Mute Button

[crocque]

How can I make one button that will stopAllSounds in every MC, in every timeline. Basically I need a global stopAllSounds command.

Thanks for your time.

[gSOLO_01]

code:

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_btn.onRelease = function() {

	stopAllSounds();

};

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[rctroub]

Hey,
I may not be 100% correct, but you cn just get a button with the command

on (release) {
    stopAllSounds();
    }

It worked for me, i hope I was a help.

[crocque]

That will only stop sounds on the current timeline, right? I need to make it work for all timelines in my movie. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks for respondng anyway.

[oldnewbie]

StopAllSounds() will stop all playing sounds, but is not a mute action really. As soon as Flash encounters a new sound start (such as in a movie clip that continues to loop), then that sound will be heard as will any other sound start, Flash may encounter.

[crocque]

OK, I understand. So what can I do to make a mute button? I need the user to click the button and all sounds stop, then when they click it again, all sounds start again. Any ideas?

[oldnewbie]

I guess the only way would be to use different soundObjects, and to stop all of them on this one mute button.

How many sounds do you have playing at the same time anyways? You'd want to mute buttons' punctual sounds and all others also?

[crocque]

I want to stop the background music and button sounds. I'm not familiar with objects yet. How can I make a sound object? Thanks a lot for trying to help me out newbie.

[mykrob]

hey, croque,
take a look at www.kennybellew.com for all things sound.
This should give a firm understanding of sound objects and all their funtions

-myk

[oldnewbie]

Yeah, Myk! That's what I was getting at!

In fact re-reading Kenny's How to Control Independent Sound Objects Simultaneously, I understand that if you use sound objects and want to be able to independently control the volume of each one of them, ...each sound object must be associated with its own unique movie clip.... Otherwise ...Any call to a method of a sound object, such as setVolume, will affect all sound objects that are the child of that particular timeline....

So if Crocque didn't associate sounds with their own movie clips, and did set the volume of one of his sound objects to 0 (thus muting it), it would also mute all other sounds objects. Only thing left to check would be to see if setting back the volume of one of these objects back to 100, would do so for the rest of the sound objects?

[mykrob]

something i did for small sound files was to load them dynamically as opposed to embedding them into the flas file..
for example

//button noise
bNoise = new Sound();
bNoise.loadSound("mySound.mp3", false);

this will load the mp3 into the object bNoise, and you can access it like this:

on(rollOver) {
     bNoise.start();
}

this is only good for very small sound files... i load them in while the main preloader is running so they'll be ready once the move begins


hope this helps some....

-myk

[crocque]

Thanks everyone. That link helped alot. BTW this is a desktop tutorial of my company's software, not for the web, so no loading. It's the biggest project I've worked on yet. It was a tough one for me as an intermediate Flash developer. Note to self: "Always map out your navigation first". When I'm done, I'll give a link so you all can see it if you want.