Help with Director

[JFresh webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

I was wondering if I can get some help with this.

I have an mp3 file playing during the director movie.
There are 3 buttons which are used to pan the song left, center, and right respetively.

ex code: (for right pan button)

on mouseup me
sound(1).pan = 100
end


From here, I created three sprites via the filled rectangle option in the toolbox, filled with a green color

The stage would look something like this:

Centerchannel button
LCh sprite1 spr2 spr3 RCh

The sprites are to represent which channel is on. For ex: when only the right channel is playing, the 3rd sprite will remain green while the others turn to red.

I tried accomplishing this by adding a bit more code to each of the buttons so it looked something like this:

(for right pan button)

on mouseup me
sound(1).pan = 100
sprite(spr3).color = rgb(0, 255, 0)
sprite(spr2).color = rgb(255, 0, 0)
sprite(spr1).color=rgb(255, 0, 0)
end

The code compiles fine, however, when I run this, the three sprites start to flash and none of the code for the color changes seem to work at all.

Thus, my questions are: why? and how do I fix this?

Thank you all for you time!
JFresh =)

[JB]

your malfunctioning buttons are not 'flashing' the color change?

the code looks OK, I can only think that perhaps the score playback head
is moving beyond the sprite scan ( for example if your sprites end at
frame 10 and the playback head gets to frame 11 the buttons would blink
off and when the playback head came back to the buttons the lingk color
changes would be forgotton)