Game State Management and menu sounds

re: Game State Management and menu sounds

nstod — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:33:47 GMT

Shawn,

Would it make sense to add a couple bool properties to GameScreen called SoundOnExit and SoundOnCreation? This could default to true, and in the LoadingScreen screen (and the others you mentioned), just set these properties to false? Do you think that would work?

re: Game State Management and menu sounds

ShawnHargreaves — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:46:42 GMT

That would work for many screens, but not for things like MessageBoxScreen, which can often be brought up in response to a user button press (eg. the "are you sure you want to quit?" prompt), but also sometimes come up for other reasons (such as the "host ended the session" or "network error" messages).

re: Game State Management and menu sounds

Ron — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:47:45 GMT

Shawn,

I get an error when I try to open the Game State Management sample code. GS 3.1 tries to automatically convert it but fails because it says it cannot be converted. Something about permissions need to be changed on the solution file to allow modification....

Help?

re: Game State Management and menu sounds

ShawnHargreaves — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:33 GMT

Sounds like some of your files are set to read-only? You can change them to writable using Explorer.

re: Game State Management and menu sounds

Ron — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:29:52 GMT

Boy do I feel stupid! As it turns out, all of the files in the archive are indeed marked as read-only. I did not expect this, since the half dozen or so other samples I played with had worked just fine. I apologize for such a noob error on my part. Thanks for your time!