Comments on: Flash CS3 Tutorial – Volume Slider

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:27:10 +0000

nice tutorial!!! thanks a lot…

By: Will

Will — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:58:43 +0000

To all those who want the music to autoplay at the start – what i did was move the variables to an earlier keyframe (ie. not the keyframe where the play/stop button controls are) and then i added a new function. here’s the AS in frame 5:

var music:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest(“media/beautiful_world.mp3″));
var sc:SoundChannel;
var isPlaying:Boolean = false;

function startMusic(e:Event):void
{
if (!isPlaying)
{
sc = music.play();
isPlaying = true;
}
}

startMusic(null);

and then in frame 10, which is the home frame whenever a user clicks “Back” has this code (and more, if you want a slider, mute control, etc):

stop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopMusic);

function stopMusic(e:Event):void
{
sc.stop();
isPlaying = false;
}

play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMusic);

function playMusic(e:Event):void
{
if (!isPlaying)
{
sc = music.play();
isPlaying = true;
}
}

hopefully this works for you too!

By: Truly of the Yard

Truly of the Yard — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:53:16 +0000

Almost 2 years old, and still an excellent tutorial, thank you. I just want to add (if it isn’t obvious) that the control knob has to be centered on its registration point, or else it will flop around when first selecting it.

By: Shockostar

Shockostar — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:27:42 +0000

God bless you man!
Your tutorial really really enlightened me =D
Very well explained, easy to understand.
You’re going straight to heaven! hahaha…
S.S.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:14:03 +0000

Solved!.

I’ve added

sc = music.play();

at end of code…this is playing as soon as i run swf or html.

Thanks again!.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:24:24 +0000

Great!.

I’ve tested by using a shoutcast adress instead the walk.mp3 sound…It functions OK, now…

¿How can i do to the sound plays without click Play button?…That’s: The sound plays when i open my web or when i open the swf file…

Thanks so much!.

By: ralphonz

ralphonz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:32:02 +0000

Hi,

thanks so much for the tutorial! i looked at so many others first which made no sense or didn’t work! Got this one working with some slightly different code for play and stop, added a pause function, up/down buttons for moving the slider and a little beep when a button is hit!

However, i’m having problems actually playing the track on my local site.
I’ve successfully embedded the player in the HTML file. It will play a medium sized mp3 file fine but not a larger one.
However the .swf on its own, or through the flash-generated html, will play any mp3 file fine, just not when its embedded on my page?

If anyone can help i would really appreciate it!

By: AlPual

AlPual — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:51:17 +0000

Hi, thanks for posting this. It’s a great tutorial. I am a bit confused though, not being familiar with Actionscript (I am used to Java). It looks to me like the ENTER_FRAME event will be called from now until eternity, since the listener is never removed. Also, it seems to me that a user who drops the volume level down before they press play would be greeted with the default (max) volume. As mentioned, I don’t know Actionscript, but it seems that, if there is a reason these problems wont occur, then that should be mentioned, since it’s not very intuitive.

By: Tinku TR

Tinku TR — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:34:04 +0000

Thanks . nice and usable code

By: NickSF

NickSF — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:51:08 +0000

Hey, the face made by the layout looks kinda sad… like maybe he’s sick and has a thermometer in his mouth.

I hope he feels better soon!