PIXI, sounds and Typescript

[charlie_says]

I've been looking at sounds - and I've got a bit stuck.

In the PIXI examples, they've got some sound demos (https://pixijs.github.io/pixi-sound/docs/index.html), these look good - but as I'm working in Typescript, and there's currently no typings file to use it with.

I think there's a way you can use it without, but I've not had much luck getting that working... (any pointers would be gratefully received)

I'm happy to use Howler (or another sound library), in fact I have the typings for Howler already - but it seemed that using this in conjunction with the PIXI.Loader, which would be my preferred route, is also a little convoluted... (and my initial experiments failed without generating any useful errors.)

Can anyone give me some guidance? 

Thanks!

 

 

 

[ivan.popelyshev]

I had the same problem a month ago. However, it was fixed.

https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-sound/tree/master/typings

And howler is fine too

However https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-sound/blob/master/package.json#L7 does contain wrong file for typings. 

I suggest you to put include the typings as a separate file, its ok to do that in TS. I use both "<reference types" and "<reference paths", sometimes i put typings into special folder and configure tsconfig.json that it looks for them (liks in https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-tilemap , lib folder).

[charlie_says]

Thanks @ivan.popelyshev - I tried adding the typings file - although it doesn't seem like there's enough in it

declare module 'es6-object-assign';
declare module 'promise-polyfill';

But adding that in doesn't get it to work for me...

Can you give me any further guidance?

 

[ivan.popelyshev]

Let us ask the author.

@bigtimebuddy What is happening?

[charlie_says]

Thanks @ivan.popelyshev - can I just check when you used the pixi-sound typings did it only have 2 lines in it? (I'm just trying to work out if I missed something obvious)

[ivan.popelyshev]

I didnt use it. I pinged @bigtimebuddy , and in the week by reading pixi-sound chat (slack. wanna join?) I got impression that he fixed it.

I'm still using howler.

Found the issue: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-sound/issues/15 , and he just confirmed that he will work on it this week. again.

Btw, that's the only pixi plugin written on TS that doesnt have typings.

OK, time to fix that. I'm making fork that doesnt use import/export. Wait two hours.

[charlie_says]

Many Thanks (I'm happy to join the pixi-sound chat!)

[ivan.popelyshev]

Done, look in your mailbox (@hotmail) for slack invitation.

[ivan.popelyshev]

https://github.com/ivanpopelyshev/pixi-sound/tree/namespace/dist

Lets try this thing. 

js file is a bit different too, so you have to download this thing, use typings from "d.ts"

please check if it works, i didnt even test it

[charlie_says]

Thanks for looking into this!

[tywang2006]

I am using howler, which is fine for typescript.

[ivan.popelyshev]

 

@bigtimebuddy took my tool-assist generated d.ts into main repo, he will update it manually.

[charlie_says]

And, I've tested it out, it works well!