Most efficient way to create grid of squares that each play a different sound?

[steakor]

Hi there,
I've created 6 rows, 24 columns long of identical square active objects.
When the user clicks on one they play a sound.

Being a coding novice I'm just copy and pasting in the event editor and then pointing to the new sound over and over.

Currently this is a huge amount of code and I just wondered if there was a better way to do this?

Is there a way to use just use one active object that is duplicated and has a different alterable value depending on where it's positioned and then
this looks for a file name named correctly to tell it which sound to play?

Thanks in advance.

[Nyc]

Just create one active object with alterable value name like ID which will be programmatically created in a grid fashion when frame loads. You can then assign unique or random ID basing on objects positions which would allow you to play different sounds basing on ID

[steakor]

Thanks for replying.

That's just what I've been trying at the minute, I've been playing round and I've used loops to create the grid from one active object. And I've assigned Alterable values to each so they all have unique values.

Any tips on how to code the sound file bit?

[Nyc]

I'll try to make you an example when i get to my pc

[steakor]

That's really kind of you, looking forward to it, thanks!

[steakor]

Did you get a chance yet?

[Nyc]

Yes. But it wasn't easy as I thought. May be someone could help.

[King_Cool]

This should be easy.
Is the final design meant to be playing audio files from a specific directory/ location on the disk?

[Popcorn]

Create the squares in a nested fastloop like suggested above, and store the square's ID in alterable value A. Rename alterable value A to ID.
When the user clicks on a square, run a fastloop named "Play sample " + str$(ID("Square")) 1 time.
Then have On Loop conditions for each sample like this: On loop "Play sample 0" -> Play sample "Gong". On loop "Play sample 1" -> Play sample "Boing" etc.....

[steakor]

Hi there, thanks for the suggestions.

The idea was that this would be an app for my android device so the sounds would be internal I guess?

Basically it's 6 rows, 24 columns long of a guitar fret board. So that'll be 144 different sound FX to represent the different notes on a guitar. Mianly making it so I can practice on my commute

Because it's so many sound files I was hoping there was an easier way to code the file it looked for... as in if the object IDs were from 1-144 and my sounds were named 1.ogg - 144.ogg, would there be some way to hook this up more simply?

Thanks for the help.