Thanks for looking into this, Tim!
I have just put a very simple test class together: it loads a piece of music from the Internet (doesn't matter which sound though, you can replace the path with something local if you want), sets the device volume to 50% and then plays the music.
When I load this onto my PlayBook (1.0.8) or my old 1.0.6 Simulator, it works as expected: no matter what the volume was set to before in the device settings, the music plays at medium volume, and when you open the device settings > Sounds I see the slider has moved to about 50%. Moving the slider by up or down by hand, obvioiusly changes the music's volume .
When I load it in the 2.0 Simulator 2.0.0.7109, the music only plays barely audible, and the volume slider in the device settings is a) unaffected by the audio.setOutputLevel(50) command, and b) when I move it manually there is also no effect on the actual volume of the music.
Here is the code: (compile it with set_audio_volume and play_audio permissions)
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.TextField;
import qnx.system.AudioManager;
[SWF(height="600", width="1024", frameRate="30", backgroundColor="#cccccc")]
public class SoundTest extends Sprite
{
private var snd:Sound;
private var msg:TextField = new TextField();
private var audio:AudioManager = AudioManager.audioManager;
private var globalVolume:Number = -1; // -1 means not stored yet
private var globalMute:Boolean;
public function SoundTest()
{
super();
// support autoOrients
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
addChild(msg);
getSound();
}
private function getSound():void
{
// create a sound to check if the file is valid & access ID3 info if necessary
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.danosongs.com/music/danosongs.com-gently.mp3");
snd = new Sound();
// listen for success or error
snd.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onSoundError);
snd.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onSoundSuccess);
snd.load(url);
msg.text = "loading sound ...";
}
protected function onSoundSuccess(event:Event):void
{
msg.text = "playing";
// set the volume to mid-range
// NOTE: contrary to QNX documentation, setOutputLevel takes values between 0 and 100 (not 0 and 1)
audio.setOutputMute(false);
audio.setOutputLevel(50);
//play the sound
var channel:SoundChannel = snd.play(0);
}
protected function onSoundError(event:IOErrorEvent):void
{
msg.text = "error";
}
}
}
BTW, is there a reason that the main RIM simulator page ( http://us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simulators.jsp ) still doesn't offer a 2.0 simulator download? I found the download only after some hunting around on a page for native SDK devs (https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/native/beta/download) ...
Thanks
Anna
