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

[Stuart B. <stu...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 3:38 PM wrote:
> > 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...

Not quite sure why you'd want an in-sim music player, though I note
that the G1000 include
XM Radio, which I haven't bothered to implement.

However, the tutorial system supports audio prompts, so will provide
good code for this.

-Stuart