3 Making a F.A.R.T. box, a disgusting soundboard

This chapter covers

Using layouts
Making pushbuttons
Assign sounds to Pushbuttons and playing audio
Creating functions

Have you heard the term “soundboard”? A soundboard usually consists of a computer program, a physical device, or a website that has a selection of buttons. When you press a button, it plays an audio clip. The sound clip is commonly a quote from a film or a lyric from a song, and has even been sound effects. Soundboards are self-contained, requiring no outside media player; you simply press a button and sound is played.

Trumps, bottom burps, gas, pump noises are funny and make most people laugh. Farts have an amazing habit of being able to distract anyone hearing one, especially if they are playing an online game. So, in this project we will build a fun GUI that combines a selection of fart noises to create a Fluff Audio Resonance Transmission (F.A.R.T.) sound board.

WHAT YOU WILL BUILD

In this chapter you will build a F.A.R.T. Box soundboard (figure 3.1). This soundboard is a GUI with seven buttons. When the user presses a button, the app plays a fart sound. Press a different button and it plays a different fart sound. The last button closes the soundboard.

Make your own

Creating the project

Downloading and storing the audio files

Creating the Farting Functions

Closing the soundboard

Creating the GUI for the soundboard

Adjusting the size and color of the soundboard

Adding text and an image to the soundboard

Using the Box object to lay out the buttons

Coding the buttons that trigger the fart sounds

Creating a button to close the F.A.R.T. soundboard

Running and testing your GUI program

Two other things to try

Changing the background color of the buttons

Adding more buttons and sounds

Statements of fact

Using Simple Audio