Zugg Software :: View topic - Trigger which plays sound only when window is inactive?

Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 8

To give a basic example, I have a chat redirector which triggers whenever someone sends me a direct message. I would like to make it soo this same trigger will play a sound.. but only if I am not actively in the cmud window at the time. This way I'll be notified when tabbed out, and won't be bombarded and annoyed with the sounds when in a discussion with someone.

This is a feature I made a lot of use of in mushclient before changing over. No clue if it's just not possible in cmud, or if I've overlooked something simple.
Thanks in advance for any assistance with this.

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 9:58 pm

#PLAY will play media files no problem.
Not sure how to test if CMUD itself currently has keyboard focus.
I could tell you which of the windows has focus, but that doesn't seem to go null when another program has focus.

Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 8

Hrmm, while not precisely what I'm after, I could make use of that to similar effect by clicking on the chat window before tabbing out.. it would be a lot better than the only other option I've thought of so far which is turning on/off a folder of triggers manually each time I tab in/out.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:36 am

There might be a way to determine the program that has focus with lua, or one of the other languages CMUD can understand natively without installing more libraries.

Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 8

I tried a few of the other languages, settled on the checking window focus you mentioned.
I used:
#if (%curwin!=mudnamehere) {#beep} {}
I need to click the chat window before tabbing out, but it'll serve the purpose.
Thanks for the help. =3

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

It's possible with Lua. I did it with the winapi lua library available here: http://stevedonovan.github.com/files/winapi13-51gcc32.zip. Don't have the code handy, but I believe I did something like this:

Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 8

I haven't done much with Lua before, soo having a hard time figuring this out.. first thing though, where is the winapi file supposed to go? My best guess is the cmud install directory, but when I tested it there with both..

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

I believe the winapi.dll should go in the lua folder in the main CMUD directory. You also need to load it in your trigger with require("winapi"). The play command isn't working because backslash is a special character in lua strings, used for escape sequences (\n is new line, \t is a tab character, etc). For a literal backslash, you need to double it, \\.

Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 8

Ook, got the play command working easily, thanks! There seems to be no lua folder in the main cmud directory. I tried creating a folder named lua and putting it in there just to test, but regardless of where it is anything after the require statement in the script appears not to be executing, so I presume that means it's not seeing it? The odd thing is I'm not getting any sort of errors though..

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:18 am

lua5.1.dll
is in the program files/cmud folder directly, stick the api beside it

Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 8

That's where I've had it soo far, other than when I made a specific directory for it that is, it's back there now..

I was going to say I still had the same issues, but while typing this out I tried restarting the client again on a hunch and finally got an error message saying that it couldn't process because lua51.dll was missing. I copied lua5.1.dll and renamed the copy to lua51.dll, now the entire thing seems to be working.
Surprising and confusing, but pleasing.
Thanks for all of the help!