Play Pause sound in flash 8

that's not very impressive coding. the pause method is totally superfluous and adds nothing to the already existant stop() method.

the resume prototype adds a little functionality to the start() method, but not much.

in any case, there are no errors in that coding and your sound should stop/pause and resume as long as those prototype methods are defined before they are used.

so, what's calling the pauseSound() function and failing to pause your sound?

You should be able to adapt the code you've got. Search the ActionScript2
book in the help files for "Loading an MP3 file."

Yes there was some code that I somehow overlooked.
I added it in and now it works perfectly.

Sound.prototype.pause = function ( ) {
// Get the current position and then stop the sound.
this.pauseTime = this.position;
this.stop( );
};

Sound.prototype.resume = function ( ) {
// Start the sound at the point at which it was previously stopped.
this.start(this.pauseTime/1000);
};


Thank you so much for the prompt reply.

I see I have a second challege and that is I need to keep the base file small and rather call the sound externally. They are mp3's.

Is it possible to use the code form O'Reilly or do I need a different approach?

you're missing some code. there must be something that extends the sound class' methods to include a pause() and resume() method. do you have that code from o'reilly's?