iPhone audio calls

[Bob Sneidar]

Yes create a command that does the same thing. have it check the environment first. Now you have a one liner you can call in your code. The principle applies to ALL programming: If you use a bit of code repeatedly, create a command or function for it. 

Bob


On Feb 21, 2012, at 3:49 AM, Richard MacLemale wrote:

> In our latest app (which is for iOS) we use a lot of iphone audio calls to set volume channels and play sounds, like:
> 
> iPhoneSetSoundChannelVolume "Ch_1","80"
> 
> and so on.  The annoying thing is that since the Mac doesn't understand those commands, you get nonstop errors in the development environment unless you do something like:
> 
> if the environment is "mobile" then
>   iPhoneSetSoundChannelVolume "Ch_1","80"
> end if
> 
> This gets tedious when you have dozens of audio calls throughout an app.  Does anyone have a more clever way to do this?  Now that our latest app is practically done, I don't feel like rewriting all of those calls, but next time I'm thinking maybe I write a handler for it like:
> 
> on callAudio daSound daChannel
>   if the environment is "mobile" then
>      iPhonePlaySoundOnChannel daSound, daChannel, "now"
>   else
>      -- do nothing
>   end if
> end callAudio
> 
> Is that the best method, or would there be a better way?  It's a small thing but it would be nice if LiveCode just ignored these calls or something...
> 
> ---
> Richard MacLemale
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