Sound timeline controls

[erikman81]

I have dragged a short soundclip onto the stage (300kb) and i want to know how i can control it with a simple on/off button? anyone know how i can do that? also is adding a short sound loop like this to the timeline an acceptable method or is there a better way? cheers

[layerburn]

There are 2 different ways to handle sound, you can have it internal or external. Which way would depend on your project needs. If you have a lot of sound and need to watch file size, then external sound would be ideal. Otherwise if you only have a sound or two and they aren't that big then internal is fine. I've attached a example .fla to show you how to handle the sound internally. The sound is imported into the library, but not placed on the stage. Instead it is given a linkage identifier and referenced via code.

You will need to import a song/sound into the example .fla i've included and give it a linkage name of song1 for the example to work, i couldn't upload it will a sound already in it sorry too big. Hope this helps.

[a_modified_dog]

as well as the comments from layerburn, there is
an excellent tutorial on using the sound object
at the link in my sig.

hth

[erikman81]

cool, cheers for the help guys