you could try opening them all & just set the visibility of each
window to activate them. It's the opening & forgetting that disrupts
the sound channels.
reason: all MIAWs must share the single set of 8 sound channels -
when one MIAW gets forgotten, the sound channels get a 'stop' command
& if it was a stage sound playing ... oh well.
hth
-Buzz
At 8:23 PM +0100 9/16/01, wobbly wrote:
>cheers buzz
>sadly it's in channel 1 :(
>but thanks
>
>Andy
>ps if this is only part of the collective response, my apologies, I get the
>digest version.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "wobbly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 7:50 PM
>Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Miaw type 3 kills sound in stage
>
>
>> Agreed - it's annoying & it's been brought up TONS of times.
>> (& it's been there since d7 ...)
>>
>> suggestion:
>> try playing the sounds in channel 1 or 2.
>> These 2 channels get treated slightly differently when MIAWs get
>> opened/closed/forgotten.
>>
>> -Buzz
>>
>> At 10:10 AM +0100 9/16/01, wobbly wrote:
>> >Dear list,
>> >Director 8.5 running on Windows 98 SE target machines PC medium CD ROM
>> >
>> >My project consists of a multi movie information system with pages
>> >containing mixed data types I have 3 other MIAWs all type 3: an always
>> >visible general purpose tool bar, an intermittent back and forth bar as
>> >required and a toolbox bar containing among other things a volume
>control.
>> >My problem is that calling the toolbox miaw from the tool bar instantly
>> >kills the sound in the movie playing on the stage. This defeats the
>purpose
>> >of calling the volume control :)!
>> >I have tried switching modal properties to no avail.
>> >the toolbar is loaded in the first movie after the stub with
>> >gNavigation=window"Navigation"
>> > gNavigation.filename= "navigation.dir"
>> > gNavigation.windowType=3
>> >gNavigation.modal=false
>> > gNavigation.visible=false
>> > window("Navigation").rect=rect(the stageRight-226,the stageTop+1,the
>> >stageRight-4,the stagetop+58)
>> > window("Navigation").movetofront()
>> >
>> >and then each movie initiates it with
>> > window("Navigation").movetofront()
>> > window("Navigation").visible=true
>> >the tool box is called thus from the toolbar
>> >
>> >
>> >on mouseup me
>> > global gtoolbox
>> > gtoolbox=window"toolbox"
>> > gtoolbox.filename= "toolbox.dir"
>> > gtoolbox.windowType=3
>> > gtoolbox.modal=false
>> > gtoolbox.visible=true
>> >end mouseup me
>> >
>> >my hair lays in piles on the floor
>> >
>> >Cordially yours
>> >Andy smith
>> >
>> >
>> >
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