Re: FLASH: sound on/off: clarification

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 09:06 PM 5/29/2000 , you wrote:


>To deal with all sounds in the movie, you probably don't want them all 

>turned on again at once. You could create a 2-frame movie clip. Let's give 

>it the instance name "music clip master." In the second frame is nothing 

>but a stop action. In the first frame is a nested movie clip that contains 

>all the sounds in your movie. Let's give it the instance name "music 

>clip." Its first frame is blank except for a stop action. Each of the 

>following frames contains: 1) a different sound, with sync set to "start;" 

>2) a stop action; 3) a unique label. There should also be a blank frame at 

>the start of the nested movie clip. To play a sound, use tell target to 

>make "music clip" go to the associated frame where the desired sound is 

>located. To disable all sounds, tellTarget "music clip master" to go to 

>its second frame -- this will make all the TellTargets to "music clip" 

>fail, since "music clip" will no longer be current in the path.


I should have remembered to add that TellTargeting a movie clip to go to a 

frame that holds a sound is not really a good idea, because the sound is 

sometimes skipped. You should modify the above scheme so that the labeled 

frame is actually one or two frames before the sound and contains a Play 

action. You could then place a Stop action at or just after the sound 

actually appears in the timeline.


Also, on second thought, you might want the second frame of "music clip 

master" to have a Stop All Sounds action to mute all current sounds.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

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



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