[Lua] Sound not working in FSUIPC7

[Matthew Twomey]

I can't seem to get the sound working in FSUIPC7. Here's what I'm doing:

ipc.log(sound.device(0));
sound.path([[C:\]]);
s = sound.play("click2");
if (sound.query(s)) then
    ipc.log("Sound played.");
else
    ipc.log("Sound not played.");
end

Here's the result I'm getting:

(and obviously no sound is playing)

I have a 1 minute long wav file (named 'click2.wav') right in C:\ (just to make sure there were no path spaces issues). Windows can play the file fine, but I've also tried several different files.

[Pete Dowson]

Two questions:

1.  What syntax is this?  "sound.path([[C:\]]);".
Surely that should be sound.path("C:\\")

2.  Have you checked to make sure MSFS doesn't have exclusive access to your sound driver? With FSUIPC7 being a separate process, unlike in previous incarnations, that's a factor.

BTW you don't need ; at the end of each statement in Lua. I know it's a habit from C/C++ and so on. It does no harm, just not needed.

Pete

 

 

[Matthew Twomey]

1. [[STRING]] is quoted literal format for Lua. It works fine and avoids the need to escape anything, you can read more about it on lua.org. None the less, I've tried it several ways including a regular escaped string.

2. What is the best way to check this?

-Matt

[Matthew Twomey]

For #2, if it's a valid test - I can confirm that I can certainly play sounds from other Windows applications while MSFS is running and producing sound. For example I can watch Youtube videos with audio, use the media player, ...etc. I Can also play the wav file(s) in question.

[John Dowson]

Just checked this - it works in FSUIPC6 but not in FSUIPC7. I'll investigate and get back to you.

John

[Matthew Twomey]

12 minutes ago, John Dowson said:

Just checked this - it works in FSUIPC6 but not in FSUIPC7. I'll investigate and get back to you.

Ok - thank you sir!

[John Dowson]

@Matthew Twomey Please try the following: 

 

FSUIPC7.exe

[Matthew Twomey]

3 hours ago, John Dowson said:

@Matthew Twomey Please try the following: 

 

FSUIPC7.exe 588.5 kB · 1 download

@John Dowson - yep, works. Thank you!