Audio/XACT

Re: controlling if a cue loops or not

Ahnda — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:21 GMT

Tom Wolle:

You could have a look at the XACT game sample and the audio.cpp and go from there.
You are looking for "XACTNotificationCallback".

Tom

Is it possible to make use of notifications in C#?

Re: controlling if a cue loops or not

Tom Wolle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:43:11 GMT

You could have a look at the XACT game sample and the audio.cpp and go from there.
You are looking for "XACTNotificationCallback".

Tom

Re: controlling if a cue loops or not

JohnWestMinor — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:56:18 GMT

So could someone post some sample code on how to use XACTNOTIFICATIONTYPE_CUESTOP ?

Re: controlling if a cue loops or not

Tom Wolle — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:39:38 GMT

Hi Scott,

thanks for the quick answer and sorry for my late reply.
Well, I thought that I would need to do something like that but luckily I don't anymore. ;)

Greetings,
Tom

Re: controlling if a cue loops or not

Scott Selfon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:58:01 GMT

Hi Tom,

Cues themselves don't technically loop - they can play a sound that loops though. But if you want to dynamically (through code) control the looping behavior, one straightforward way would be to keep the sound itself non-looping. When you start playing the cue, register for a XACTNOTIFICATIONTYPE_CUESTOP notiifcation on it, and when that notification fires, retrigger the cue. If you're concerned about a possible gap between the stop and restart, the content creator can set the cue to be intance limited to 1 (only 1 plays at a time), and set any subsequent retriggers of that cue to 'queue' (rather than replace, fail, etc.). Then you as the programmer could register for the XACTNOTIFICATIONTYPE_CUEPLAY notification, and use that to trigger the next instance, which the XACT engine will keep queued until the previous one finishes.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Scott

controlling if a cue loops or not

Tom Wolle — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:22:44 GMT

I guess this isn't possible but I'll ask anyway.
Is there a way to control if a cue loops or not through code?