horizontal volume slider issues

[tallgiant]

I have tried several variations and nothing is working right. Here is what I have right now.

The actual slider is in a movie clip called slidebarMC with an instance name of slideBar. I added the code:
on (press) {
startDrag("", false, left, top, right, bottom);
dragging = true;
}

on (release, releaseOutside) {
stopDrag();
dragging = true;
}

I then created a new movie clip called sliderMC with no instance name, and placed a 100 pixel wide volume bar graphic and placed the slidebarMC movie clip in the middle of that.

I then placed that in my scene/movie clips and added the code to the sliderMC clip:
onClipEvent (load) {
top = _x;
bottom = top+100;
left = _x;
right = _x;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (dragging == true) {
_root.soundObject.setVolume(100-(_x-top));
}
}

I added a frame above it in the timeline and placed the action:
myMusic = new Sound();
_root.soundObject.attachSound("musicnote_01");
myMusic.start(0, 1);
myMusicVolume = 100;
myMusic.setVolume(myMusicVolume);

I have obviously screwed it up. What do I need to change to make it work in a movie clip and a scene? Thanks in advance!

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/volume_slider.htm

 

[tallgiant]

I tried that but it did not work! It seemed like it is designer for a web page. The code downloaded = mySound.getBytesLoaded();
total = mySound.getBytesTotal();
if (downloaded != total) {
_root.dl = "downloading song...";
} else {
complete = 1;
_root.dl = "";
is confusing the hell out of me. I have the mp3 files within the .fla file itself. How can I do it without have the download line? I don't understand the "downloading song" line. Does not seem relative to what I am doing. This is driving me insane!

 

[oldnewbie]

Can you post a link to your .fla, zipped up and in a MX only format, not MX2004.

You would have to save a copy of your MX2004 .fla, (using Save as...) and changing the Document type to MX only in the Save as... window.

 

[tallgiant]

Thanks Oldnewbie

The .fla is at

http://www.geocities.com/jdfar/volume_slider11.fla.

The two things that aren't working with it are:
1) It drags whenever the user places the cursor anywhere, not just the volume slider.
2) It does not function in an embeded movie clip (i.e. if I made this into a movie clip and then placed it in a scene, the slider does not work properly).