Re: [Swftools-common] sound in sprites

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Chris Pugh wrote:
> 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.

I hope I'm not ;-). I think that the Flash specification is clear in 
that point (since I think this was the only point I understood when I 
read it first).

My question on whether sprites can contain event sounds was grounded on 
my lack of knowledge on how ActionScript can load this sounds (because 
of that I wondered whether this was impossible).

But thanks to your script for preloading images 
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/2009-02/msg00086.html), 
I discovered a new way to load sound embedded in external files and in 
sprites.

Thanks for all,


Pablo