TARGET- Playing Sound Files

Thanks to lxsapper,

A quick function that will allow the playing of a wav file with a button/switch action/

Put that in a .tmh file and call it with EXEC("PlaySound();"). Replace sWavPlayer with any command line player, and have it in same folder as .wav to be played.

Super simple.

Thanks again lxsapper.

OP

include "target.tmh"
include    "Sounds.tmh"


//program startup
int main()
{
   if(Init(&EventHandle)) return 1; // declare the event handler, return on error
   
EXEC("PlaySound()");        //This should play wav file on script start.
   
}

//event handler
int EventHandle(int type, alias o, int x)
{
   DefaultMapping(&o, x);
   
   //add event handling code here
}

int    PlaySound()    {
system ("spawn -w \"D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\" \"D\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\\swavplayer Snd_TEST.wav\"");
}

just a guess but do you need to specify an executable to run the wav file?

"wavplayer.exe D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\\TARGET_DOWN_Layer.wav"");

I have no experience in "Target" however as a software developer it makes sense.

Ya, I'm pretty lost at this point.

I made a .bat file that ran and plays, but I have no idea how to get TARGET to execute it.

I think TheHog is right SGT Coyle, you need to call upon the executable to run the wav file, Target as far as I know can only execute executable files, but your code looks like you are trying to call upon the .wav file directly.

I got it working with this code:

system ("spawn -w "e:\\sWavPlayer" "e:\\sWavPlayer\\sWavPlayer.exe untitled.wav"");

I cannot get the thing to work on a button press. It will not compile. I can't complile you code for a button press eighter:

MapKey(&Throttle,LTB, EXEC("system("spawn -w "D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files" "D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\\TARGET_DOWN_Layer.wav"")"));

OK,

So had no luck getting anything to compile or load, so starting from scratch, this is what I've got to compile and run:

Sound_Play_TEST.tmc

include "target.tmh"
include    "Sounds.tmh"


//program startup
int main()
{
   if(Init(&EventHandle)) return 1; // declare the event handler, return on error
   
EXEC("PlaySound()");        //This should play wav file on script start.
   
}

//event handler
int EventHandle(int type, alias o, int x)
{
   DefaultMapping(&o, x);
   
   //add event handling code here
}

Sounds.tmh

int    PlaySound()    {
system ("spawn -w \"D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\" \"D\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\\swavplayer Snd_TEST.wav\"");
}

The above Compiles and runs without error, but of course no sound plays.

Edited my OP to start over.

If that is the exact code you are using you are missing ":" and a couple""in there:

int PlaySound() {

system ("spawn -w "D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\" "D:\\DCS_Device_Profiles\\Common_Files\\swavplayer Snd_TEST.wav\"");

}

I got it working, and it's very similar to what you have.

This are the relevant parts of what I'm using:

include "targetdx128.tmh"

include "DCS_XsMacro.ttm"

include "_DCS A-10C_128.tmc"

 

int main()

{

SetShiftButton(&Joystick, S3, &Joystick, H4U, 0, 0); // IO Shift and UMD Setup

 

MapKeyIOUMD(&Throttle, CHF, EXEC("ProfileA10C();"), DX36, DX36, DX36, DX36, DX36);

}

int ProfileA10C()

 

{

system("spawn -w "d:\\TARGET Profiles\\Sounds" "d:\\TARGET Profiles\\Sounds\\sWavPlayer.exe a-10c.wav"");

}

I had to place the swavplayer.exe in the same folder as my .wav's, I counldn't get it to work any other way.

I keep getting :

Compile Error:Syntax error: d in Sounds.tmh at line 3

I actually cut n paste your code in. Just changed the folder name.

The forum is deleting backslashes from the copy/pasted code. Probably why yours isn't compiling for me, and mine for you.

So here is an image from the code in target:

Got It running.

Thanks Lxsapper.

I was messing around more with playing .WAV files and thought the following would be useful. A function call to make it easier to play .WAV files. The following examples are complete .tmc files which you should be able to copy and paste into the TARGET editor. There should be no copy and paste issues related to the forums cutting out characters as mentioned in previous posts.

There are two versions. Both are intended that you store all your .WAV files in a single folder (e.g. a Sounds folder in your Scripts folder). The first example expects that sWavPlayer.exe is in the same folder as the .WAV files. The second example allows for sWavPlayer.exe to be in a different folder than the .WAV files (e.g. c:\bin\sWavPlayer.exe). It was mentioned before this 2nd example didn't work because sWavPlayer.exe expects the .WAV file to be in the same folder. But sWavPlayer.exe works with files in a different folder if you give it a full path to the .WAV file. Below shows how to do it in TARGET.

The main difference is, the first one uses "spawn -w" to set the working folder for sWavPlayer.exe, but then sWavPlayer expects the .WAV files to be in the same folder. The second example just uses "spawn" with no -w option and uses full path names to both sWavPlayer.exe and the folder where you store your .WAV files. You could do the file paths many ways. I provided two examples to help everyone understand how to build a system("spawn"); command using variables and defines to configure full paths. The trick is to use sprintf() to concatenate the strings together in to buffer.

Don't forget to set SOUNDS_Folder and sWavPlayer_Folder to match the path to your .WAV files or where you store sWavPlayer, as well as change the name of the .WAV file used (I am playing a file called failure_beep.wav.

