Re: [Pipmak-Devel] new features in Pipmak

[Aidan G. <wgs...@ih...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> Hi Aidan,
> 
>      Running Lua code immediately after a certain sound stops playing.
> 
> 
> I think that adding this possibility can be very useful!
> 
> It would be useful also if someone would to concatenate different sounds 
> (when finish one, then start another).
> For example, some time ago I tried to add voice messages, and I didn't 
> want to record a sound for each message,
> but I wanted to compose the message using a dictionary of words...(like 
> TomTom do....)
> So the message "the door is closed" was composed by 4 sounds played in 
> sequence "the" "door" "is" "closed",
> but this is difficult with actual pipmak sound APIs.
> 
> One possible implementation could be adding the method "onsoundstop"
> 
> mysound = sound "mysound.ogg"
> mysound:onsoundstop (
>      function ()
>      ....
>      end
> )
> 
> Another implementation:
> 
> onsoundstop( function(sound)
>     if sound:getfilename() == "sound1.ogg" then ..... end
>     if sound:getfilename() == "sound2.ogg" then ..... end
> end
> )
> 
> offcourse adding also the method getfilename()

I like the first one.  No idea where to start with putting this in Pipmak 
though.  It would probably be pretty simple once I get started.


>     2.
>     Problem: Restoring engine settings from variables in the state table
>     (specific
>     to a particular Pipmak project file).
> 
> 
> I think that the simple way should be add the possibility to read/write 
> text file....I asked to add this to Pipmak some time ago,
> but Christian have an hard position about that.....
> Off course, if you really want, you can use lua loadlib function  and 
> write a DLL or SO lib file to add file read/write API.
> I have already writen a DLL to do this (sorry just for Windows....), if 
> you need it I can send you.

I don't need an IO API, I just need a way of triggering the execution of Lua 
code when the user opens a saved game for that particular project file.

>  
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Andrea