Re: FLASH: Start/Stop Music button

[Paul Kaiser]

Hello,


1. Get a button symbol into your movie on its own layer. You must make sure

this layer has frames throughout the entire length of the movie, or your

button will disappear.

1a. Import a sound clip.

2. Make a movie symbol. We'll call this "The sound". It will contain the

background sound(s) you want to play.

3. In "The sound":

-- Double-click frame 1

-- Under "Actions" choose "Stop". This will stop the movie clip's progress

here at frame 1 after we start the sound. (in the next step).

-- Under "Sound" choose the sound clip you want and choose "Start" for Sync.


We have the sound started, now we need to allow for it to be stopped.


-- Add a keyframe in frame 2.

-- Under "Actions" choose "Stop".

-- Under "Sound" choose the sound clip you chose to Start earlier and

choose "Stop" for Sync.


We have the sound stopped, now we need to create a Loop back to the starter

frame (you'll see why in a minute.)


-- Add a keyframe in frame 3.

-- Under "Actions" choose "Goto and Stop" to frame 1


Now, go back out an edit your movie.


4. We're now editing the main timeline.

-- Drag an instance of "The Sound" movie clip out onto your main movie.

-- In the "properties" window of this instance, give this sound movie clip

a name. Here, I will call it "mySound".

-- This allows us to target the sound movie clip in our actions.


5. Double-click the button you have in your main timeline.

-- Under actions, choose "Tell Target".

-- You should be able to choose "mySound" from the target editor

automatically. If you cannot, something is probably wrong. It will show up

as "/mySound", because "/" means that the target is at the "root level" of

your movie and "mySound" is obviously the name of the movie.


6. After Tell Target, choose "Goto Next Frame".

-- You are now finished.


What happens when you run it:

-- The sound in the movie clip starts and then the movie clip hits a Stop

action to stay right there.

-- You hit the button and it goes to the Next frame in the movie clip,

which tells the sound to stop playing. The movie clip then Stops to hold

right there.

-- You hit the button again and it goes to the Next frame, which tells the

sound movie clip to go back to the Play frame again.


That should do it!


If you want a sample Doc of this little blurb just let me know and I'll

email it to you.


Paul Kaiser




doubt very  much or the tutorial is missing something or not clear enough.

  Can someone point me to a better tutorial about creating an  Start/Stop

Music button? Any help is appreciated.  

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>Taco  Fleur




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