Implementing sound during menus

Hi guys,

How do you implement your menu's music?

I want a single sound to play along all my menus, but I'm hitting a wall trying to implement it.

I've tried some ways already, but it won't work out.

It would be really easy if we had an event such as:

If Sound "X" is playing -> Do such.

But we don't right? :(

Well, that was easier than I expected.

You simply need a variable to control it all.

Care to elaborate? This is something that I plan on doing with my game but hadn't considered that the music would cut out between screens.

Sure:

I have a global variable called "soundPlaying", which is initially set to 0.

Whenever I enter a menu layout, I do the following:

If soundPlaying == 0 -> set soundPlaying to 1, play "menuLoop"

This way, whenever I leave the initial layout, it's always set to 1, and hence, the sound won't overlap itself.

When I go to a Level Layout, as it has a different music loop, I simply stop the menuLoop music.

When the user comes back from the level, I set "soundPlaying" to 0 again, so it starts playing again in the menus.

Nice one, thanks :)