Please - need help using multiple sound channels

[eyesore webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hello Users.
I am a complete newbie when it comes to Director. I want to create a simple project with sound.
I have 3 small sound clips: tecno.wav, latin.wav and rock.wav.
I want to have 3 buttons that say TECNO, LATIN and ROCK. When the user clicks on each button, it plays the sound clip. I want the user to have the option of changing music while he is looking at the presentation. Kind of like a Sound Menu for the user. The user chooses what kind of music he/she wants, then there could also be a stop sound and resume sound button.

How can I do this? I know there are 8 sound channels. Can I assign each sound clip to it's own channel. I can't have 3 sound files in the score, they have to be internal sound.

Please help me with this...anyone.

[Rob Dillon]

Since you will only be playing one sound at a time, you can use just
one sound channel. You could control everything pretty simply.
Something like this attached to each button.

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global currentSound

property thisSprite
property thisSound

on getPropertyDescriptionList
myPropList = [#thisSound:[#comment:"pick the sound file for this
button:",#format:#sound,#default:"" ] ]
return myPropList
end

on beginSprite me
thisSprite = me.spriteNum
end

on mouseUp me
-- we'll use sound channel 2 for this example...
puppetSound 2, 0
global currentSound = thisSound
puppetSound 2, thisSound
end
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the sound stop button:

---------
on mouseUp me
puppetSound 2,0
end
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the play button:

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global currentSound

on mouseUp me
if currentSound <> VOID then
puppetSound 2, currentSound
end if
end
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This can be much more elaborate of course, you can add sound fading and
mixing to get a smoother transition from one sound to the other, but
that's a whole different exercise.

--
Rob
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