Playing Sound, Controlling The Volume, cacko1.23 Options

[speculatrix]

I have successfully played sound like this...

CODE

#include <qsound.h>

QSound soundSample(Resource::findSound("wave"));
soundSample.play();

However, I am trying to set the volume control.. I have tried everything I can find from googling, but no joy!

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be terrible grateful!

Here's what I have so far:[/code]
Config cfgSound("Sound");
cfgSound.setGroup("System");
int oldVolume = cfgSound.readNumEntry("Volume", 0);
cfgSound.writeEntry("Volume", 66);
int newVolume = cfgSound.readNumEntry("Volume", 0);
QCopEnvelope( "QPE/System", "volumeChange(bool)" ) << FALSE;
[/code]

the code runs but the volume doesn't change..

reading it and calling readNumEntry then writeEntry then readNumEntry reveals the new value is accepted, but the volume level doesn't change!

[speculatrix]

thanks for that... looks like he does an IOCTL on the mixer device and then tells qtopia of the change! so, I am guessing the proper way doesn't work... using google I only found a few places where the official way was discussed, and one comment said that TrollTech changed the interface from the proprietary/closed versions and the public GPL one.

I shall copy this technique, although as a programmer I'd prefer to learn the proper method so as to achieve device independence!

CODE

~/build/zplayer-0.1.1/tkmix> more qtopia_volume.cpp
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/soundcard.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <qpe/qpeapplication.h>
#include <qpe/config.h>
#include <qpe/qcopenvelope_qws.h>

#include "qtopia_volume.h"

bool QtopiaVolume::setLevel(int level)
{
       int iDevice, isetlv = (level + (level << 8));

       // Set value
       if ((iDevice = open("/dev/mixer", O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
               qDebug("Syntax error in open device\n");
               return false;
       }
       if (ioctl(iDevice, MIXER_WRITE(0), &isetlv) == -1) {
               qDebug("Syntax error in set volume\n");
               return false;
       }

       // Update applet
       QCopEnvelope("QPE/System", "volumeChange(bool)") << FALSE;

       close(iDevice);

       return true;
}

int QtopiaVolume::getCurrentLevel()
{
       Config cfg("qpe");
       cfg.setGroup("Volume");
       return cfg.readNumEntry("VolumePercent", 0);
}