User manual MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH

[. . . ] Using Flash Trademarks Add Life to the Web, Afterburner, Aftershock, Andromedia, Allaire, Animation PowerPack, Aria, Attain, Authorware, Authorware Star, Backstage, Bright Tiger, Clustercats, ColdFusion, Contribute, Design In Motion, Director, Dream Templates, Dreamweaver, Drumbeat 2000, EDJE, EJIPT, Extreme 3D, Fireworks, Flash, Flash Lite, Flex, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JFusion, JRun, Kawa, Know Your Site, Knowledge Objects, Knowledge Stream, Knowledge Track, LikeMinds, Lingo, Live Effects, MacRecorder Logo and Design, Macromedia, Macromedia Action!, Macromedia Breeze, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia M Logo and Design, Macromedia Spectra, Macromedia xRes Logo and Design, MacroModel, Made with Macromedia, Made with Macromedia Logo and Design, MAGIC Logo and Design, Mediamaker, Movie Critic, Open Sesame!, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, Sitespring, SoundEdit, Titlemaker, UltraDev, Web Design 101, what the web can be, and Xtra are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. [. . . ] The Sound object is a built-in object that lets you control sounds in a Flash application. For more information, see "Sound class" in Flash ActionScript Language Reference. The onSoundComplete event of a Sound object is invoked automatically when the attached sound file finishes playing. If the sound is looped a specified number of times, the event is triggered when the sound finishes looping. The Sound object has two properties that you can use with the onSoundComplete event. The duration property is a read-only property representing the duration, in milliseconds, of the sound sample attached to the sound object. The position property is a read-only property representing the number of milliseconds the sound has been playing in each loop. The onSoundComplete event lets you manipulate sounds in a variety of powerful ways, such as the following: · Creating a dynamic playlist or sequencer · Creating a multimedia presentation that checks for narration completion before advancing to the next frame or scene · Building a game that synchronizes sounds to particular events or scenes and transitions smoothly between different sounds · Timing an image change to a sound--for example, changing an image when a sound is half over 208 Chapter 11: Working with Sound Compressing sounds for export You can select compression options for individual event sounds and export the sounds with those settings. You can also select compression options for individual stream sounds. However, all stream sounds in a document are exported as a single stream file, using the highest setting of all those applied to individual stream sounds. This includes stream sounds in video objects. You select compression options for individual sounds in the Sound Properties dialog box. You can also select global compression settings for event sounds or stream sounds in the Publish Settings dialog box. These global settings are applied to individual event sounds or all stream sounds if you do not select compression settings for the sounds in the Sound Properties dialog box. For more information, see "Publishing Flash documents" on page 311. You can also override export settings specified in the Sound Properties dialog box by selecting Override Sound Settings in the Publish Settings dialog box. This option is useful if you want to create a larger high-fidelity audio file for local use and a smaller low-fidelity version for the web. For more information, see "Setting publish options for the Flash SWF file format" on page 312. The sampling rate and degree of compression make a significant difference in the quality and size of sounds in exported SWF files. The more you compress a sound and the lower the sampling rate, the smaller the size and the lower the quality. You should experiment to find the optimal balance between sound quality and file size. When working with imported MP3 files, you can export the files in MP3 format using the same settings that the files had when imported. Note: In Windows, you can also export all the sounds from a document as a WAV file using File > Export > Export Movie. [. . . ] literal Boolean value; if true, the value that is returned from this control is enclosed by quotation marks (""). If false, which is the default setting, the returned value does not have quotation marks. (""). Number; sets the maximum number of characters that can be entered. maxlength multiline Boolean value; if true, more than one line of input is allowed. If false, which is the default setting, only one line of input is allowed. [. . . ]