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[vertex67]

this gives me an error message

game start:

global.s1=sound_add('s1.wav',0,1)
show_message("sound loaded")
sound_play(global.s1)

this gives me the error message "sound does not exist" after showing my message "sound loaded"

this is really frustrating

Edited by vertex67, 24 November 2009 - 12:51 AM.

[SenakuJin]

debug should be:

if(global.s1!=-1){show_message("sound loaded")}

The function returns -1 if it was unable to load the sound.

[vertex67]

ah, thanks, I figured it would give an error if the file didnt exist. so thats the problem, but I dont understand why

I have the sound with the file name s1.wav in the same directory as the gmk file.

Edited by vertex67, 24 November 2009 - 12:28 AM.

[RowanFN]

yea but is the file called s1, so it would be s1.wav (if its a wave file) or is it called s1.wav then it might be s1.wav.wav

if u get my meaning

[SenakuJin]

Try:

if(file_exists(working_directory+"\fname")){"show_message("File exists"));

If it returns that it dose not, try loading it through gm (not gml) see if it works okay.

If it dose work, change:

global.s1=sound_add('s1.wav',0,1);
to
global.s1=sound_add(working_directory+"\s1.wav",0,1);

[vertex67]

I will try that, thanks, btw, the sound is called s1 but it is a wav file, so it should be 's1.wav' i believe.

[vertex67]

strange, I got it to work after quitting and reopening, and adding my sounds with execute string like this

global.s[0]=0
for(n=1;n<=36;n+=1){
execute_string("global.s["+string(n)+"]=sound_add('s"+string(n)+".wav',0,1)")}

thanks for the comments and debug help