this might not be the right place- flash website music problem

[PantherRun]

Hey again;
my webmaster has aked me to post this problem. He's making my site, which will have a theme soundtrack playing in the background (apparently popping up in a flash player). The problem he's having is the interaction between the soundtrack player and the flash movies.

His words...

"the player that plays the music actually would be a flash player. And the only way to do it would be a pop-up. So, ask them if there is any way to automatically stop and restart a pop-up flash music player in accordance with the flash movie."

Can you help here?

Also, I've always hated the idea of needing a pop up flash player to begin with. Is there a way to have the theme song play without any need for pop up players, and thus the user having to waste time dealing with the damn thing, and...

have the theme song shut up when the reader clicks on a flash movie, and then restart once that movie is done and they go back to the website?

This seems to be a one of the last major holdups to moving this site forward, so anything, any help, is really needed.
thanks
hoss

 

[theKeyper]

Hi hoss,
Is this a flash or html site? if html is there any SWFs embedded? You want the music to stop when the user clicks on a flash movie, is this an embedded SWF? and does it stay there the whole time? If so can you make this SWF play the music?
-Keyper

The Key is more powerful than the Sword.

 

[PantherRun]

Let me see if i can answer this...
The site is html, about 15 pages in all, and all nonflash. On the main page i designed it so that there are say 8 buttons that when you click them they trigger the flash movies i've made. Once the reader has finished with the movie they click back to the main page.
my webmaster is responsible for creating those clickable buttons that trigger the movies.

Are they embedded... i'll email him tonight and get back to you.

As to your last question, my ignornace wants me to say no because each triggered flash movie will have VO and soundtrack.

Not much help i know, maybe i can drag my webmaster onto this forum.

 

[oldnewbie]

A lot of confusion...

The site is html, about 15 pages in all, and all nonflash. On the main page i designed it so that there are say 8 buttons that when you click them they trigger the flash movies i've made.

Are those 8 html buttons?
When you say trigger, isn't it fact calling one of the 15 pages in which each movie would be embedded?
If not, would the link be directly to your .swfs, without them being embedded in the different pages' htmls?
Or even in popups?

Once the reader has finished with the movie they click back to the main page.
my webmaster is responsible for creating those clickable buttons that trigger the movies.

They click back to the main page through their browser's back button, or from buttons within your Flash movie?
Why is your webmaster responsible for the initial 8 buttons, when on the other hand, you're saying you designed them?

What you're wanting, either the player being embedded in the main page or in a popup, is most probably possible, but someone would need to see your actual setup, before making any valuable suggestion.
Think it would be easier if the player was embedded, rather than in a popup... Just one less window to deal with... And what if the user closed it, before hitting any one of your buttons?

 

[theKeyper]

Exactly what I was about to ask and I know I close all popups before they even load, they're a nuisance. And some people have pop-up blockers and such. Perhaps you could upload a zip file of your site somwhere and post a link to it?

 

[PantherRun]

You think you're confused, imagine how i feel? okay, i'm badgering my webmaster to get on this thread and respond since he can speak the lingo far better than i can even pretend.

I'll be back.

 

[PantherRun]

Ok,
You guys are making this far more complicated than it really is. Imagine a website which was created in photoshop. All the pages are now linked together by assigning links in the html to buttons (jpeg). Now, there are flash movies which are the core of the site. So, you are on a html page, click a jpeg button, and it goes to an html page on which a flash media object was placed. Now, after you are done watching the movie, there are links in the flash that return you to the main (html) pages. Now, here is the question, how can we make a song loop through the site (html part) and stop once the movie is clicked (the html page with flash movie). For example, if we went with a pop-up flash music player, it would play fine through the different pages of the regular html, but when a movie begins, the sound would overlap. Of course, it wouldn't overlap if the user closed the pop-up window, but then, when the movie is over, it would somehow have to re-load.

 

[PantherRun]

Thank you webmaster for coming on board the thread. Okay, he said it far better than i ever could. We'd like, if possible, to completely do away with any pop ups for all the obvious reasons, so if you could point us in the direction of solving the problem AND wiping out the need for a flash player pop up, life would be grand.
thanks out there,
Hoss

 

[PantherRun]

folks;
The silence is deafening; usually you're all pretty quick to offer good advice, so you've got me worried that maybe there is no solution to this. But if one of you out there knows how to solve this probelm, or at least an idea of a direction, any help would be great.
Thanks
hoss

 

[oldnewbie]

What I still don't get here, is that if you go to a new html within the same brouser window, the Flash player on the main page will not be heard any more?
Don't see how you'd get overlapping sounds if the links are not opened in new browser windows, and the main page window left opened?

 

[pixl8r]

So what you are saying is that you need to stop a sound in a different Flash movie in a different frame or window? That about it?

 

[oldnewbie]

So Hoss? Have you given up on this or have you found a way out?

 

[PantherRun]

not yet. I asked my webmaster to come back on this forum and answer your new questions, he hasn't yet, so i'm off to bother him again.

 

[theKeyper]

Try making a flash movie to place on the main (HTML) page. Maybe just 1 pixel x 1 pixel? this is just for the sound. It plays on your HTML page and then when you change to your flash page it stops? I'm sure that your problem must be more complicated than this but perhaps you could post a link so we could all get our heads around this problem? If your work is senstitive then just create a mockup. Sometimes doing this leads you to a solution yourself.
-Keyper.