Re: FLASH: Marc . . . Tell Targets for Audio

[Marc Hoffman]

At 10:52 PM 1/9/99 -0800, you wrote:

>Marc, thanx for your input.  I visited the audio playground.  I am

>interested in how you got to get the parrot to speak "random" greetings.

>Are they really random or is there a definite pattern I was unable to

>detect?

>

>~Daniel

>

John C. is the expert on this.  Yes, they are random.  It involves creating

a bunch of movie clips. Each is two frames. Frame 1 has a Stop action.

Frame 2 has a tellTarget to make the audio movie play one of its sounds (I

use labeled frames in the audio movie for targeting purposes). Each clip

targets a different sound to play.  These clips are inserted in sequential

keyframes in another clip.  They are each given the same instance name

(let's call it "playsound"). Their parent clip loops indefinitely, sits in

the main timeline, and has an instance name (call it "parent").  The button

to create the sound is on the main timeline. It has an action as follows:

On MouseEvent (press)

  Begin Tell Target

    target: /parent/playsound

   GoTo

      next frame

   End Tell Target

End MouseEvent


When the button is clicked, it targets whatever "playsound" movie clip is

current in the "parent" clip.  If a user had perfect timing, of course, the

effect would not be random.  Since no one can time their clicks within a

fraction of a second, the result is effectively random.



Marc Hoffman

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