Variable cpCmndMute doesn´t affect certain audios

[Daniel Albarran SA&A]

Hi everyone. I suspect that the variable cpComndMute, (triggered by a button, for example) doesn´t have any effect on audios that have been activated by buttons or advanced actions; the cpCmndMute seems to function only for audios placed in the timeline. Is that the case?

[RodWard · Accepted solution]

Yes that is correct.

If you want to stop an audio that was triggered by the Play Audio action, you need to use the Stop Triggered Audio action.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

I am afraid that is not as easy to answer this question.

cpCmndMute = 1 will mute background audio and slide audio in any situation.

Object audio is more tricky: if the object appears and audio is muted, audio will not play. But if you unmute, it will play if the object has appeared.

About Play Audio: it depends which event is used to start the audio clip. If that is the On Enter slide event, the audio will be muted by cpCmndMute = 1, if it is started by a button event it cannot be stopped by any workflow except by:

• command Stop Triggered Audio
• starting another audio clip with Play Audio