Re: FLASH: Music through separate scenes?

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 11:36 PM 8/29/99 -0400, you wrote:

>If you want the same song to play throughout, put it in a separate .swf with

>height=2 width=2.

>Using FS command and Javascript, you can even turn it on and off from the

>main movie.


Hi Wes,


Why is this a better solution? Use of Javascript limits the browsers and

users who can make use of your scheme. Using Load Movie, you can control

the sound directly within Flash; no need to add another technology.


-Marc


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From: Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media) <maildartfrogmedia [dot] com>

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>Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 4:31 PM

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Music through separate scenes?

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>> At 03:00 PM 8/29/99 -0400, you wrote:

>> >Hi Folks,

>> >

>> >If you start a sound [either in an MC or in a layer], what do you need to

>> >do to make it play through scene changes?  Will the Start command allow

>> >that?  I want to music on a site I am building that will play on...

>> >Jeff

>>

>> Start will prevent a sound from playing a second instance (that is,

>playing

>> on top of itself).

>>

>> One of the limitations of scenes is that sound will not continue from one

>> to the next, and there's no way to restart a sound and do it seamlessly.

>>

>> The best practice is not to use scenes. If that's not an option in this

>> case, put the sound in its own movie and load it on another level, so it

>is

>> immune to scene changes in the first level (level0) movie. If you need

>user

>> control of the sound, see http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/toggle.

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