`SetCVar("MasterSoundEffects", 0)` then `..., 1)` is the only way a 1.12 addon
can stop a sound that is already playing, and the reference's stop is
indiscriminate: `0x7a67a0` walks the live instance list and stops every node in
it, whoever started them. That is fine while one addon at a time uses the toggle,
and this install has two that use it for opposite ends — SoftSpoken to stop its
own clip before replaying it and to duck the game's NPC bark, unitscan to make
sure of a channel for its alert (`unitscan.lua:55-59` is the pair, then
`PlaySoundFile`). It is not aimed at anybody.
grom: "unitscan sound will interupt softspoken reading something, this is really
annoying, I still want the unitscan sound but for softspoken to not be silenced."
Nothing in the toggle separates the two uses, so the caller does.
`PlaySoundFile` and the toggle each now carry the addon whose file made the call
— attribution by chunk name, since an addon's files load as
`@Interface\AddOns\<Name>\<file>`. A cut still stops every kit-played bark, which
is the game's own audio and what an addon ducking "the sound" means by it; among
`PlaySoundFile` audio it stops only the calling addon's own. Both of SoftSpoken's
uses survive intact: stopping its own clip is cutter == owner, and ducking NPC
dialogue is a kit.
A deviation from the reference, written down in `docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md` with the
two reports on either side of it, together with the Who-list font colours and the
73%-opaque tooltip art behind the unreadable map tooltip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
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