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jack021multimedia
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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
kglad
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.

J
jack021multimediaAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 13, 2012

what are the file names of your mp3's?


1, 2, 3, 4 and so on until 72. i know i should probably rename the 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 files so the code runs for all the sounds in my project but i just wanted to test the code at least for sounds 1-12 which are all the sounds for the top string of my guitar except 1, which is 01.mp3 which is just the open note. here is an image of my sounds folder anyway.

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