First let me prefice my questions with; I was asked by a friend to help (for free) create a music player for his sister's website and I agreed to help not having a clue what I was getting myself into. I have played with Flash one other time in my life and have no other training...what was I thinking! 15 hours into this and I am thinking I was off my rocker. My wife did all of the graphic work, but charged them. I wish I was as smart as her.
We have 10 songs that we want to play. So, I created 10 scenes and used the following code in each, changing the sound to the appropriate song:
In the first scene I also added:
Everything is working, albiet I am sure it's the most inneficient way to so this as the swf is 9 megs and take 60 seconds to load via my cable connection. Dial up I am sure would never work.
Here are my questions in order of the level of frustration they are causing me:
1. I want to add mySound.start(0,1); to each scene so the song starts to play when the visitor goes to this scene. I tried putting it in every scene, but every song started to play when the movie loaded...that sounded bad ;-) How can I play the song only when the scene plays?
2. I have tried 15 diferent preload screens and can't get them to work. Basically I created a new screne and placed it at the top of the scene list. What happens is I get a blank sceen for a long time, then a flash of the preload screen and then the first music scene loads. One note, each scene only has one frame. Suggestions?
Here's the last preload script I used:
3. I am sure there's a better way to do this. I tried loading the mp3 files dynamically by using the leadsound method, but could not get the songs to play. Should I be trying to get this method to work so that I don't have the mp3 files in the library and thus reducing file size?
I was using the following code for my attempt at dynamic loading:
The url where the app is currently running is and the music player will load in the bottom right corner.
I know that's a lot to ask you folks to address and will appreciate any help you can provide.
We have 10 songs that we want to play. So, I created 10 scenes and used the following code in each, changing the sound to the appropriate song:
Code:
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.attachSound("Loves_Philosophy");In the first scene I also added:
Code:
mySound.start(0,1);Everything is working, albiet I am sure it's the most inneficient way to so this as the swf is 9 megs and take 60 seconds to load via my cable connection. Dial up I am sure would never work.
Here are my questions in order of the level of frustration they are causing me:
1. I want to add mySound.start(0,1); to each scene so the song starts to play when the visitor goes to this scene. I tried putting it in every scene, but every song started to play when the movie loaded...that sounded bad ;-) How can I play the song only when the scene plays?
2. I have tried 15 diferent preload screens and can't get them to work. Basically I created a new screne and placed it at the top of the scene list. What happens is I get a blank sceen for a long time, then a flash of the preload screen and then the first music scene loads. One note, each scene only has one frame. Suggestions?
Here's the last preload script I used:
Code:
totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes / totalBytes) * 100);
if (_root._framesloaded >= _root._totalframes)
{
gotoAndPlay("song1", "start");
}I was using the following code for my attempt at dynamic loading:
Code:
myMusic = new Sound(lovesphilo);
myMusic.loadSound("loves_philosophy.mp3");
myMusic.start(0,1);The url where the app is currently running is and the music player will load in the bottom right corner.
I know that's a lot to ask you folks to address and will appreciate any help you can provide.