Problem with sounds

[soulreaping]

Hey,

I tried to use this function to create custom error messages:

function ErrMsg takes player p, string s returns nothing
	local sound so = CreateSound("Sound\\Interface\\Error.wav", false, false, false,10,10, "")
	if(GetLocalPlayer() == p)then
		if(s != "" and p != null)then
			call ClearTextMessages()
			call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(p, 0.50, -1.00, 2.00, "|cffffcc00" + s + "|r")
		endif
		call StartSound(so)
	endif
	call KillSoundWhenDone(so)
endfunction

But the sound ain't playing.

Thanks for the helpers!

 

[Silvenon]

I don't get it, Vexorian has an already perfectly good function called SimError that does exactly what you want (I presume), and here it is.

Maybe it's better to use a global sound, like Vexorian did, it's more efficient and your version leaks anyways.

Your version doesn't work probably because the sound has to be loaded first, so it doesn't start at first. You can use this function I extracted from Anitarf's and Infrane's CinematicSystem (and modified it a bit):

function PreloadSoundPath takes string path returns nothing
    local sound snd = CreateSound(path, false, false, false, 10, 10, "")
    call SetSoundVolume(snd, 0)
    call StartSound(snd)
    call KillSoundWhenDone(snd)
    set snd = null
endfunction

Which you can use to preload sounds.