Why does AS3 make everything so hard?!

[flashpipe1]

I've got a simple 3 screen flash movie. Each "screen" has frames in the timeline for animation. In the first screen, I need to play an audio file until it's over, then play a video, then another audio file, then stop until the user hits the Next button. On the second 2 screens, I need to play a single audio file and time screen animations to it.

I tried hacking an mp3 player class, but, using the Back and Next button resulted in multiple sounds overlapping.

I tried making a new sound class on each of the beginning frames, but I kept getting errors.

I tried setting the AUDIO_COMPLETE command to play the timeline, but it started double calling itself and I couldn't clear it out...

Anyone have any simple way to manage a few audio calls in a file??

Thanks!

[flashpipe1]

...and, to make it better, the client just added another screen with a 2 minute audio file that plays and needs some images, a video and more images timed to specific cues...

uggg...

makes me want to go back to as2...

[5Five555]

Does AS2 make it any easier? I think the evil in Actionscript is coding in the timeline. Anyways, what errors did you get with the Sound objects? And what is AUDIO_COMPLETE? Aren't you supposed to use EVENT.SOUND_COMPLETE?

[cancerinform]

You may want to use a Singleton to play audio:
http://flashscript.biz/Flash10/inshort/PlayOneSound.php

[flashpipe1]

Thanks, maybe it's just that I'm used to the quirks of AS2 and am still getting up to speed on the OOP of AS3.

So, since I had some places where there were 2 audio files playing (background music over several narration pieces) and the fact that I have f4v files with and without audio, I ended up hard-coding everything with a new sound instance and channel for each audio file. Something like:

var s2_1:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("audio/Slide2.mp3"));
var my_channel2_1:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
my_channel2_1 = s2_1.play();
my_channel2_1.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, goNext2_1);
function goNext2_1(myevent:Event):void
{
	s2_1.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, goNext2_1);
	this.play();
}

and each video file is handled like:

video3_flv.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, onComplete);
function onComplete(evt:VideoEvent)
{
	this.play();
}
video3_flv.addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE, cleanUp);
function cleanUp(e:Event)
{
	e.target.stop();
	e.target.removeEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, onComplete);
	e.target.removeEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE, cleanUp);
}

So, that's all working fine, although it's a pain to update...HOWEVER, now I have to get the play/pause button to work and, somehow, I need to know if it's currently playing an audio or video file...I suppose I can set a variable with the name(s) of the existing element on the screen so it will know if it's a video or audio piece being played...although, that's going to be a pain to go back and add in...
ugg...