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POUsing arrays in Objective-C trying to simplifying a lot of repeating code
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copied!<p>Hello StackOverflow gurus. This is my first question on here so I am excited to jump right in.</p> <p>I am trying to understand iOS arrays a little better and I've hit a brick wall. I am making a sound app that is using FMOD. I have everything working perfectly but I have 9 buttons that all perform nearly the exact same thing except each play a different .wav file on press then on release stop that sound. I'd like to put it into an array and simplify and shorten my code, that is where I get lost. I stripped down the code to show what I currently have going on. Any ideas?</p> <p>.h</p> <pre><code>@interface { FMOD::Sound *sound1; FMOD::Sound *sound2; FMOD::Sound *sound3; FMOD::Sound *sound4; FMOD::Sound *sound5; FMOD::Sound *sound6; FMOD::Sound *sound7; FMOD::Sound *sound8; FMOD::Sound *sound9; } - (IBAction)playSound1:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound1:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound2:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound2:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound3:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound3:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound4:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound4:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound5:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound5:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound6:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound6:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound7:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound7:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound8:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound8:(id)sender; - (IBAction)playSound9:(id)sender; - (IBAction)stopSound9:(id)sender; </code></pre> <p>m.</p> <pre><code>- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated { [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound1.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound1); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound2.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound2); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound3.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound3); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound4.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE, NULL, &sound4); ERRCHECK(result); result = sound4->setMode(FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound5.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound5); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound6.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound6); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound7.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound7); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound8.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound8); ERRCHECK(result); [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/sound9.wav", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]] getCString:buffer maxLength:200 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; result = system->createSound(buffer, FMOD_SOFTWARE | FMOD_LOOP_NORMAL, NULL, &sound9); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound1:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound1, false, &wob01); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound1:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob01->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound2:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound2, false, &wob02); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound2:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob02->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound3:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound3, false, &wob03); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound3:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob03->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound4:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound4, false, &wob04); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound4:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob04->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound5:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound5, false, &wob05); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound5:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob05->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound6:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound6, false, &wob06); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound6:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob06->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound7:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound7, false, &wob07); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound7:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob07->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound8:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound8, false, &wob08); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound8:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob08->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)playSound9:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = system->playSound(FMOD_CHANNEL_FREE, sound9, false, &wob09); ERRCHECK(result); } - (IBAction)stopSound9:(id)sender { FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD_OK; result = wob09->stop(); ERRCHECK(result); } </code></pre> <p>As you can see, all the code is just repeated. This is the only way I've been able to get it to work but I know that these can be put into an array, I just can't figure it out. Possibly an NSMutableArray and list out "sound1", "sound2", etc etc.. then assign each button a tag in interface builder? Ideally, I'd like to have one function for stopSound, one for playSound, etc. that uses a tag to play or stop the correct sound file. When using FMOD's system->createSound(), the last argument is a variable to store the newly created sound in. Is there any way to store it in an array or dictionary instead? If so I can't figure it out.</p> <p>Any advice would be MORE than appreciated. I'd love to stop beating my head against this simple issue.</p> <p>Thank you!</p>

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