[kde-edu]: Playing sounds ...

[Andreas Nicolai]

Hi there,

I was trying to implement sound in KTouch yesterday and found myself cursing 
after hours of trying because the Arts KDE extension are not documented (not 
even a few lines of comments in the implementation files) and the code posted 
on the edu.kde.org page is outdated (doesn't compile anylonger) and is also 
slightly misleading (lifetime of objects to short to actually hear a sound).

Anyway, if you want to have a somewhat more control when playing sounds (then 
just doing it n a fire-and-forget way), here's what you need to do:

1. create an KArtsDispatcher and KArtsServer object for the lifetime of your 
program (not like in the example, as soon as the dispatcher goes out of 
scope, that's it for the sound)

2. keep you playobject factory alive and monitor the status of your play 
objects

3. if you want to play the same sound (using the same playobject) again, you 
need to rewind it like via play_object->seek( poTime(0,0,0,"samples") );

4. you need to link against $(LIB_ARTS) and if that doesn't work try -lartskde
(why the heck isn't LIB_ARTS working on my computer???)

Anyway, I also attached a more complex example that works and has a somewhat 
better initialization routine (even though that could be improved even 
further with some error checks).

Could someone with access maybe upload those files to the webpage to help 
others and save them some time? I really hope that Arts becomes better 
documented in future...


Bye, 
Andreas

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