I’m creating a multilingual flash game with multilingual narrations. Till now i’ve got one language with an audio stream and lyric to accompany it in it’s own timeline controlled by a button on the main timeline to pause and play. I would like to add 2 more languages with audio and own lyric(karaoke style) for each language in this scene. And eventually have buttons on the main timeline that would switch the language(audio and lyric) and seamlessly continue from where the last language left off. Till now I have this action from the main timeline controlling the audio and lyric. englyr being the movie clip, with audio and lyric in it.
toggleButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, toggleClick3);
toggleButton.buttonState = "off";
function toggleClick3(event:MouseEvent) {
if (toggleButton.buttonState == "on") {
englyr.play();
toggleButton.buttonState = "off";
} else {
toggleButton.buttonState = "on";
englyr.stop();
}
}
I’m assuming I should put the other 2 languages as well as their lyric in englyr so that I can disable/mute languages that are not needed to be heard or seen. One problem is I can’t group the lyric and the narration(2 layers) together as a movie clip in that timeline. Therefore cannot disable the 2 other languages that shouldn’t be heard or seen. Any solutions?
It's probably easier to let them both play from code instead of via the timeline.
The first thing to do is to go to the settings of your audioclips in the library, enable "Export for Actionscript" and set a different class name for both your clips. I have named mine "english" and "french".
The following code manages two sounds and changes the language when you press the button of a language that is currently not playing.
var englishClip:Sound = new english(); //load both sounds.
var frenchClip:Sound = new french();
//create the sound and the sound channel.
var myChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var mySound:Sound = englishClip;
//if you want to have lots of different languages it might be easier to just have different buttons instead of one with a state.
englishButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, SpeakEnglish);
frenchButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, SpeakFrench);
//we'll start with having just the english sound playing.
myChannel = mySound.play();
function SpeakEnglish(event:MouseEvent) {
if (mySound != englishClip) { //if the english sound is already playing, do nothing.
var currentPlayPosition:Number = myChannel.position; //save playback position.
myChannel.stop(); //stop playing
mySound = englishClip.play(currentPlayPosition); //resume playing from saved position.
}
function SpeakFrench(event:MouseEvent) {
if (mySound != frenchClip) { //if the French sound is already playing, do nothing.
var currentPlayPosition:Number = myChannel.position; //save playback position.
myChannel.stop(); //stop playing
mySound = frenchClip.play(currentPlayPosition); //resume playing from saved position.
}
This could all be made more compact by having a single function that you pass the appropriate sound to. It would look something like this:
function SpeakEnglish(event:MouseEvent) {
ChangeSound(englishClip);
}
function SpeakFrench(event:MouseEvent) {
ChangeSound(frenchClip);
}
function ChangeSound(newSound:Sound){
if (mySound != newSound) { //if the sound is already playing, do nothing.
var currentPlayPosition:Number = myChannel.position; //save playback position.
myChannel.stop(); //stop playing
mySound = newSound.play(currentPlayPosition); //resume playing from saved
}
And that should solve the problem, i hope that helped :)
Resource: http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3sound/
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I have make a menu in Flash that can expand and there music setting inside.
The music plays when the application starts. To stop the music you must expand the menu and click the music icon.
It's working fine after I open the program and stop the music.
And it's working if I want to play again.
But there's problems after that:
I can't stop the music again and the music playing double in background.
This is my FLA file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DpqdH64kDnI8xN6fBAt3pwi_bIRQ52mT/view?usp=drivesdk
Can anyone tell me the fault of my program? Thanks.
About "music playing double" does your (audio) playback function create a new anything? (eg: = new Sound or = new SoundChannel)? If yes...
Create your audio variables once outside of functions, then use your functions only to stop/start audio playback.
Use new Sound only when loading a new track, once loaded then use one SoundChannel to play/stop that Sound object.
You need a Boolean to keep track of whether a Sound is already playing or not. If true then don't send another .play() command (now gives two sounds to output/speakers).
See if the code logic below guides you toward a better setup:
//# declare variables globally (not trapped inside some function)
var snd_Obj :Sound;
var snd_Chann :SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var snd_isPlaying :Boolean = false;
//# main app code
loadTrack("someSong.mp3"); //run a function, using "filename" as input parameter
//# supporting functions
function loadTrack (input_filename :String) : void
{
snd_Obj = new Sound();
snd_Obj.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, finished_LoadTrack);
snd_Obj.load( input_filename ); //read from function's input parameter
}
function finished_LoadTrack (event:Event) : void
{
snd_Chann = snd_Obj.play(); //# Play returned Speech convert result
snd_Obj.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onSoundLoaded);
//# now make your Play and Stop buttons active
btn_play.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, play_Track);
btn_stop.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stop_Track);
}
function play_Track (event:Event) : void
{
//# responds to click of Play button
if(snd_isPlaying != true) //# check if NOT TRUE, only then start playback
{
snd_Chann = snd_Obj.play();
snd_isPlaying = true; //# now set TRUE to avoid multiple "Play" commands at once
}
}
function stop_Track (event:Event) : void
{
//# responds to click of Play button
snd_Chann.stop();
snd_isPlaying = false; //# now set FALSE to reset for next Play check
}
I am in desperate need of help! I have a mute toggle button that I made following a tutorial on youtube in Adobe Animate/Flash using action-script 3.0 and it mutes everything as it is supposed to. However, I now need it to only mute the background music as it is muting my videos as well! How can I alter the code to either make sure only the background sound is muted and not the video?
function setMute(vol)
{
var sTransform:SoundTransform = new SoundTransform(1,0);
sTransform.volume = vol;
SoundMixer.soundTransform = sTransform;
}
var Mute:Boolean = false;
mute_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,toggleMute_btn);
function toggleMute_btn(event:Event){ if(Mute)
{
Mute = false; setMute(1);
soundLines.gotoAndStop(1);
}
else
{ Mute = true; setMute(0);
soundLines.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}
In Adobe Animate (AS3), a developer can add audio in mainly two ways, timeline audio and external audio loaded by script. There can be even more methods of adding sound to a Flash movie.
