That's just a typo. It should have said: else sound(7).volume = 255
(This assumes that you were playing the sound in sound channel 7.) Irv At 9:25 AM -0400 10/1/01, Genevieve Young wrote: >>>Time for a tip: >> >>Since Kerry's fadeout script will take 255 frames to fade, rather >>than a time duration, (as was originally desired), here's a >>workaround/trick. >> >>use the sound channel to do the Lingo fade for you. >> >>In the frame channel before the one on which you want to hold while >>the QT soundtrack is being faded out, do this: >> >>on exitFrame me >> sound(7).fadeOut(3000) -- this sets the fade time = 3000 >>millesecs = 3 secs >>end >> >>& in the frame handler for the 'hold' frame: >> >>on exitFrame me >> x = sound(7).volume >> sprite(4).volume = x -- this presumes that the qt sprite is in channel 4 >> if x > 1 then go the frame >> else sound(7) = 255 -- <optional> this resets the sound channel. >>end >> >>In this way, the sound channel fadeOut, fadeIn, & most importantly: >>the arbitrary fadeTo can be used to do a time-based Lingo-tween to >>nearly any Lingo property. >> > > >When I used this code, ( in the frame handler for the 'hold' frame), > >I received the following debugger message : > >'Script Error: Expected = > >else sound (7) = ?255' > > >Where is sound (7)? Was this an arbitrary channel chosen? > >However, when I removed this optional line, the music continues >playing and does not stop. > >Why is that? > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
