How to stop a sound through interaction?

[Jo'ogn]

Rephrased question:
How can I make a sound behave like the voice object? i.e. replay stops when the player skips, or fast-forwards lines.

"voice" uses the config.interact_callbacks, how is it properly used for that purpose?

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Original Post:
The "voice" statement has a few features the ordenary "play" has not. E.g. voice is stopped when the player skips a line (interact).

Is there a parameter to make play behave in the same way. Or perhaps adding channels to "voice" to get that behaviour?

[jack_norton]

Remember that if player is in skip mode though, and the voice is still played full length, the result could be quite "cacophonic"

[killdream]

Remember that if player is in skip mode though, and the voice is still played full length, the result could be quite "cacophonic"

Hm, I guess he was talking about making the play statement behave like the voice statement, and not the other way around.

You can try registering a new channel using voice mixer, although I didn't test it and have no idea if it'll work or not xD

[jack_norton]

Ah yes I read badly sorry
The only solution I can think of would be to put a stop command after each line with play, but isn't really a good solution...

[Jo'ogn]

You can try registering a new channel using voice mixer, although I didn't test it and have no idea if it'll work or not xD

This is what I am doing atm. That's why I am asking if it's possible to stop a sound played when skipping or clicking away lines. Using the voice mixer alone does no inherit the same behaviour to the new channel.

[killdream]

You can hook Ren`Py function to show dialogs.

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init -1 python:
    def custom_display_say(who, what, who_args={}, what_args={}, window_args={},
                     image=False, side_image=None, two_window=False,
                     two_window_vbox_properties={},
                     who_window_properties={},
                     say_vbox_properties={},
                     variant=None,
                     **kwargs):
        # stop any current playing sound
        renpy.music.stop(channel="sound")
        
        # displays the dialog
        return renpy.show_display_say(who, what, who_args, what_args, window_args,
                     image, side_image, two_window,
                     two_window_vbox_properties,
                     who_window_properties,
                     say_vbox_properties,
                     variant,
                     **kwargs)

Then you just need to create characters that uses your custom display function instead of Ren'Py default one. You can even redefine the narrator character to use this function too.

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init python:
    engel = Character("Engel", show_function=custom_display_say)
    
    # with this you can change the default Ren'Py narrator :D
    narrator = Character(None, show_function=custom_display_say)

[Jo'ogn]

Thanks killdream, but it seems too complicated to change an entire say behaviour if all I want is to stop a sound from playing. Stopping sounds through interactions could also be desired on other occasions.


I rephrased my question in my first post, I figured out by reading through the source code that "voice" is an object using a callback to prevent the playback, but I don't know how to make it work for, say, a dedicated channel I want to behave in the same way.