Move the espeak stuff into it's own function, might help get it to behave.

So far, got partial behaviour, seems to have stopped pausing rest of
scripts text output until script end.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/aataaj.lua b/aataaj.lua
index 16838ca..59e58f1 100755
--- a/aataaj.lua
+++ b/aataaj.lua
@@ -180,31 +180,39 @@ print('')
 io.flush()
 
 
+local speak = function(card, subdevice, device, words, printIt, forkIt)
+        if printIt then print(words) end
+        if forkIt then
+            __('#!/bin/bash\necho "' .. words .. '" | ' .. speaker .. ' -d ' .. card .. subdevice):noErr():noOut():fork()
+        else
+            __('#!/bin/bash\necho "' .. words .. '" | ' .. speaker .. ' -d ' .. card .. subdevice):noErr():noOut():Do()
+        end
+--      io.flush()
+end
+
 if 'start' == arg[1] then
     print('Your ' .. cnt .. ' audio devices are ')
     for  k,C in pairs(Cards) do
-        print('' .. C.card - 1 .. ' : ' .. C.name)
-    __  ('ALSA_CARD=' .. C.card - 1  .. ' ' .. speaker .. ' "Your  ' .. cnt .. '  audio devices are "'):log():noErr():noOut():fork()
+        for  j,c in ipairs(C['playbackDevs']) do
+            speak(C.name, C['playbackDevs'][j], C.card - 1, 'Your  ' .. cnt .. '  audio devices are - ', false, true)
+        end
     end
     -- TODO - should do a proper "wait for speakers to finish" here.  Have fork(write a file), think that's what :wait(file) does.
     __'sleep 6':Do()
-    print('')
-    io.flush()
     for  k,C in pairs(Cards) do
-        print('' .. C.card - 1 .. ' : ' .. C.name)
-        __('echo "' .. C.card - 1 .. ' : ' .. C.name .. '"')
-        __('ALSA_CARD=' .. C.card - 1  .. ' ' .. speaker .. ' "Device number ' .. C.card - 1 .. '  ' .. C.name .. '"'):log():noErr():noOut():Do()
-        io.flush()
+        for  j,c in ipairs(C['playbackDevs']) do
+            speak(C.name, C['playbackDevs'][j], C.card - 1, 'Device number ' .. C.card - 1 .. ', ' .. C['playbackDevs'][j] .. ' : ' .. C.name, true, false)
+        end
         __'sleep 1':Do()
     end
-    print('')
     io.flush()
 
+    print('Please type the device number you heard best - ')
     for  k,C in pairs(Cards) do
-        print('' .. C.card - 1 .. ' : ' .. C.name)
-        __('ALSA_CARD=' .. C.card - 1  .. ' ' .. speaker .. ' "Please type the device number you heard best."'):log():noErr():noOut():fork()
+        for  j,c in ipairs(C['playbackDevs']) do
+            speak(C.name, C['playbackDevs'][j], C.card - 1, 'Please type the device number you heard best - ', false, true)
+        end
     end
-    io.write('Please type the device number you heard best - ')
     local choice = tonumber(io.read())  -- Lua has no way of just checking IF there is ANY input, so can't do "check if there was a keypress, continue if not".
     local ourCard = ''