Two Questions Regarding Soundboards

[MonkeyBeard]

I'm relatively new to Flash and I'm putting together a soundboard. I have two questions:

1) When a sound is playing, if I press the button again, the sounds will overlap (the first sound is still playing as the second sound begins playing). How can I get it so that pressing the button starts the sound from the beginning again, without continuing to play through the first?

2) How can I assign keys to play sounds? For example, instead of having to drag the cursor over a button a click it, I just hit "2" on the keyboard and it plays.

Thanks very much ahead of time for your help.

 

[TheConeHead]

1) do:
soundName.stop()

then:

soundName.start();

2) on(keyPress "2") {

 

[MonkeyBeard]

Where do actions get pasted?

 

[MonkeyBeard]

I selected the keyframe and pasted those into the Actions panel and neither seem to work. I'm getting an output error message.

 

[MonkeyBeard]

Anyone? ...Bueller? ...Bueller?

 

[dmears1]

Try placing ConeHead's suggestion on the button itself.
Select the button and then in the ActionScript panel insert the code.

http://www.Morter.com

 

[TheConeHead]

put #1 the same place you are playing the sound, just stop it before you play it... #2 should go on the button but could be done on the root as well you would just need to place it within a function()

 

[MonkeyBeard]

When I try to put actions on the button is tells me "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it.

 

[TheConeHead]

are you certain you have a button selected?

 

[MonkeyBeard]

Okay, to make things easier, I've posted the flash document on my iDisk. Obviously the sound will not work because it's just the flash document. but if someone could take a look at it and tell me what the problem is that would be amazing. The current file has NO actionscripts anywhere. It's simply the button. Thanks.

 

[MonkeyBeard]

http://homepage.mac.com/hawkdaddy/.Public/soundboardtest.fla

 

[TheConeHead]

looking...

 

[TheConeHead]

oops... I am guessing this is mx 2004? I only have mx... sorry...

 

[MonkeyBeard]

Oh, i can save it to that format for you...

here:

http://homepage.mac.com/hawkdaddy/.Public/soundboardtest1.fla

 

[TheConeHead]

looking...

 

[TheConeHead]

So you are wanting to click the button and have a sound played? correct?

 

[MonkeyBeard]

No, that already works. But say I click the button twice, it plays the sound twice, overlapping. It will continue playing it the first time, while playing the second time. I want it so that the second click stops the first play and plays the sound again from the begining.

 

[TheConeHead]

ok here you go:

1. take the sound off from within your button
2. right click the sound in your library and select Linkage
3. Select "Export for ActionScript"
4. Give the sound a name at the top of this window and close it
5. Go back to the main screen and create a new layer called actions. Click on frame 1 and open your actions screen and type:

crash = new Sound();
crash.attachSound("Whatever You named the file inLinkage");

6. Go back to the main stage and click on the button
7. Open your actions screen and put:

on (release) {
    crash.stop();
    crash.play();
}

 

[MonkeyBeard]

Still getting an output error and the sound doesn't play at all.

 

[TheConeHead]

can you give me a link to the new file in mx form - works fine for me...