Re: [Swftools-common] sound in sprites

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Thanks, Matthias, for your reply and your excellent work.

Matthias Kramm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:26:38PM +0100, Pablo Rodríguez <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > ?The main timeline of a SWF file can only have a single streaming sound 
> > playing at a time, but each sprite can have its own streaming sound (see 
> > Sprites and Movie Clips).?
> >
> > Does that it mean that sprites or movieclips cannot contain event sounds?
>
> Not sure what you mean with "event sound", but if you mean sound effects
> which are triggered e.g. by a user action, then sprites can definitely
> contain those. Only thing is (as with all Define* tags) that the sound
> is only *started* in the sprite but not *defined*, in order to be compliant with
> the spec.
> (That said, the Flash Player actually doesn't care about whether tags
>  are inside a sprite or not. But it's still good practice to define characters
>  and sounds on the main level, not inside the sprite)

You're the Flash expert, but event sounds seem to be the ones that 
aren't streamed.

I thought it was impossible to add them.

Thanks again,


Pablo