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February 12, 2012
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How to control mouse events with other mouse events Actionscript 3, please help!

  • February 12, 2012
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Hello,

I'm working on a virtual guitar simulation project and to be honest my flash skills are very beginner.

Right now all the sounds (78 of them) on my guitar play using the roll_over event but that doesn't give the user much control over what sound is played.

The actionscript im using to play my sounds is this;

for(var i:uint = 0; i < buttonArray.length; i++){

buttonArray.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, buttonRolledOver);

}

//This function stops any sound clip that is playing and

//plays the sound file thats clicked.

function buttonRolledOver(e:MouseEvent):void{

// SoundMixer.stopAll(); -- stops sounds playing when next one is played

for(var i:uint = 0; i < buttonArray.length; i++){

if(e.target == buttonArray){

var s:Sound = new Sound();

s.load(new URLRequest(soundArray));

s.play();

}

}

}

What i want to do is only play a sound with the roll_over event when the left click is held down.

I'd very much appreciate some help with that. A friend of mine advised me to use an if statement but I'm not really sure how to implement that.

Thanks!

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2012

first, you should initialize your app by loading all your sounds and store the sound objects in soundArray.  otherwise, that's a major memory hog and sound-start latency will be an issue if that's deployed on the internet.

also, you should be using movieclip buttons or simple buttons with names that make it easy to extract i from buttonArray.  then you can use:

var sc:SoundChannel;

for(var i:uint = 0; i < buttonArray.length; i++){

buttonArray.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, startF);

buttonArray.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopF);

}

//This function stops any sound clip that is playing and

//plays the sound file thats clicked.

function startF(e:MouseEvent):void{

sc=soundArray[extractIndexF(e.currentTarget.name)].play();

}

function stopF(e:MouseEvent):void{

sc.stop();

}

function extractIndexF(nameS:String):int{

// return index of buttonArray item

}

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jack021multimediaAuthor
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February 12, 2012

Thanks for your reply. Yes i'm using a soundarray which stores all the sounds, here is a snippet of it. I hope this is what you mean.

var soundArray:Array = new Array();

soundArray[0] = 'sounds/01.mp3';

soundArray[1] = 'sounds/1.mp3';

soundArray[2] = 'sounds/2.mp3';

soundArray[3] = 'sounds/3.mp3';

soundArray[4] = 'sounds/4.mp3';

soundArray[5] = 'sounds/5.mp3';

soundArray[6] = 'sounds/6.mp3';

soundArray[7] = 'sounds/7.mp3';

soundArray[8] = 'sounds/8.mp3';

soundArray[9] = 'sounds/9.mp3';

soundArray[10] = 'sounds/10.mp3';

soundArray[11] = 'sounds/11.mp3';

soundArray[12] = 'sounds/12.mp3';

and a code snippet of the button array:

var buttonArray:Array = new Array();

buttonArray[0] = lowe_btn;

buttonArray[1] = lowe1_btn;

buttonArray[2] = lowe2_btn;

buttonArray[3] = lowe3_btn;

buttonArray[4] = lowe4_btn;

buttonArray[5] = lowe5_btn;

buttonArray[6] = lowe6_btn;

buttonArray[7] = lowe7_btn;

buttonArray[8] = lowe8_btn;

buttonArray[9] = lowe9_btn;

buttonArray[10] = lowe10_btn;

buttonArray[11] = lowe11_btn;

buttonArray[12] = lowe12_btn;

Anyway I put that code you posted into my program to replace the code I posted here initially but it comes up with an error referring to that last function which only has a comment on it.

kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2012

no, that's not an array of sounds.  your soundArray is an array of strings.

you should use something like:

var soundArray:Array = new Array();

var buttonArray:Array = new Array();

var index:int=0;

soundF();

function soundF():void{

var s:Sound=new Sound();

s.load(new URLRequest("sounds/"+index+".mp3"));  // i'm assuming 01.mp3 should be 0.mp3

s.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loadcompleteF);

soundArray.push(s);

buttonArray.push(this["lowe"+index+"_btn"]); // rename lowe_btn to lowe0_btn

}

function loadcompleteF(e:Event):void{

buttonArray[index].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, startF);

buttonArray[index].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopF);

buttonArray[index].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, stopF);

index++;
if(index<12){
soundF();
}
}


//This function stops any sound clip that is playing and

//plays the sound file thats clicked.

function startF(e:MouseEvent):void{

sc=soundArray[extractIndexF(e.currentTarget.name)].play();

}

function stopF(e:MouseEvent):void{

if(sc){

sc.stop();

}

}

function extractIndexF(nameS:String):int{

return int(nameS.split("lowe")[1].split("_")[0]);

}

 

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