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This property can be tested and set.
To see an example of
soundLevel used in a completed movie, see the Sound Control movie in the
Learning/Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application folder.
Examples
This statement sets the variable oldSound equal to the current sound level:
oldSound = the soundLevel
This statement sets the sound level to 5:
the soundLevel = 5
See also
soundEnabled, volume (sound channel)
the soundMixMedia
Syntax
the soundMixMedia
Description
This global property enables Flash cast members to mix their sound with sounds in the score
sound channels when it is set to
TRUE. When it is set to FALSE, these sounds will not be mixed and
must be played at separate times. This property defaults to TRUE for movies made with Director
7 and later and false for earlier ones.
This property is valid only on Windows. When
the soundMixMedia is TRUE, Director takes over the
mixing and playback of sounds from Flash cast members. It is possible that slight differences may
occur in the way Flash sounds play back. To hear the Flash sounds exactly they would be rendered
in Flash, set this property to
FALSE.
sound playFile
Syntax
sound playFile whichChannel, whichFile
Description
Command; plays the AIFF, SWA, AU, or WAV sound located at whichFile in the sound channel
specified by
whichChannel. For the sound to be played properly, the correct MIX Xtra must be
available to the movie, usually in the Xtras folder of the application.
When the sound file is in a different folder than the movie,
whichFile must specify the full path
to the file.
To play sounds obtained from a URL, it’s usually a good idea to use
downloadNetThing or
preloadNetThing() to d ow nload the file to a loc al disk fir st. This approac h can mi nimize problems
that may occur while the file is downloading.
The
sound playFile command streams files from disk rather than playing them from RAM. As
a result, using the
sound playFile command when playing digital video or when loading cast
members into memory can cause conflicts when the computer tries to read the disk in two
places at once.