Temporarily Disable Sounds in HexChat
I recently switched from XChat to HexChat and found that my TclPlugin script to temporarily turn sounds off stopped working. Within HexChat, I didn't see a way to implement this with a plugin so I ended up patching the source directly. Here are the 3 unified diff files to apply via the patch utility.
After patching, use:
/set sound on
/set sound off
to disable and re-enable sounds.
I did submit this as a patch to the HexChat team but they rejected it with the reason "Checking the 'Omit alert when marked as being away' box disables sounds when marked as being away. #2012" which is not the purpose of this patch.
Index: src/common/cfgfiles.c
===================================================================
--- src/common/cfgfiles.c (original)
+++ src/common/cfgfiles.c (working copy)
@@ -553,6 +553,8 @@
{"perl_warnings", P_OFFINT (hex_perl_warnings), TYPE_BOOL},
+ {"sound", P_OFFINT (hex_sound), TYPE_BOOL},
+
{"stamp_log", P_OFFINT (hex_stamp_log), TYPE_BOOL},
{"stamp_log_format", P_OFFSET (hex_stamp_log_format), TYPE_STR},
{"stamp_text", P_OFFINT (hex_stamp_text), TYPE_BOOL},
@@ -836,6 +838,7 @@
prefs.hex_irc_join_delay = 5;
prefs.hex_net_reconnect_delay = 10;
prefs.hex_notify_timeout = 15;
+ prefs.hex_sound = 1;
prefs.hex_text_max_indent = 256;
prefs.hex_text_max_lines = 500;
prefs.hex_url_grabber_limit = 100; /* 0 means unlimited */
Index: src/common/hexchat.h =================================================================== --- src/common/hexchat.h (original) +++ src/common/hexchat.h (working copy) @@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ unsigned int hex_net_throttle; unsigned int hex_notify_whois_online; unsigned int hex_perl_warnings; + unsigned int hex_sound; unsigned int hex_stamp_log; unsigned int hex_stamp_text; unsigned int hex_text_autocopy_color;
Index: src/common/text.c
===================================================================
--- src/common/text.c (original)
+++ src/common/text.c (working copy)
@@ -2277,6 +2277,11 @@
char *cmd;
#endif
+ if (!prefs.hex_sound)
+ {
+ return;
+ }
+
/* the pevents GUI editor triggers this after removing a soundfile */
if (!file[0])
{