Re: [Flightgear-devel] Questions about controlling sound systems using nasal

[<wki...@gm...>]

On 11/10/19 8:18 AM, Sidi Liang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to make a music player using nasal. As there is no docs for the sound 
> playing fgcommand at all, I used the sound configuration xml for playing sounds. 
> However, I found that it's impossible to change which file to play in runtime 
> using nasal as it seems that only path are accepted in sound configuration xml 
> instead of property, and I don't have write access to the sound configuration 
> xml file. I even tried to find a way to make the aircraft use a xml file located 
> in FGHOME but ended up in total failure.

i'd bet the ATCChatter addon in FGAddon would be a help and offer some hints on 
a way to do exactly this... i assume it still works properly in today's code...

[time passes]

yes, it is still WAD* :)

    72.20 [INFO]:view       Splash screen progress binding-subsystems
    75.41 [ALRT]:nasal      Request detected to initialize Advanced Weather on 
startup...
    75.75 [ALRT]:nasal      Volcanic activity on.
    75.92 [ALRT]:nasal      initialising the mp lag system
    76.63 [ALRT]:nasal      Loading local weather routines...
    77.88 [ALRT]:ai         Submodels: Unable to read AI submodel list
    78.12 [ALRT]:nasal      NasalEmesaryInterface::MainLoopNotification started
    78.12 [ALRT]:nasal      [SGExclusiveThread] Exclusive thread started
   137.54 [ALRT]:nasal      [OK] 'ATC Chatter' (V. 1.0.0) loaded.
   137.54 [ALRT]:nasal      ATC Chatter initializing...
   137.54 [ALRT]:nasal        chatter directory is 
/home/myuser/flightgear-dev/fgaddon-ng/Addons/ATCChatter/sounds/UK
   137.54 [ALRT]:nasal        found 198 files
   137.54 [ALRT]:nasal      ATC Chatter initialized.
   137.54 [ALRT]:nasal      next chatter in 30 seconds
   138.60 [ALRT]:nasal      setWeight() - not supported for ufo
   143.36 [ALRT]:nasal      Starting hard-coded terrain presampling
   172.32 [ALRT]:nasal      update atc chatter ukatc133.wav
   172.32 [ALRT]:nasal      next chatter in 32 seconds
   204.63 [ALRT]:nasal      update atc chatter ukatc134.wav
   204.63 [ALRT]:nasal      next chatter in 22 seconds
   226.80 [ALRT]:nasal      update atc chatter ukatc135.wav
   226.80 [ALRT]:nasal      next chatter in 23 seconds
   249.99 [ALRT]:nasal      update atc chatter ukatc136.wav



*WAD: working as desired

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