APWidgets multiple instances of a single sound

porfa

I am trying to create a laser sound effect for my game. Everything works great, except a new instance of the sound won't play until the previous one has finished. I was wondering how to make an ArrayList of sounds, if possible, so the sound will properly play with the creation of each laser.

I am currently using apwidgets as my sound library, and I am going off this example of code: https://code.google.com/p/apwidgets/wiki/APMediaPlayer_example

porfa

shameless self bump

calsign

Can you provide the code for what you have so far?

porfa

Here is a snippet of code from a larger project.

import apwidgets.*;

PMediaPlayer player;

void setup() {
  player = new PMediaPlayer(this); //create new APMediaPlayer
  player.setMediaFile("laser_shoot1.wav"); //set the file (files are in data folder)
  player.start(); //start play back
  player.setLooping(true); //restart playback end reached
  player.setVolume(1.0, 1.0); //Set left and right volumes. Range is from 0.0 to 1.0
}

//--------Laser Class---------------

class Laser {
   Laser() {
     player.start();
   }
}

calsign

I think you should create a separate PMediaPlayer for each Laser. Then you can create it in Laser's constructor and start looping it, removing the need for an ArrayList of PMediaPlayers... only an ArrayList of Lasers.

porfa

I'm getting an unexpected token error now, at the line indicated, at "new".

class Laser {
  float radius, x, y, speed, velocityX, velocityY, direction, targetX, targetY, distance;
  float timer; 
  boolean destroyed, orange, red, purple, yellow, cyan, white;  
  int c;

  Laser(float _playerX, float _playerY, int _c) {
    radius = 21/2;
    speed = 12;
    x = _playerX;
    y = _playerY;
    c = _c;
    targetX = mouseX;
    targetY = mouseY;
    direction = (atan2(targetY-y, targetX-x));
    velocityX = cos(direction)*speed;
    velocityY = sin(direction)*speed;

    PMediaPlayer player;


    player = new PMediaPlayer(this); //create new APMediaPlayer ****Error Here****
    player.setMediaFile("laser_shoot1.wav"); //set the file (files are in data folder)
    player.setLooping(false); //restart playback end reached
    player.setVolume(1.0, 1.0); //Set left and right volumes. Range is from 0.0 to 1.0
    player.start();
  }


  void draw() {
    update();
    display();
  }

  void update() {

    timer--;

    velocityX = cos(direction)*speed;
    velocityY = sin(direction)*speed;

    x += velocityX;
    y += velocityY;

    if (x > screenWidth - 20 || x < -20 || y > height + 20 || y < -20 ) {
      destroyed = true;
    }
  }

  void display() {
    imageMode(CENTER);
    if (c == 1) {
      fill(222, 126, 47);
      orange = true;
    }
    if (c == 2) {
      fill(255, 0, 0);
      red = true;
    }
    if (c == 3) {
      fill(141, 21, 175);
      purple = true;
    }
    if (c == 4) {
      fill(245, 250, 2); 
      yellow = true;
    }
    if (c == 5) {
      fill(3, 250, 173);
      cyan = true;
    }
    if (c == 6) {
      fill(255); 
      white = true;
    }
    ellipse(x, y, radius*2, radius*2); //Make this a laser
  }
}

GoToLoop

If you meant line #22, perhaps you should take a look at this recent post below: <):)
http://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/2239/minim-in-a-new-tab#Item_3