Developing iPhone/iPad/Android Apps with Corona: Adding Sound Effects
What’s a game without sound? Sound and music can turn a boring humdrum game or movie into a riveting adventure, if done correctly!
In this tutorial we are going to show the process to add a sound effect to a Corona app.
When working with Corona, you are encouraged to use the CAF file type for your small audio files. CAF was developed by Apple for use with it’s newer operating system to replace the wav and AIFF file formats.
Place your sound effect file in the same folder as your main.lua and png graphic files.
I’m starting with the main.lua file previously created for fading in and out:
local textObj = display.newText(“Hello World!”, 50, 50, nil, 24)
textObj:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255)
local mybutton = display.newImage( “button.png” )
mybutton.x = display.contentWidth/2
mybutton.y = display.contentHeight-75
local h = textObj.height
local w = textObj.width
function mybutton:tap( event )
textObj.alpha =0
textObj.x = math.random(w/2, display.contentWidth – (w/2))
textObj.y = math.random(h/2, display.contentHeight -(100 + h/2))
transition.to (textObj, {time=3000, alpha=1})
end
mybutton:addEventListener( “tap”, mybutton )
We are going to add one line of code right after the function:
media.playEventSound(“beep.caf”)
So our final function looks like:
function mybutton:tap( event )
media.playEventSound(“beep.caf”)
textObj.alpha =0
textObj.x = math.random(w/2, display.contentWidth – (w/2))
textObj.y = math.random(h/2, display.contentHeight -(100 + h/2))
transition.to (textObj, {time=3000, alpha=1})
end
See the process demonstrated:
Note: I have changed display.stageWidth and display.stageWidth to display.contentWidth & display.contentHeight for version 2.0 of Corona. As of 2.0 stageHeight & stageWidth have been depreciated.
Hey I was wondering if you could help me with this error I am getting which states:
main.lua:1: in main chunk
Runtime error: bad argument #2 to ‘_newText’ (number expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: ?
[C]: in function ‘_newText’
?: in function ‘newText’
My code for the application is:
local textObj = display.newText( “Hello World!”, x, y, native.systemFont, 24 )
textObj:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255 )
local myButton = display.newImage( “button.png” )
myButton.x = display.contentWidth/2.0
myButton.y = display.contentHeight – 75
function myButton:tap( event )
local w = textObj.width / 2
local h = textObj.height / 2
local tempT = 1000
local tempX = math.random( h, display.contentHeight – h )
local tempY = math.random( w, display.contentWidth – w )
local params = { time = tempT, x = tempX, y = tempY }
transition.to( textObj, params )
end
myButton:addEventListener( “tap”, myButton )
meant to put this on the transition tutorial
can anybody tell me how to add backgroung audio with volume level settings…
Audio isn’t really background with Corona. You have 32 channels available for audio and control the maximum level of each channel through the audio api. I have a chapter on it in my forth-coming book!