In case of timeline audio, which are embedded and plays on movie progress, you may simply stop that movieclip containing that audio causing mute-like effect for that specific audio.
Example:
If your movieclip named BG contains your background music, you can write BG.stop(); for mute and BG.play(); for resuming the audio. This is the easiest method of all.
In case of streaming audio from external source using code,
var bg:Sound = new Sound();
var bgChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
bg.load(new URLRequest("test.mp3"));
bgChannel = bg.play();
function vol(v:uint){
var sT:SoundTransform = new SoundTransform();
sT.volume = v;
bgChannel.soundTransform=sT;
}
setTimeout(vol,1000,0);
Similarly, set vol to higher value for unmute.
I have a flash video that is short, has sound, and I've got Play Pause and Stop buttons.
Without sound, it works perfectly. It autoplays, you can hit pause and it pauses, and play resumes where it leaves off. Hitting stop goes to an empty frame if someone wants to turn it off.
I have audio inside my library, and would like connect the audio with the same elements. I've been researching for awhile now, and I've not come up with a solution yet, and having a hard time.
Here is my ActionScript code for my currently working buttons:
StopBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopplaying);
function stopplaying(Event:MouseEvent):void {
stop()
}
PlayBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startplaying);
function startplaying(Event:MouseEvent):void {
play()
}
CloseBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, close);
function close(Event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(240)
}
You should use Sound and SoundChannel to do this. And for pause you'll have to save the current play position so that you can continue from there:
var audio:Sound = new audioFromLibrary(); //linkage name
var soundChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var audioPosition:Number = 0;
//PLAY:
soundChannel = audio.play(audioPosition);
//PAUSE:
audioPosition = soundChannel.position;
soundChannel.stop();
//STOP:
soundChannel.stop();
I'm making a game with AS3. I would like to put a different music in each background.
So far, I've succeed to start the music when the player enters in a scene. But if he goes out, the music is still playing...(I want the music to stop when the players leave a scene).
I don't understand why the music is still playing.. Here's my code :
public function newBackground(thisBack:String):void{
var room = back.currentBack;
switch (thisBack){
case "maisonExt":
var mySound:Sound = new exterieur ();
mySound.play ();
My mp3 file is named "exterieur.mp3".
If you can think of anything it would be a great help.
Thanks !
You need to stop the music again. If you don't stop it, it will keep on playing :)
When you call .play it will return a SoundChannel which lets you control the playback -- changing position, stopping the playback, and accessing the SoundTransform which lets you control the volume. Here is some example code for you:
public var currentSoundChannel:SoundChannel;
public function newBackground(thisBack:String):void
{
var room = back.currentBack;
if (currentSoundChannel != null)
{
currentSoundChannel.stop()
}
var nextSong:Sound;
switch (thisBack){
case "maisonExt":
nextSong = new exterieur ();
break;
}
currentSoundChannel = nextSong.play();
}
If you want to learn more about sound, I would recommend this tutorial http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/2009/03/03/avoider-game-tutorial-9/. It's part of a larger tutorial which teaches you many aspects of game making, taking you from novice to capable of creating a game. You should really check that out.
I'm using greensock LoaderMax to load video files and sound files. I've copied as much code as is available to me. A video (s9) is playing and at a certain percentage through the video, I need to play another sound.
if(s9.playProgress > .1) // This is what I can't get to work
{
s12_sound.playSound(); //This sound won't play at .1 playProgress
}
s9.content.visible = true;
s9.playVideo();
stop();
s9.addEventListener(VideoLoader.VIDEO_COMPLETE, play_s9_loop); //This plays a video once s9 is done.
function play_s9_loop(event:Event):void
{
s9.content.visible = false;
s9_loop.content.visible = true;
s9_loop.playVideo();
}
I'm guessing you just can't do an if() on playProgress? Furthermore, I suck at AS3.
You should be able to just listen for the INIT event on the video (which typically means it has loaded enough to determine the duration of the video) and then add an AS cue point.
//...after you create your VideoLoader...
myVideoLoader.addEventListener(LoaderEvent.INIT, initHandler);
myVideoLoader.load();
function initHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
myVideoLoader.addASCuePoint( myVideoLoader.duration * 0.1, "myLabel" );
myVideoLoader.addEventListener(VideoLoader.VIDEO_CUE_POINT, cuePointHandler);
}
function cuePointHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
trace("Hit the cue point " + event.data.name);
s12_sound.playSound();
}
Also make sure that you preload that s12_sound so that it's ready to play when you need it. Otherwise, you can call playSound() all you want and it ain't gonna happen :)
I haven't used this class before but after reading the docs it looks like you can do something like this:
http://www.greensock.com/as/docs/tween/com/greensock/loading/VideoLoader.html
var mid:Number = s9_loop.duration/2; //get the midpoint using the duration property
s9_loop.addASCuePoint(mid, "middle") //using addASCubePoint to add a cuepoint to the midpoint of the video
s9_loop.addEventListener(VideoLoader.VIDEO_CUE_POINT, handleMidpoint); //listen for the cuepoint
Inside the handler function
protected function handleMidpoint(e:Event):void{
//play your sound
}