FLASH: help buttons and sounds?related question

[Krista McLean]

Please don't laugh -

I have been fighting with a similar problem all afternoon -

if i have 3 buttons (all with individually triggered audio MC's) should it

not be possible to set up a variable calling for the current frame in the

audio MC? This way if the sound is not finished playing the second will not

start and merge?

I thought i would start with it all a little simpler to see if i could get

this going -

However, I can't get this to work - I am wondering if i am just going in the

wrong direction , or if my lack of actionscript knowledge is holding me

back? Not sure if I need an "else" or what the "else would be...

At this point each button sets all others but itself back to frame 1, but i

don't want them to overlap - sound 1 playing over sound 1 if the button is

pressed twice, also don't want a second button push to start the audio again

from the 1st frame -


at this point each button has something like this - anyone with an

explanation of where i am going wrong?


On (Press)

       Begin Tell Target ("/sound1")

             Set Variable: x = _currentframe

       End Tell Target

       Begin Tell Target ("/sound3")

             Go to and Stop (1)

       End Tell Target

       Begin Tell Target ("/sound2")

             Go to and Stop (1)

       End Tell Target

       If ( /sound1:x <  1)

             Begin Tell Target ("/sound1")

                   Go to and Play (2)

             End Tell Target

       End If

End On



K


 >

 >A simpler scheme but not quite the effect you described is that when each

 >button is pressed it has a Stop All Sounds action and also uses TellTarget

 >to play a movie clip that contains the associated sound starting in that

 >movie clip's second or third frame. But this won't let each sound finish --

 >it will clip the sounds if buttons are pressed in rapid succession.

 >

 >Marc Hoffman



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