How to pass a sound name to Fmod on iPhone

Question

Is there a way to get fmod to play a sound based on sound name? I can loop out the sound name by using this code:

    for (int subsoundindex = 0; subsoundindex < numsubsounds; subsoundindex++)
    {
            FMOD::Sound *subsound  = NULL;
            char         name[256] = {0};

            result = fsb->getSubSound(subsoundindex, &subsound);
            ERRCHECK(result);

            result = subsound->getName(name, 256);
            ERRCHECK(result);

        NSLog(@"SOUND NAME %s.", name);
    }

But to play it I want to know where to inject the sound name in a code like this:

    result = fsb->getSubSound(row, &subsound);

    ERRCHECK(result);        

    result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, subsound, false, &channel);
    ERRCHECK(result);

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '11 at 23:41

It is not possible to get an FSB subsound by name, you must always use the index. There are a couple of options available to you however.

You could create a list of names, then look up the name to get the index (this would probably be faster than scanning each subsound.
You could use an include header, FSBankLib can produce a header file generated from the names that go into the FSB which you can use as macros to the index of a subsound.
You could use FMOD Designer, and instead of Sounds, use Events, these can be looked up by name.

How to pass a sound name to Fmod on iPhone

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