Re: FLASH: actions: stopping ALL sounds help

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 12:46 PM 11/17/1999 , you wrote:

>I just realized that a button action I was using to "stop all sounds"

>actually only stops the current sound playing in the movie; the sounds kicks

>in again later when the timeline reaches  another sound event.



That's what "stop all sounds" is supposed to do. It doesn't prevent new 

sounds from starting, it just kills all sounds that are currently playing.


For a scheme that allows the user to toggle a background sound loop on and 

off, see http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/toggle. This includes a downloadable 

example and step-by-step instructions.


It is possible to create a scheme where all sounds are disabled. One such 

scheme involves placing all sounds in frames of a movie clip. The frames 

all have labels and stop actions. You use TellTarget to send this movie 

clip to the frame label where the sound you want is located. But in fact 

you nest this movie clip inside another movie clip so that you can use 

TellTarget to make it available or not. Yes, this is complex, but basically 

you're making the first set of TellTargets succeed or fail, which makes the 

sounds trigger or not.  I'm not sure if there's a tutorial on this method 

or not. Unfortunately I haven't had time to create one, but if you get 

familiar with TellTarget you should be able to figure it out.




Marc Hoffman

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

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My Flash Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

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