Flash :: Audio Clip Loading On Buttons For No Good Reason? (bug?)

Give Me One Good Reason Why My Basic Code Cant Be Bothered To Work, Please.
Ok, so ive got this game im working on, but the idea is that u accerate into thae square and it goes to a frame which playes u doing the jump...
Funnily enough it dosent work, heres the fla file to download.

So in short my problem is my hitTest script isnt working, the red square out side the playarea shuold make it work but it dosent.

please help me thx very much, any help will be appricated. if u even view the thread plz post!

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I created an audio player. My intent is to load external audio dynamically, and the number of tracks it loads will eventually be controlled by loadVars variables. So I can label the songs in the folders sequentially such as song01.mp3, song02.mp3, etc... then in the text document i can change the variable for the amount of songs to load to tthe number of songs I have in that folder.
I have a regular set of controls to control the audio. Including 2 buttons to move and play the different songs loaded.
The problem is that it appears that I don't know how to attach a dynamically loaded sound to something other than a sound object. Then, if I load all the sounds at once when the audio controller starts, I have to create a different sound object for each loading sound to be put into.
I can handle that fine with the "for" statement.
But the issue is trying to simply control the different songs with the same set of buttons, or displaying the variables for that song withought writing a long script for each sound load object.
for example
I have an external mp3 loaded into seperate sound objects
so
sound object | Mp3 name
sound1 = sound01.mp3
sound2 = sound02.mp3
sound3 = sound03.mp3
sound4 = sound04.mp3

then i created a variable to mimic the sound object number that is targeted, which to start off is sound1.
trackNumber = 1;

So when I want to switch tracks, or stop a certain sound with the same button and not have to write on each button like
if (trackNumber == 1){
sound1.stop();
}
if (trackNumber == 2){
sound2.stop();
}
I want to be able to do something along the lins of
sound[trackNumber].stop();
or
["sound"+trackNumber].stop

so in all, is there a way that I can incorporate a variable into a targeted sound object for a called function on it.

Or is there a way I can load the external sounds, then when I switch track numbers do something like

sound.attachSound("sound01");
sound.play();

sound.attachSound("sound02");
sound.play();

I know the attachSound method only works for sounds that are in the main .swf folder to be loaded into a sound object, But I need someway of simplifying this without writing pages of code to do something that seems should have been incorporated to make the scripting more functional.

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hello,

im making my new web site and i got some code for some Mac style buttons which expand when the mouse is over them anyway these web site is laid out like this

scene 1 (with all the pages in the web site)
on each page their is a movie clip called Nav which is the navigation pannel in this movie clip are more movie clips each of which contain a button which expands

ive tried alsorts to make the buttons control the selection of pages i.e _root and this.parent.parent etc etc but nothing seems to work ive tried placing the script on the buttons themselves and also the movie clip which contains the buttons still to no success.

any ideas?

cheers
Matt

i would upload the file but it is about 20kb too big when zipped
p.s im using flash mx 2004

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I´ve heard that it could be related to a limitation of the HTTP protocol.

Here´s the url to the site: www.chapeco-online.com.br

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This is the structure of my site. I have a main flash that contains the navigation bar. When you click the Home, Bios, or Contacts page I load another movie clip using the following: _root.testMovie.loadMovie("bios.swf");

Inside the bios page I have thumbnail buttons of pictures. When you click on any of these thumbnails I load the bigger movie clip of the bigger picture like so:

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hello
this is probably very simple.
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http://www.zekestudios.com/flash/main.html
go to this page and go over the music button... that is close to what i am trying to do...

if u can help me do that then pls answer back,

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i've got it to work using _root.

But my problem is when i use it with buttons that are located within a movie clip (my animated menu is a movie clip) it doesnt want to work any more. I'm using Flash 6.

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To help you understand, I am attaching my FLA

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they sent us this email:

"I do not know who else this may be happening with, but when Marjorie Sanders (OC) opened to take the tour, it loaded the software (not sure why her machine didn't have it), and the video was the size of a postcard, Kathleen sounded like a little child (almost munchkin like) and was going 100 mph (so very, very fast - almost unintelligible). Can we experiment with it. Could it be because of the download - I would hope that people don't receive it that way or they will end up laughing at it (it is almost silly)."

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I will be more than happy to email the .fla, but cannot attach it here (a little too big) . And if your watchiing dru_6, don't laugh. Too loud .
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the site : http://www.texase-commerce.com

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Hi,

This is not going well...I have a movie with a container and a variable connected to a dinamic text box (_root.containerMC.daTextBox).

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Code:
on (press)
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/:textloaded="";
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btemp = Math.round(Math.random()*(1000000-1))+1;
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Code:
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if(ok){
_root.containerMC.daTextBox = this.content_new;
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Hi,

This is not going well...I have a movie with a container and a variable connected to a dinamic text box (_root.containerMC.daTextBox).

In each menu button, I have the code:

Code:

on (press)
{
System.useCodepage = true;
/:textloaded="";
_root.containerMC.daTextBox = "";
btemp = Math.round(Math.random()*(1000000-1))+1;
loadContent("text.txt?x="+btemp);
}

The function loadContent is:

Code:

function loadContent(url){
var lv=new LoadVars();
lv.onLoad=function(ok){
if(ok){
_root.containerMC.daTextBox = this.content_new;
}
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blank keyframe with a stop();
A label "enter" on frame 2 with the slide into screen part
A label "loop" on frame 8 that starts the mouth moving.
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The problem is the sounds are of various lengths and due to various loads on the player even the same sound will take a different number of frames to complete.

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Attach Code

feedbackClip = home.createEmptyMovieClip("feedbackClip", 107589);
function playFeedback(puppet:MovieClip, soundID:String):Number {
if (!isPlaying) {
trace(newline+"starting "+puppet+" on frame"+puppet._currentframe);
isPlaying = true;
curScene.onRollOver = empty;
curScene.useHandCursor = false;
var audio:Sound = new Sound(feedbackClip);
audio.attachSound(soundID);
puppet.gotoAndPlay("enter");
setTimeout(playAudio,200);
}
function playAudio() {
audio.start();
}
audio.onSoundComplete = function() {
trace("Ending "+puppet+" on frame "+puppet._currentframe);
delete curScene.onRollOver;
curScene.useHandCursor = true;
isPlaying = false;
puppet.gotoAndPlay("exit");
};
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