Tutorial for how to use the “attachSound” method in Flash

Posted August 26, 2004

I learned as soon as I started to use sound in Flash, that placing a sound in the timeline can be problematic and hard to control. I soon started to experiment with the attachSound method, and was thrilled at the control I had

Here is the example code for a sample attachSound script on a timeline;

Sound = new Sound(_root.thisClip);
Sound.attachSound(”test”);
Sound.start(0,5);

This code will attach a New Sound to an object called sound. It will attach that sound to the path you supply in the parenthesis. This can be blank if you plan to use it on the current timeline.

Sound.attachSound is the name of the sound you want to attach. In order to make a sound ready to attach;

Open the Library
Find the sound, and right click it.
Find an option called “Linkage”
Click the option that says “export for actionscript” which will make it possible for you to control this sound, although not actually on the timeline, using actionscript(just like it says).

Then give the sound a name, and that is the value you substitute for “test”;

Also, for Sound.start(), you can specify the starting place of the sound and how many times you want to loop in the two respective values.

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