My problem:
I try to build a site in Flash CS3, with sounds. The sounds in the site are events (I think this is the term), I mean they are not of type:
[COLOR=Blue]var mySound:Sound = new Sound;
mySound.loadSound(“anysound.mp3”, true)[/COLOR]
but directly put in the frames. I also have sounds in other swf files that load at certain times in the main swf.
However, in the 1st frame of one of layers of the main swf file I have this:
[COLOR=Blue]var globalSound:Sound = new Sound;[/COLOR]
as a global sound for the main swf file. I also have a sound on/off movieclip in the main swf. Inside the sound on/off I have (in actions layer) animation like
[COLOR=Blue]off_btn.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndPlay(“off”)
}[/COLOR]
where off_btn is an instance of an invisible button (inv_btn) also inside of this movieclip and “off” is a label for a frame in the same movieclip from where the alpha starts to change. But because I want to mute all the sounds in the main swf and other swf files that load at certain times in the main swf, the entire code is something like:
[COLOR=Blue]off_btn.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndPlay(“off”)
_parent.globalSound.setVolume(0)
}
[/COLOR]For “re-hearing” all sounds I have:
[COLOR=Blue]on_btn.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndPlay(“on”)
_parent.globalSound.setVolume(100)
}[/COLOR]
where on_btn is another instance of the same inv_btn button and “on” is another label of another frame in the sound on/off movieclip where alpha changes back again. It works perfectly. In fact it works either I write _parent.globalSound, or _root.globalSound. It doesn’t matter for now, because, as I said, it works just fine. So what is the problem???
HERE IT IS:
I want a song to play, but without hearing other sounds. So, in the 1st frame of the mains swf, where i put
[COLOR=Blue]var mySound:Sound = new Sound;[/COLOR]
I also wrote
[COLOR=Blue]var bzn:Sound = new Sound;[/COLOR]
where bzn is the song I want to play.
I created a new testing swf file (to load it in the main swf), a testing file in wich I have a square and a triangle (both movieclips, suggesting a stop and a play button). The scripts are not directly attached to the instances of the movieclips (square and triangle), but put in the actions layer and they look like this:
[COLOR=Blue]triangle.onRelease = function () {
[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]_parent.bzn.loadSound(“bzn.mp3”, true)
}
square.onRelease = function () {
_parent.bzn.stop()
}[/COLOR]
It is ok, it works perfectly: when the testing swf file is loaded in the main swf it starts and stops the bzn song when I press (release) the “triangle” and the “square”.
The problem is that when I press (release) the sound on/off, it mutes ALL THE SOUNDS (I expected it, in fact, because of that globalSound), that means it mutes the bzn song also.
I am quite new in Flash and didn’t figure out a way to solve this problem, so I followed a logical path (at least I thought so). I got back to the sound on/off at this code:
[COLOR=Blue]off_btn.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndPlay(“off”)
_parent.globalSound.setVolume(0)
}[/COLOR]
because I thought there might be something to do. So I modified it adding a new line:
[COLOR=Blue] _parent.bzn.setVolume(100)[/COLOR]
the final code ending up like this:
[COLOR=Blue]off_btn.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndPlay(“off”)
[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]_parent.globalSound.setVolume(0)
[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue] _parent.bzn.setVolume(100)[/COLOR]
[COLOR=Blue] }[/COLOR]
thinking in my stupidity that even if all the sounds are muted (due to that _parent.globalSound.setVolume(0)) the song’s volume will be kept to 100%, so I could hear the bzn song without hearing other sounds. But it wasn’t so :-/. It seems that globalSound rules everything in my main swf (as it probably should).
So, is there anyone there who could help me with my problem? I’d really appreciate it!
