[Pipmak-Users] Re: sound

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

john wrote:
> hello I'm working on a game with the pipmak engine.
>  and I'm at a point where I need sound. 
> is there any way to add sound with pipmak.

There is no built-in sound support yet. There have been some ideas for 
preliminary workarounds, but they have their disadvantages too, and as 
far as I know no one has ever tried implementing them. It has been 
suggested by someone that the os.execute() Lua function could be used to 
run an external command-line sound player (such as the "playwave" or 
"playmus" examples from SDL_mixer). The "os" library is currently not 
activated in Pipmak (and I'd rather keep it that way for official 
releases), but that's a trivial change if you can compile Pipmak 
yourself. Another possibility may be using the loadlib() Lua function to 
load some self-written sound player library. This function is enabled in 
the latest Mac OS X release, I'm not sure about Linux and Windows. Both 
of these solutions have the disadvantage that they are platform-dependent.

  -Christian