Thread: How to stop all sound in a C# program

Hi all,
Now I am programing a game in C#. So I use many sound events (moving, punching, screaming...). I create a Mute button, when running program. when users click on Mute, all sound will be disabled. So, i want use a system call from thread library, some thing like that...I have searched in MSDN but no feasible result. Somebody answer me, please. Many thanks!

Originally Posted by C_ntua

They way I had implemented it is to use a bool variable for all sounds and check that before you play the sound. The Mute button will just set that variable.

If you want to be more elegant and maybe save re-writing code and stuff, you can create your own Play() method and put the actual method that plays the sound in there. Then give it parameters and make it check internally for the "muteAll" bool variable. Then simply do a Find-Replace to replace all previous play methods accordingly and you are done.

You can use other methods if you want to actually mute the volume. You can use DirectX for that matter. I have some code for that (unfortunately wasted) that I can give you here if that is the solution you want. Of course it is more complicated than what I mentioned above and less efficient since why play the sound if nobody will hear it?

Thanks you. I have used a bool variable to control my sound function, so I want a function that can be used in many cases. I hoped thread supported that.