[Heini]

Hi Chris,

its me again…
I would like to play a welcome-sound after loading the mainscreen of the game. Therefore I call the Component.onCompleted-function from where I call the play function of the welcomesound object. But it seams that the first sound after loading the game always gets “eaten” and does not play (seams like sound is not enabled yet at this point…). When i push a menubutton which should also play a sound i have the same problem: if its the first time any sounds gets played after gamestart, the sound does not play. All following sounds play well.

Greetings

Heini

[ChristianFelgo Team]

Hi Heini,
do you use the BackgroundMusic or the Sound element? The BackgroundMusic would have an autoPlay property, which is set to true by default so it is loaded at app startup.

Could you provide the relevant source code how you are playing the sound please?

Cheers,
Chris

[Heini]

Hi Chris,

I used the Sound element. Using BackgroundMusic the playback starts just before the scene is painted and this is not what i wanna do.
Now i made a workaround by using the Sound element with a timer but i´m not sure if the interval of 1000 ms is matching on all systems.

Bye

Heini

[ChristianFelgo Team]

It depends where you put your BackgroundMusic item – it will start playing in onCompleted by default when autoPlay is set to true. You could also set autoPlay to false and then trigger the play with the Timer approach you already mentioned.

If you put the sound loading to a Timer where the Scene is drawn (trigger the onCompleted for that), you should be fine on all system. In general, it is a good idea to keep the inital loading time low. You can accomplish that with the Loader item, where the scenes are not loaded at app startup, but only when you set the source property. It is done this way in the updated versions of Squaby and Chicken Outbreak which will be available this week as part of the major update.

Cheers,
Chris