Re: FLASH: Sound help..please

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 09:26 AM 9/29/99 , you wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I hope someone can help me out with this cos it's buggin me.

>I have a button that says 'stop all sounds' if you click it it stops all the

>sounds (which is great) But i also have another button and when you click it

>the playhead jumps further down the time line (it's a 'skip intro' thing)

>The problem is if you click the button to stop the sounds then click the

>button to jump down the time line the sounds start playing again.  Is there

>a way to stop these sounds from coming back on?



This is a bit complicated, but works well.


Make a 2-frame movie clip with instance name "shell" and put it on the main 

timeline (you must avoid scenes for this to work correctly). Also put a 

stop action in each of the two frames.


Make two other movie clips, and put one in each frame of "shell." Give them 

each the same instance name, "sound." The second movie clip "sound" can be 

just a single empty frame.  The first movie clip "sound" should have 

labeled frames with stop actions in each, and each of those labeled frames 

should contain one of the sounds you want in your movie. For example, one 

frame might be labeled "whistle" and would have a whistle sound in it. Be 

sure to start it with a few blank frames (helps with tellTargetting).


Whenever you want to play a sound, use TellTarget as follows (this could be 

a button action or a frame action):


TellTarget (/shell/sound)

         GoTo (label: whistle)

End TellTarget


When you want your sounds turned off, use this action (button or frame action):


TellTarget (/shell)

         GoTo (frame number: 2)


To make sounds active again:


TellTarget (/shell)

         GoTo (frame number: 1)


Why it works:  When /shell is stopped at frame 1, all actions that 

TellTarget /shell/sound (label: x) will cause sound x to play. But when 

/shell is stopped at frame 2, the tellTargets won't find sound x because 

it's not in the path /shell/sound. So the action will fail but the only 

consequence will be that the sound doesn't play.  You may also need a "stop 

all sounds" if you want immediate silence.




Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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