This companion object of class Sound provides methods for creating new Sound objects.
It has an alias in the top-level package o1, so it’s accessible to students simply via import o1.*.
- Companion:
- class
Value members
Concrete methods
Loads a sound sample from a URL or a local file. The sound needs to be in one of these formats: WAV, AIFF, AU, AIFC, SND.
Loads a sound sample from a URL or a local file. The sound needs to be in one of these formats: WAV, AIFF, AU, AIFC, SND.
- Value parameters:
- id
a path or URL that identifies the sound sample; this needs to be a classpath-relative file path or an URL, as specified for the parameter of
o1.util.tryForURL- volume
an adjustment to the sound’s volume: a positive number makes it louder, a negative one quieter. Pass in
Muteto make the sound completely silent. If unspecified, defaults to zero.
- Returns:
the sound; if a sound matching
idcould not be located, if the system doesn’t support sound, or if sound support is disabled, returns a silent Sound whoseisDefinedmethod returnsfalse
Loads a sound sample from the given URL. The sound needs to be in one of these formats:
WAV, AIFF, AU, AIFC, SND. Throws an IOException if the URL is inaccessible.
Loads a sound sample from the given URL. The sound needs to be in one of these formats:
WAV, AIFF, AU, AIFC, SND. Throws an IOException if the URL is inaccessible.
- Value parameters:
- url
a URL to a sound sample
- volume
an adjustment to the sound’s volume: a positive number makes it louder, a negative one quieter. Pass in
Muteto make the sound completely silent.
- Returns:
the sound; if the system doesn’t support sound, or if sound support is disabled, returns a silent Sound whose
isDefinedmethod returnsfalse