code (no need to load the file beforehand)...
If you use CEL and pcsound property class, you might be able to play it, but then it all depends on how your entity is set up (behaviour, etc.).

[maharaja]

Hi,

At present I'm playing background music from code as follows:

bool ClientMain::LoadSound ()
{
  const char* fname = "/std/data/tada.wav";
  csRef<iVFS> vfs = csQueryRegistry<iVFS> (GetObjectRegistry ());

  csRef<iDataBuffer> soundbuf = vfs->ReadFile (fname);
  if (!soundbuf)
    return ReportError ("Can't load file '%s'!", fname);

  csRef<iSndSysData> snddata = sndloader->LoadSound (soundbuf);
  if (!snddata)
    return ReportError ("Can't load sound '%s'!", fname);

  csRef<iSndSysStream> sndstream = sndrenderer->CreateStream (snddata,
     CS_SND3D_ABSOLUTE);
  if (!sndstream)
    return ReportError ("Can't create stream for '%s'!", fname);

  sndsource = sndrenderer->CreateSource (sndstream);
  if (!sndsource)
    return ReportError ("Can't create source for '%s'!", fname);
  sndsource3d = scfQueryInterface<iSndSysSourceSoftware3D> (sndsource);

  sndsource3d->SetPosition (GetSoundPos (0));
  sndsource3d->SetVolume (1.0f);

  sndstream->SetLoopState (CS_SNDSYS_STREAM_LOOP);
  sndstream->Unpause ();

  //sndsrc->SetVolume( 1.0 );

  return true;
}

Now... if I instead "load" the music from XML file as:
<sounds>
    <sound name="bgmusic" file="/std/data/tada.wav" />
 </sounds>


How do I access '´bgmusic' from the code and what I have to do to 'play' it?
Sorry if it sounds too basic... never tried like this before.

Thanks!

[res]

You should be able to query that sound with the FindSoundByName() method from the iSndSysManager instance in the object registry. See: http://crystalspace3d.org/docs/online/api/structiSndSysManager.html