Originally Posted by santiago

maybe PYQT is too complicated for me. Thanks for your help if you want the source i'm here, i'll try with Wxpython may i can do something of better.. there's not an Italian Faq so i leave it but i dont surrender i ll use wxpython to make something good

Originally Posted by kojacker

Lol u cant surrender, you're so close! Zip up and attach your your project files to the post and I'll have a look at the source code when I get home tonight

Originally Posted by santiago

good bless you ok
i exclude the wav files are too large (20 mega)
by the way its maefarm code i changed some thing (windows title, icons, sounds and sounds path)

Originally Posted by kojacker

Did you attach those files anywhere yet? I had a look though the thread but couldnt see any, you havent forgotten to, have you?

Originally Posted by santiago

PS: why dont you add you MaeFart to the repos? Its very funny and scary

here's the zip i hope that u can complete that, it's too hard for me as i explained above.

def repeatStartSound(self):
self.m_media.setCurrentSource(Phonon.MediaSource(s elf.soundFile))
self.m_media.play()

QtCore.QObject.connect(self.m_media, QtCore.SIGNAL('finished()'), self.repeatStartSound)

def playStopSound(self):
self.soundFile = "ultra.wav"
self.m_media.setCurrentSource(Phonon.MediaSource(s elf.soundFile))
self.m_media.play()
self.ui.stopButton.setStyleSheet("background-color: red; background-image: url(stop.png);")
self.ui.startButton.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-image: url(start.png);")

Originally Posted by kojacker

Ive added looping and the button toggle, please see the attached files. If you unzip and click main.py it'll run from your PC. I edited the sound file paths from "/opt/..." to local folder so I didnt need set up the directory structure on my PC, so you might want to change it back before sticking the code on your N900... I didnt have any mosquitos sounds so used some cowbell wavs I had on my PC

The 'about' dialog is a bit more tricky to edit in. Ideally you should create the 'about' info button with the rest of the UI on Qt Creator before generating your PyQt UI code, else your changes would be lost next time you change the GUI.

By the way, there's no need to credit maeFarm in any way. That's the beauty of open source - you're free to take code and build on it, that's why I uploaded it to the forum in the first place It's nice you took the time to tell me it was helpful to you, though, I appreciate that

Besides you can have all the blame for unleashing looping mosquito sounds on everyone, I don't want share the blame with you


lol there would be an outrage if suddenly there was a fart app in the maemo repos! Don't you know, the lack of fart apps is what makes us better than the iPhone?


It's so not hard, I made very simple changes i know you can follow! All the changes are in the main.py file

Firstly I added a variable to keep track of the current sound file, and by default it is start.wav

Code:

self.soundFile = "start.wav"

To loop the sound I made a new method called repeatStartSound(). Actually I should have called this repeatSound or something, cos it works for both Start and Stop sounds.. Ive just noticed that mistake and dont want to zip it up again .. Im lazy :P

So you can work out what it's doing.. it's setting the sound file to whatever is in the soundFile variable and then playing it. All we gotta do now is call this method when we want the sound to loop.


So what this does is connect the finished() signal of the media object (which fires when the sound file gets to the end) to the repeatStartSound method - so it starts playing again! Easy peasy

Ok now for the toggle button backgrounds, I made changes to the playStartSound and playStopSound methods. Let's take one cos they are basically the same

See what Im doing? Im setting the soundFile variable to the correct file, playing it, then using self.ui to reach out to the buttons on the GUI and changing their background colour via the stylesheets. I change the button we clicked to have a red background and the other one to the dark grey background.

Screenshot of start (no mosquito selected)
Classic mosquito selected
Extreme mosquito selected

You can pretty much change everything about the appearance you like, so play around with the stylesheet until you get the effect you prefer