Controlling Sound in a Loaded Movie

[jwoodw - Jeffrey Woodward]

Hi all,


In experimenting with sound in Flash 5 I've reached a stumbling block that

has me perplexed.  I've got a movie clip in which I created a sound object

using the Actionscript Reference Guide's suggestions.  I imported a sound,

selected the sound in the Library and chose "Linkage" from the Options menu

to give it the identifier "mySound", and in the first frame of the movie

included the following script:


s = new Sound();

s.attachSound("mySound");


Just for testing, I created a button in this movie with script to start the

sound as follows:


on (release) {

	s.start();

}


When played alone, this movie works fine.  The sound begins when the button

is released.


The problem comes when I try to load this movie into another movie and

target the sound to start.  I load the movie into level 1 as follows...


loadMovieNum ("sound.swf", 1);


...and then try to target the sound with a button like this:


on (release) {

	_level1.s.start();

}


The sound won't start with this code, and not even the test button in the

level 1 movie will start the sound.  I've gotten it to work by just loading

the sound into a frame and targeting the frame label with a "gotoAndPlay"

action but would like to target it as an object in order to play around with

the volume and pan controls.


Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Jeff