Re: [Swftools-common] sound in sprites

[Chris Pugh]

2009/2/25 Pablo Rodríguez <address@hidden>:
> 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.

Are you sure you are not gettng confused between streaming and embedding?
Flash will only stream certin types of audio file.

Regards,


Chris.