Stopping sounds playing on top of each other

[schmichael]

Hey there, cheers for reading my post. I have written a simple function that should check if a bunch of other sound objects are playing and then play the sound object it is targeted at when the other sounds have finished by triggering the function again. I am storing whether the other sounds are playing in boolean variables. For some reason my code isn't working and I can't for the life of me figure out why. If someone would have a look that woulde be excellent. Thanks!

function PlayNumber(no) {
    trace("Play Number Called");
    if (soundOn) {
        if (welcomePlaying) {
            trace("welcomePlaying");
            Welcome.onSoundComplete = function() {
                welcomePlaying = false;
                trace("welcome finished")
                PlayNumber(no);
            };
        } else if (fHPlaying) {
            trace("FHPlaying");
            FHStart.onSoundComplete = function() {
                fHPlaying = false;
                PlayNumber(no);
            };
        } else if (linePlaying) {
            trace("line PLaying");
            LineStart.onSoundComplete = function() {
                PlayNumber(no);
            };
        } else if (numberPlaying) {
            trace("number Playing");
            numbers[lastNumber].onSoundComplete = function() {
                PlayNumber(no);
            };
        } else {
            trace("nothing playing");
            numbers[no].start();
            numberPlaying = true;
            numbers[no].onSoundComplete = function() {
                numberPlaying = false;
            };
        }
    }
}

function playWelcome(){
    welcome.start()
    welcomePaying = true;
    welcome.onSoundFinished = function(){
        welcomePLaying = false;

    }
}

[hothousegraphix]

Hey...Just set up one variable to test for activity and then pass it from function to function; i.e.

// create test variable
x=0;

song1btn.onRelease = function(){
    if (x==0){ //look at test variable, if equal to 0 exicute function
         NowPlaying=title1;//dynamic display of song title
         mp3Player.loadSound("yourTitleHere.mp3",true);
         x=1//prevent all other playbtn's from exicuting//  
    }
}

Then you'll need to reset that variable back to 0 once the sound has completed, either on it's own with the onSoundComplete action, and/or with the stop action...

//sound allowed to complete on its own
mp3Player.onSoundComplete = function () {
    x=0;// reset test variable to allow all other sounds to play
    NowPlaying = "Complete";// Display message
}
//sound stopped by user
stopbtn.onRelease = function() {
    if (x==1){
        mp3Player.stop();// stop sound
        x=0;// reset test variable to allow all other sounds to play
        NowPlaying="STOPPED";// Display message
    }
}

Hope this helps.

[schmichael]

Hi Hothouse, thanks for your reply, it would solve my problem but the thing is that I need to play the sound files in a certain order if more than one is triggerd while another is playing. The priority in which they should be played is the order in which they are listed from the top of the function going down. The thing is I need this function to be dynamic so it can adapt whatever sounds are triggered but always play the sounds in order of their priority.
Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks again

[hothousegraphix]

Sorry for not getting back sooner.

I guess I'm not understanding your entire situation. What is your goal? What triggers your sounds? Is your sequesnce of sounds supposed to exicute simelteaeously or one after the other?

What parts of your code are functioning?

There seems to be a contradiction between your script and what you are stating you want.

Your script asks to check a number of conditions and if true you script actions to be performed (if this conditions is met, do this; but if not check another condition, and so on); but, in your statement you say you want to have a sound play if condition1 and condition 2 and contionn 3 are all met at the same time.

Could you clarify?

[schmichael]

Hi there, thanks for getting back to me again Hothouse Sorry if I didnt explain myself properly.

The sounds are triggered by XML messages from a socket connection. That part of things works fine. I need to make the flash file work so that if another message is received that triggers another sound while one is playing already, the next triggered sound will play after the current one has finished, that bit seems OK; the problem is that if say, 3 sounds are triggered to play I need them to play in a certain order e.g. if the LineStart sound, the welcome sound and a number are all triggered, I need them to play in the order Welcome, LineStart then number. My code is
written in the order that the files should play so it checks if the welcome sound is playing, if it is it waits until the sound has finished and then triggers the function again, this time the welcome sound has finished so the second condition is checked and the cycle goes on.

I hope this makes sense, thanks for your help again!

[hothousegraphix]

OK, a few things I see, in the script you posted, your "if" statments don't actually state conditions. You want to test for the presence of something.
For instance, when you exicute your welcomePlaying track, you established a variable you can test for: i.e.

welcomePlaying = true

but your not actually testing for it:

//your code
function PlayNumber(no) {
    trace("Play Number Called");
    if (soundOn) {
 //       if (welcomePlaying) { - this line sould look like below
          if (welcomePlaying == true) { // <-- New line
            trace("welcomePlaying");
            Welcome.onSoundComplete = function() {
                welcomePlaying = false;
                trace("welcome finished")
                PlayNumber(no);
            };
// and so on
// you also need to watch your script as AS 2 is case sensetive 

Also need to look at "playWelcome" function. I could be wrong but I don't believe onSoundFinished is a method you can exicute, sould be onSoundComplete.

Also to test for a state with multipal conditions your "if" statement should look something like this:

if(audioClip1==true && audioClip2==true && audioClip3==true){ // will only exicute if all 3 conditions are met at the same time
    do something here
}

I hope this helps.

[schmichael]

Thanks for your continued help HotHouse. As far as I know you can test to see if a boolean variable is true in that way, if you run this code:

var myBoo:Boolean = true;
if (myBoo) {
	trace("it's true");
}

It will trace if myBoo is true and won't if it isn't.

I'm not quite sure where I got the onSoundFinished property from I think I must have made it up, so I'lll change that back to onSoundComplete.

As far as I am aware, if you test a bunch of conditions using if/else statements the first one that is met will execute, for example, if you run the code below:

function testNum(number:Number) {
	if (number>6) {
		trace("more than 6");
	} else if (number<10) {
		trace("less than 10");
	} else {
		trace("met no conditions");
	}
}

If the number is 5 the 2nd condition will be met, but if the number is 7 (which meets the 1st and 2nd conditions) the first condition will execute.

I hope this helps explain the code more clearly.
Cheers
Schm

[IncomingVirus]

Hi, I am new to this forum. I am busy building a flash site for a band but I am very new to sound in flash. I am using actionscript 2.

What I want to do with their songs is when you click on the button the song starts playing (That part I can do), what I am having trouble with is if you click the button to play "song 1" (it starts playing) and then click the button to play "song 2", I want "song 1" to stop automatically. I don't want the user to have to click a stop button.

I put the song into the song button's timeline as I am not very good with the coding in flash.

Any help will be much appreciated.

[Prid]

Please don't double-post