Way to, globally throughout the game, mute channel if skipping?

[SuperbowserX]

Is there a way to set up the game so that sound effects (played through the sound channel) will be disabled if the player is currently skipping through text? I've realized it might be annoying to the end user to have SFX from lines and lines of text ago playing from a moment they skipped through a second ago (but that the normal user who was not skipping would've heard a minute or a few ago).

Preferably a way to do it without changing every "play sound ..." line. Thanks

[philat]

Hmm. Hypothetically, you could have an on "show"/"hide" action to mute the sfx mixer on the skip screen. Haven't tested it though.

[PyTom]

You can add a function to config.interact_callbacks that checks to see if config.skipping is true-ish and mutes the channel.

[SuperbowserX]

@philat - I found screen skip_indicator(): but I don't know what screen-compatible value can be passed into it that mutues the sound channel.

@pytom - I did a ctrl+shift+f (searches all files in the \game directory) for "config.interact_callbacks" and nothing was found.

[philat]

As for interact_callbacks, I'll defer to PyTom of course, but I think the issue there is that it's only optional -- you wouldn't find anything defined by default. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... _callbacks

As for the screen, I imagine it would be something along the lines of:

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screen skip_indicator():
    on "show" SetMute("sfx", True)
    on "hide" SetMute("sfx", False)
    # the rest of the screen unaltered

See here for more audio related screen actions that you could look into. I haven't tested this.

ETA: Er, meant to copy/paste a link here (obviously) and forgot (facepalm). Glad you worked it out, adding for posterity. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_a ... io-actions

[SuperbowserX]

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    on "show" action SetMute("sfx", True)
    on "hide" action SetMute("sfx", False)

did the trick, thanks phi