best way of fading in/out music

[iostream71]

i'm using a sound object to control music in the background. i have a button to turn it on and off, but i want the music to fade in/out. can i just use a for loop and the setVolume function to do that or is it bad design?

fade in like this:

for(i = 0; i<= 100; i++)
soundObject.setVolume(i);

 

[oldnewbie]

If it works... Why should it be bad design?
The question should be... Doest it work?

Regards,

 

[iostream71]

weeeell, there's good ways to do things and bad ways. just wanted to know if that's a common way to do it

 

[oldnewbie]

If it doesn't work, then I guess it's a bad way!
If it does... Well, might be better ways, but that way is working, ain't it?
Once again does it work?

BTW, if you're streaming this sound, Macromedia is presently working on a big bug with the Flash player 6. Streaming of a file, once started, can't be stopped, even if you move on to another site, thus a major problem for slow connected users.
They've put out a new player on Thursday or so, but have since pulled it off again... Other side effects!

Regards,

 

[iostream71]

nah, doesn't work. not sure why. even if i manually set volume in increments of 5.

onClipEvent(load){
sLoop = new Sound(this);
sLoop.attachSound(&quot;loop1&quot;
sLoop.setVolume(0);
sLoop.start(0,100);
sLoop.setVolume(5);
sLoop.setVolume(10);
etc..
}

 

[oldnewbie]

Why don't you check these then?

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Audio/Sound_Vo-Sanjeevi-469/index.shtml

http://flashkit.com/tutorials/Audio/Volume_-Joe_Jabo-721/index.shtml

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/sound/sound_player/

They use buttons... But you can try to adapt their scripting!

Good luck!

Regards,