Trouble sleeping...(controlling sound in MC?)

[podenphant]

Hi there

It's now 5.18 in the morning, I couldn't fall asleep becuz of the following problem

I have a MC, "soundsgood", with 3 different sounds in different frames. After each sound there is the frameaction "stop".

Whenever a condition i fullfilled I tell the target "soundsgood" to "play". This works fine but only the first time through. After that there is no sound?

I've traced the frame number of "goodsound" and it is playing as it should. But for some reason the sounds are not played.

if (_root.flip1._currentframe == 2 && this._y>330 && this._y<415) {
_root.score = Number(_root.score+1);
tellTarget ("_root.soundsgood") {
play ();
}

Please help me get some sleep this morning
Kris

BTW: Isn't there a better syntax than this?
tellTarget ("_root.soundsgood") {
play ();
}
Have a look at it here...
http://www.hawaii.person.dk/smackthefish.swf



[Edited by podenphant on 11-02-2000 at 12:10 AM]

[selcuk]

Try embedding your sounds into different movieclips, I've experienced a problem like yours; in my case, I needed three differnt sounds to be played in three different events. Putting sounds in different movieclips somehow works...

Isn't there a better syntax than this?
tellTarget ("_root.soundsgood") {
play ();
}
Yes there is:
try this:

_root.soundsgood.play();

[podenphant]

Hi selcuk,

Thanks for your reply, however the sound is still only played 3 times.

if (_root.flip1._currentframe == 2 && this._y>330 && this._y<415) {
_root.score = Number(_root.score+1);
_root.soundsgood.play();
this.removeMovieClip();
}

Do you see any problems with the code above?
It would be unbarable if the problem cannot be solved
Any ideas?
-K

[josh by gosh]

I'm no code master, but do you have some code in soundsgood that tells it to go back to frame 1 ?

Maybe that's your prob...

Josh

[geiver]

go to and stop or go to and play (1)

[podenphant]

Hi guys,

yup, I already have the code that tells soundsgood to go back to frame 1.
That's not it

Keep those ideas coming. I'm blowing steam out of my head!
-K

[selcuk]

I dont see any problem in your code but what I meant was embedding sounds to three different movies:

say sound1.wav to soundsgood1
sound2.wav to soundsgood2 and
sound3.wav to soundsgood3

stop(); 'to the first frame of the each MC
start sounds from the second frame

I think you are using such an 'if' control:

if (some event) {

...
_root.soundsgood1.play();
}

to last frames of soundsgood1 and soundsgood2

_root.soundsgood2.play(); 'first MC's last frame
_root.soundsgood3.play(); 'second MC's last frame

I know it's not time-saving, however it worked in my case...