I've been working on a button audio toggle that I finally have working okay.
One problem I'm still trying to solve is disabling the hit state for each
button when it is visible. Also, the movie load time takes too long, which
I assume is due to the sound clip being embedded in the movie. Is there a
way to stream the sound so the audio begins immediately? See the referring
URL:

http://www.dwayneepps.com/MHM/index.htm

The button hit state is active for both on and off. I want to disable the
appropriate hit state according to which button is visible. So, if the
playB (audio playing) button is visible then I don't want the button to be
active over the "On" area but only on the "Off". Each button hit state is
set that way, but both are active when the movie plays. I have tried
disabling the hit states with the following code but it hasn't worked.
stopB.enabled=false

Here is the code that I'm using to play the audio and display the buttons:
bgSound = new Sound(this);
bgSound.attachSound("sound1");
bgSound.start(0, 99);
stopB._visible=false;
stopB.onRelease = function() {
bgSound.start(0, 99);
playB._visible=true;
stopB._visible=false;
};
playB.onRelease = function() {
bgSound.stop();
playB._visible=false;
stopB._visible=true;
};
stop();

Thanks in advance for any help.
-D-

hey News-

first i'm thinking:



instead of making a function for each button, make a more anonymous function that tells ANY button to become invisible when it's pressed.

example (in it's simplest form):

hideMe = function() {
this.onRelease = function(){
this._visible = false;
}
}
//
//
playB.onRelease = hideMe;
playA.onRelease=hideMe;








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if it weren't for my horse i never would've gotten into college

in flash MX you can give button instance name
and use
myButton.enabled=0; to deactivate it and enabeld=1 to set it back ON




Regards

urami_*



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Hi Urami,
Thanks for the help. I was trying that earlier and couldn't get it to
work, but I figured out the problem was how I had the hit state set for the
buttons. I finally have the button working the way that I want. If I can
ask one more question, the load time for the sound takes too long. Is there
a way I can get the audio to load quickly...streaming? I figured the load
time is taking longer because the MP3 clip is embedded. Is there some way
to fix this? For example, I have created a page where a user can listen to
audio clips and I used M3U files, which downloads immediately and starts
playing the actual MP3 file, but that is with HTML and not Flash. Is there
something similar I can do within Flash?

Here is the code for the button toggle to play the audio clip in Flash:
bgSound = new Sound(this);
bgSound.attachSound("sound1");
bgSound.start(0, 99);
stopB._visible=false;
stopB.onRelease = function() {
bgSound.start(0, 99);
playB._visible=true;
stopB._visible=false;
};
playB.onRelease = function() {
bgSound.stop();
playB._visible=false;
stopB._visible=true;
};
stop();

Referring URL:
http://www.dwayneepps.com/MHM/index.htm

I appreciate your help! Thanks again.
-D-


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