Muting the System Sound from an app
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I have a button in my options menu to disable the sound. It can be toggled on/off during gameplay. I am using OpenAL. I don't want to kill all active sounds currently playing, I just want to actually MUTE the system sound, so that when it turns back on, all previously playing sounds will still be playing. Is there a function that will let me do this? Thanks.
edit: OS = WindowsXP, Language = C++
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You might want to be carefull when playing with someone's system sound settings. I got in trouble for that with my first game's beta a few years ago. Problem was that if it crashed, it didn't restore the settings to their original values, so...
Anyway, what if you set the position value in OpenAL for something really far away... wouldn't that effectivly mute the sound?
Anyway, what if you set the position value in OpenAL for something really far away... wouldn't that effectivly mute the sound?
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Quote:Original post by Sam Gamgee
Anyway, what if you set the position value in OpenAL for something really far away... wouldn't that effectivly mute the sound?
Sounds a bit hackish, but it works. Easy to implement too :P Thanks for the replies.
I haven't used OpenAL enough to know how it works but what I've done in the past using (FMod and Miles) is that if there is not global mute function, you can emulate it by setting the master volume to 0 or iterating through all sounds and manually muting them (and in your play sound function, be sure to immediately mute any new sound).
Here's how to mute the system mixer using the Win32 API:
I hope you'll forgive me for the poor commenting and formatting, but it's rather late around these parts.[smile]
EDIT: I had forgotten to include the appropriate header. Code updated.
[Edited by - shuma-gorath on July 9, 2005 12:43:13 PM]
#include<windows.h>#include<mmsystem.h>//Mutes the system mixervoid mute(){ MIXERLINE mixer_line_info; //Structure for info regarding a mixer line mixer_line_info.cbStruct=sizeof(MIXERLINE); mixer_line_info.dwDestination=0; mixerGetLineInfo(NULL,&mixer_line_info,MIXER_GETLINEINFOF_DESTINATION); //Get mixer line ID //Structure for info regarding a line control (mute control in this case) MIXERLINECONTROLS mixer_line_ctrl_info; mixer_line_ctrl_info.cbStruct=sizeof(MIXERLINECONTROLS); mixer_line_ctrl_info.dwLineID=mixer_line_info.dwLineID; mixer_line_ctrl_info.dwControlType=MIXERCONTROL_CONTROLTYPE_MUTE; mixer_line_ctrl_info.cControls=1; mixer_line_ctrl_info.cbmxctrl=sizeof(MIXERCONTROL); MIXERCONTROL mixer_ctrl_info; //Structure for info regarding the mixer control mixer_line_ctrl_info.pamxctrl=&mixer_ctrl_info; /*Get the ID of the mixer line control of interest (mute control)*/ mixerGetLineControls(NULL,&mixer_line_ctrl_info,MIXER_GETLINECONTROLSF_ONEBYTYPE); //Structure containing the flag used to set the new mixer mute state MIXERCONTROLDETAILS_BOOLEAN mute_state; mute_state.fValue=true; //Structure of details regarding the control that is about to be changed MIXERCONTROLDETAILS control_details; control_details.cbStruct=sizeof(MIXERCONTROLDETAILS); control_details.dwControlID=mixer_ctrl_info.dwControlID; control_details.cChannels=1; control_details.cMultipleItems=0; control_details.cbDetails=sizeof(MIXERCONTROLDETAILS_BOOLEAN); control_details.paDetails=&mute_state; /*Mute system mixer*/ mixerSetControlDetails(NULL,&control_details,MIXER_GETCONTROLDETAILSF_VALUE);}I hope you'll forgive me for the poor commenting and formatting, but it's rather late around these parts.[smile]
EDIT: I had forgotten to include the appropriate header. Code updated.
[Edited by - shuma-gorath on July 9, 2005 12:43:13 PM]
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