How to make a pause and mute button in MenuOptions?

SpatkplusTwelve · August 2014

I've been trying to use the MenuOptions passage of my story to make a pause and mute button for the music, but it's not going very well. I can get both of them to turn the sound off, but I can't figure out how to turn the sound on. I tried looking at the example file for MenuOptions, but I didn't really get what I'm supposed to do to make the EnsureOptionsExist widget work. This is the code I am currently using.

:MenuOptions <<ensureOptionsExist>>\ <<optiontoggle "pause" "Pause">> Pause the music? <<onchange>> <<pausesound $music>> <</optiontoggle>> <<optiontoggle "mute" "Mute">> Mute all sound? <<onchange>> <<stopsound $music>> <<set $sound = "muted">> <</optiontoggle>> :Widget <<widget "ensureOptionsExist">><<if Object.keys(options) eq 0>><<setOptionsToDefault>><</if>><</widget>> <<widget "setOptionsToDefault">> <<set options.pause = false>> <<playsound $music>> <<set options.mute = false>> <<set $sound = "audible">> <<saveoptions>> <</widget>>

TheMadExile · August 2014

You're only pausing/stopping your audio within the <<onchange>> sections, when what you actually want to be doing is toggling the audio states. For example:

:: MenuOptions <<ensureOptionsExist>>\ !Sound Options <<optiontoggle "pause" "Pause">> Pause the music? <<onchange>> <<if options.pause>> <<pausesound $music>> <<else>> <<playsound $music>> <</if>> <</optiontoggle>> <<optiontoggle "mute" "Mute">> Mute all sound? <<onchange>> <<if options.mute>> <<stopallsound>> <<set $sound = "muted">> <<else>> <<set $sound = "audible">> <<playsound $music>> <<playsound $ambient>> <</if>> <</optiontoggle>>

[EDIT] Fixed a few misspellings.

SpatkplusTwelve · August 2014

That doesn't seem to be working. Now the music just won't pause no matter what I do. Is there something I should be changing in the widget passage?

TheMadExile · August 2014

The problem is that I misspelled options as option in the example I gave. Change that and it should work.

Note, however, that the example doesn't cover interactions between pause and mute. Frankly, I don't see why you need both. You'd probably be better off simply using a single "Enable audio/sound" option.

As to changing the widget. I'd probably suggest not putting non-option setting in <<setOptionsToDefault>>, since it only gets called when the options don't exist. You'd be better off putting the other settings in StoryInit.

I'll attach an example of what I mean.

SpatkplusTwelve · August 2014

Okay. Thank you for the help! It works now, and I've just pared it down to a mute button!

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