First Example: sWavPlayer.exe and .WAV files in same folder

include "target.tmh"

int main()
{
   if(Init(&EventHandle)) return 1; // declare the event handler, return on error

   MapKey(&Throttle, LDGH, EXEC("PlayWav(\"failure_beep.wav\");"));
}

//******************************************************************
// PlayWav()
//	Function to play a .WAV file using sWavPlayer.exe
//	sWavPlayer.exe can be downloaded from here:  http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/swavplayer/
//
//	Set SOUNDS_Folder = the folder where you store sounds.  Make sure sWavPlayer.exe is also stored in this folder. 
//	Make sure to use \\ for all occurrences of \ in the path.
define SOUNDS_Folder	"C:\\Users\\mike\\AppData\\Roaming\\Thrustmaster\\TARGET\\Scripts\\Sounds\\"
int PlayWav(alias wavfile)
{
   if (&wavfile == "") return 0;			// exit if no parameter given

   printf("PlayWav playing file:  %s\xa", &wavfile);
   alias f = SOUNDS_Folder;
   char buffer; Dim(&buffer, 256);			// max command length is 256 characters
   sprintf(&buffer, "spawn -w %s %ssWavPlayer.exe %s", &f, &f, &wavfile);
   printf("buffer = %s\xa", &buffer);
   system(&buffer);
}

//event handler
int EventHandle(int type, alias o, int x)
{
   DefaultMapping(&o, x);
}

Second Example: Separate paths for sWavPlayer.exe and the .WAV files.

include "target.tmh"

int main()
{
   if(Init(&EventHandle)) return 1; // declare the event handler, return on error

   MapKey(&Throttle, LDGH, EXEC("PlayWav(\"failure_beep.wav\");"));
}

//******************************************************************
// PlayWav()
//	Function to play a .WAV file using sWavPlayer.exe
//	sWavPlayer.exe can be downloaded from here:  http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/swavplayer/
//
//	Set SOUNDS_Folder = the folder where you store sounds.  Make sure sWavPlayer.exe is also stored in this folder. 
//	Make sure to use \\ for all occurrences of \ in the path.
define SOUNDS_Folder	"C:\\Users\\mike\\AppData\\Roaming\\Thrustmaster\\TARGET\\Scripts\\Sounds\\"
//	Set sWavPlayer_Folder = the folder that contains sWavPlayer.exe
define sWavPlayer_Folder	"c:\\bin\\"
int PlayWav(alias wavfile)
{
   if (&wavfile == "") return 0;			// exit if no parameter given
   
printf("PlayWav playing file:  %s\xa", &wavfile);
   alias f1 = SOUNDS_Folder;
   alias f2 = sWavPlayer_Folder;
   char buffer; Dim(&buffer, 256);			// max command length is 256 characters
   sprintf(&buffer, "spawn %ssWavPlayer.exe %s%s", &f2, &f1, &wavfile);
   printf("buffer = %s\xa", &buffer);
   system(&buffer);
}

//event handler
int EventHandle(int type, alias o, int x)
{
   DefaultMapping(&o, x);
}

And if you want a way to do Text to Speech in TARGET, the following uses Windows mshta.exe to execute some vbscript to speak the given text. Paste in TARGET and run it to try it out. Don't forget when using this in an EXEC(), you must use \" (a backslash before the quote) in order to escape the quotes and properly pass them to Speak(). See usage examples below.

include "target.tmh"

// Disable Speak() output - disabled =0, enabled =1
define	SpeakEnabled	1

int main()
{
   if(Init(&EventHandle)) return 1; // declare the event handler, return on error

   Speak("Script Loaded");
   Speak("Press LDGH to say more");

   MapKey(&Throttle, LDGH, EXEC("Speak(\"Hello World\");"));
}

//******************************************************************
// Speak()
//	Text to Speech - this function uses Windows mshta.exe and a simple Visual Basic script to perform text to speech
//	text - the text or phrase to speak
//	The concept of using mshta vbscript was found here:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1040655/ms-speech-from-command-line
//	No extra programs are required for this to work.
int Speak(alias text)
{
   if (!SpeakEnabled) return 0;		// disable TextToSpeech sounds
   if (&text == "") return 0;			// exit if no parameter given

   //printf("Speaking:  %s\xa", &text);
   char buffer; Dim(&buffer, 256);
   sprintf(&buffer, "spawn mshta vbscript:Execute(\"CreateObject(\"\"SAPI.SpVoice\"\").Speak(\"\"%s\"\")(window.close)\")", &text);
   system(&buffer);
}

//event handler
int EventHandle(int type, alias o, int x)
{
   DefaultMapping(&o, x);
}

Awesome! I'll be trying that toot sweet.

Thanks for this Drakoz.

And as a sidenote I didn't say swavplayer couldn't play files in a diferent directory. I didn't know how to do it with Target, because putting the path down was giving me syntax error. Thank you for solving it!

Thanks for this Drakoz.

And as a sidenote I didn't say swavplayer couldn't play files in a diferent directory. I didn't know how to do it with Target, because putting the path down was giving me syntax error. Thank you for solving it!

Yes, that is what I thought. Hence why I posted two examples, each of which deal with the paths differently. Figuring out how to manipulate strings and alias's is kind of confusing in TARGET because TARGET doesn't handle strings quite the same as normal C.