Button sound and link work but cuts out

programming flash
1

Have a FlashMX button.
Inserted sounds on the button timeline for “over” and “hit/down”.
Inserted

on (release) {
getURL(“kids_zone.htm”,"_self");
}

on Frame 1 of button.

This all works fine, the sounds go off and the link works.

The problem is this:

The sound for the “hit” cuts off before finishing, since the linked page takes hardly any time to load. I’d like the entire sound to play. If I hold down the button, the entire sound plays through, and as soon as I release the button the link takes me to the next page. That’s what I’d expect to happen from the way I’ve set it up.

How do I modify it to play the whole sound (just 2 seconds) before displaying the linked page?

2

You had the sound set to “event” in the properties panel so I switched it to “start” so it should work now. Here’s your fla. =)

3

Oh, yeah. That makes sense.
Sounds like a plan, but still isn’t working.
I just get a blip unless I hold down the mouse until the sound
has finished. As soon as I release, the other page loads up, regardless of whether the sound is finished or not.

Now I know that its going to work differently when its actually on a website rather than on my local computer. There will be some delay inherent to downloading, but once its cached, a return trip will still zip past the sound.

Thanks. I’ll keep poking at it. :slight_smile: