[solved] troubles playing sounds

[Nephilim]

Hi guys,

I'm having a little trouble with playing sounds and I hope you can help me out. The following works fine:

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saythisnumber = love.audio.newSource("audio/0.mp3", "static")
love.audio.play(saythisnumber)

But this piece of code

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if numbertosay == 0 then saythisnumber = love.audio.newSource("audio/0.mp3", "static") end
love.audio.play(saythisnumber)	

generates the following error:

"Incorrect parameter type: expected userdata."

What I was actually *trying* to do, but generates the exact same error, is:

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	Now = os.date('*t') --get the date/time
	
        hour = tostring(Now.hour) -- this works, assigns value XX to 'hour'
	minutes = tostring(Now.min)
	seconds = tostring(Now.sec)

	sayhour = ("snd" .. hour) -- this works, generates a string that contains "sndXX"
	sayminutes = ("snd" .. minutes)
	sayseconds = ("snd" .. seconds)

love.audio.play(sayhour)

(Ofcourse I did sndXX = love.audio.newSource("audio/XX.mp3", "static") somewhere in the code above.

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Robin]

You can't play a string:

"hello" is not the same as hello.

You have snd00 = <blah> somewhere?

I actually suggest you use a table:

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snd = {}
snd["00"] = <blah>

Makes everything easier.

You then do:

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love.audio.play(snd[sayhour])

[Nephilim]

Thanks a lot! I'll try that. Ofcourse I kinda figured the strings were the problem, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to solve it another way, except for using a million if's.

Thanks again.

[Nephilim]

It worked! Yay! Thanks loads.