Re: FLASH: Disable Sound Button in Flash

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 06:12 AM 6/12/00 , you wrote:


>Could anyone point me to a resource that shows how I

>can add a "disable sound" button into a flash movie?

>

>Thanks,

>

>David Sparks



Hi David,

To toggle a single sound (such as a background loop) on and off, see 

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/toggle for clear instructions, a downloadable 

example, and a very compact means of achieving the effect.


If you want to disable all sounds and then enable them again, there are a 

couple of routes to go. In Flash3 I jsued to put all the sounds in a movie 

clip (/sounds) nested in another movie clip (/container). I'd then use 

TellTarget anytime I wanted one of the sounds to play. To disable all 

sounds, I'd TellTarget /container to go to a frame where /sounds wasn't 

present. This would defeat the TellTargets without any other problems (no 

error messages for instance).


In Flash4 you would still use TellTarget to play sounds, and put them all 

in a movie clip. But your toggle button could set a variable such as "mute" 

to equal 1 or 0, and every button or frame action that targets a sound to 

play could first evaluate "mute" to decide whether to implement the action 

or not. My toggle scheme (URL above) could still be helpful in building the 

movie clip that would have Set Variable Mute=1, Set Variable Mute=0, rather 

than sounds, embedded in it.




Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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