Re: FLASH: can FL4 play external sound files?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 06:14 PM 6/29/99 -0400, you wrote:

>is there a way to get flash to call on an

>external .swa or.mp3 file?

>

> FS command?

>

>any help would be greatly appreciated.

>

>	  miguel angel hurtado



Hi Miguel,


You can always put the sound in another HTML document and have Flash get

the URL into another frame (you might want to use a hidden frame for this).

See Colin's tutorial on opening a pop-up window.

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/ for how to use the hidden frame

routine. Requires JavaScript. To turn off the sound, use Get URL to replace

the other frame with a blank document.


You could use that same technique for playing Beatnik files, too, and use

Flash to control Beatnik's playback using FS Command and Javascript, I

believe. Nigel has information on this at

http://members.tripod.com/NigelR/. Once you get through the detection pages

for Flash4 and Beatnik plug-ins, mouse over  "ab Jove principium" and then

select "Beatnik." 



Marc Hoffman

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

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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