Re: FLASH: sound in Flash

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:20 PM 5/17/2000 , you wrote:


>I need some help with managing sound in a small MC on a website. It is

>an animation with a sound associated with a frame, similar to an

>animated gif.

>

>I don't want the sound to keep repeating (very irritating) every time

>the playhead goes over this frame. I would like it to stop after 4 or 5

>times. I am not experienced enough with actionscript to know how to tell

>it to stop after 4 or 5 times. Can this be done?


I'm sure you can get this to work in Action Script, but here's a simple 

non-Action Script approach:


I assume you're using some sort of button to trigger the rollover sound. 

Put the button in its own layer in a Movie Clip. Give it the rollover 

action Play. Put a few initial blank frames in the MC, then six frames with 

Stop actions. In the first of these stopped frames, add nothing. In the 

next four, put the sound, so that when the button is rolled over, the MC 

will play one frame at a time and the sound will be triggered. Notice the 

last stopped frame does not have a sound, so it will be silent. In the 

frame following it, put the frame action Go to Previous Frame. Once the MC 

gets to the last stopped frame, telling it to Play will just return it to 

the same silent frame.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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