overloading the mute behavior

[Gog]

Hi

Disclaimer:I'm a totally new to studio.
What I'm hoping for is to trigger the execution of an external command every time mute is turned on or off.

A bit of background: I use Sonos for the audio output of one of my HD200. Sonos doesn't have an "off" so the only way I have to power down the amp (I use a ZP100) is to either stop the audio play (which I can't do in "line-in" mode) or mute the zone.

There is a simple command tool, zpcmd.exe, that should allow me to do that but I need to trigger that with the mute/unmute events

Now I found the mute check in the OSD, IsMuted(), that's checked to set the color of the volume icon and the call to SetMute(!IsMuted()) and I'm betting I could add a few bits there to call zpcmd.exe. The problem is that I think I'd have to do those changes to every screen and I'd end up with something completely unportable.

There must be a better way to do this...

thanks

Mathieu

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Gog

Hi

Disclaimer:I'm a totally new to studio.
What I'm hoping for is to trigger the execution of an external command every time mute is turned on or off.

A bit of background: I use Sonos for the audio output of one of my HD200. Sonos doesn't have an "off" so the only way I have to power down the amp (I use a ZP100) is to either stop the audio play (which I can't do in "line-in" mode) or mute the zone.

There is a simple command tool, zpcmd.exe, that should allow me to do that but I need to trigger that with the mute/unmute events

Now I found the mute check in the OSD, IsMuted(), that's checked to set the color of the volume icon and the call to SetMute(!IsMuted()) and I'm betting I could add a few bits there to call zpcmd.exe. The problem is that I think I'd have to do those changes to every screen and I'd end up with something completely unportable.

There must be a better way to do this...

thanks

Mathieu

Gog,

I would do this in java myself if you want some help I would be happy to lend a hand.

[GKusnick]

Dropping into Java seems like overkill for this. It shouldn't take more than a line or two of code at each Mute listener (of which there are only a couple in the stock STV).

My advice would be to start by reading through the Studio user guide and working the tutorials, with special attention to the sections on Listeners.

[Gog]

I don't really mind going the studio way but I use SageMC and SMW and I'd rather not have sound at all than dropping any of these

Plucky, am I to understand that going through java would allow the change to apply to each "mute" call ?

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Gog

Plucky, am I to understand that going through java would allow the change to apply to each "mute" call ?

I don't know what Plucky has in mind, but I don't see how Java is going to help with that. You'd still need to trigger off of the Mute listeners in the STV.

Having found those listeners, you wouldn't have to copy and paste identical code to each one. You could write the code just once, and then paste in a reference to it (sort of like a subroutine call) at each listener, which is a bit cleaner than actually duplicating the code.

[Gog]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

I don't know what Plucky has in mind, but I don't see how Java is going to help with that. You'd still need to trigger off of the Mute listeners in the STV.

If I had to take a guess, the java part would be to do the external call...

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Gog

If I had to take a guess, the java part would be to do the external call...

You can do that from Studio code using the ExecuteProcess() API call. You can also call arbitrary Java methods directly from Studio code without having to drop into a Java environment. (In fact that's how you drop into Java from Studio: you write a custom Java class and call its methods from Studio code. But for a one-liner like this, that shouldn't be necessary.)

[Gog]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

You can do that from Studio code using the ExecuteProcess() API call.

Thanks for that bit. My aimless wander of the API doc hadn't found that method yet.