Re: FLASH: Layered buttons & sounds

[John Croteau]

Hi Marc,


> Thanks for the help.  However I haven't been able to get it work.  A couple

> of things are not clear to me (read on):

I may understand completely how you wanted this to work. It very much

depends on the sounds.


> >The basic setup is a two frame Movie Clip.

> >In the first frame place 4 concentric buttons.

> >  0, 1, 2, 3

> Did this.  Made 0 the largest, 3 the smallest, and stacked them in layers

> so 3 is on top.

This is the easiest way.



> >Place the first Event sound in Button 1, second in 2 and third in 3.

> >In Button zero place either a Stop All Sounds or 3 Sound Stop events.

> >When the button 3 is moused over you will have a Go to Action to the

> >Second Frame.

> I put the sounds into the Over frame of each button in symbol edit mode.

> Is this what you meant?  I left all buttons as Track as Button.

Yes, but the technique I descibed will have sounds coming in one at a

time layered thus when you get to Button 3 all 3 sounds would be

playing.


> >The Second frame will also have 4 buttons.

> >   Frame 3 will habve a button that has no Sound function.

> >   Frame 2 will have a Stop Sound 3 Action.

> >   Frame 1 will have Stop Sounds 2 and 3.

> >   Frame 0 will have either a Stop All sounds or Stop Sounds 1, 2, & 3.

> I assumed by "Frame 3" you meant Button 3, etc.  I created 3 new concentric

> buttons for this so that they would not have the sounds embedded.  In their

> instances in the movie clip I created the actions as you advised.  I did

> not know if the movie clip needed to loop, so I didn't insert any other

> actions (stop or Go to 1).

Correct Should say Button not frames.

Yes you need a stop action in frame 1 of this and most Movie Clips.

In fact if you are making a Movie Clip unless you specifically want it

to loop you generally want a stop action (most often in Frame 1).



> The results were quite mixed, almost random.  Sound 2 wsa most

> unpredictable.  I also got sounds looping on top of one another.

I probably didn't understand how you wanted it to work, so answer the 3

questions below for me first before I revise or explain a technique: 


1) Layered (one sound added to the next) or consecutive (one after the

other)


2) Can be truncated or must play each sound completely


3) Each sound - Play once or Looped


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