Re: FLASH: sound on/off

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:28 AM 5/28/2000 , you wrote:

>Hi,

>

>What's the best way to make an on/off button, in a flash movie?

>I discovered the 'stop all sounds' action, but how to turn it on again?

>

>greets,

>Ruben Fontijn


To toggle the background loop on and off, see 

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/toggle. This will turn the looping background 

sound on and off without affecting other sounds.


To deal with all sounds in the movie, you probably don't want them all 

turned on again at once. You could create a 2-frame movie clip. Let's give 

it the instance name "music clip master." In the second frame is nothing 

but a stop action. In the first frame is a nested movie clip that contains 

all the sounds in your movie. Let's give it the instance name "music clip." 

Its first frame is blank except for a stop action. Each of the following 

frames contains: 1) a different sound, with sync set to "start;" 2) a stop 

action; 3) a unique label. There should also be a blank frame at the start 

of the nested movie clip. To play a sound, use tell target to make "music 

clip" go to the associated frame where the desired sound is located. To 

disable all sounds, tellTarget "music clip master" to go to its second 

frame -- this will make all the TellTargets to "music clip" fail, since 

"music clip" will no longer be current in the path.


Some time I'll write up a tutorial on this since it's a common request. It 

could also be done using Action Script to control the tellTargets.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

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



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