Can I Dynamically Link and Play Sounds?

Question

I am building a morse code training program for my Ham Radio
Club. I am wondering how to script the code that would allow the
user to type (via a virtual keyboard on the program interface) a
sentence, linking each dynamically selected letter to a sound file
(MP3), and then play the setence in morse code when the play button
is selected? Displaying the typed text in a dynamic window is the
easy part, but linking each selected letter to a sound file, and
playing them in sequence is where I am stuck.
I cannot find any help for this type of script via manuals
and help files. Thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
David, WD8PUO

Answer 1

if you are going to encode punctuation, in addtion to
alpha-numeric characters you should probably invest the time to
create an associative array. i'll explain that if that's the route
you take.
in any case, you'll want to import into your library as the
character sound files that you'll need. you'll want to give each a
linkage id and you'll want to pick this wisely to ease your work
later.
you'll want to use the onChanged property of your input
textfield to store all the linkage ids (this where the associative
array would be used and/or your clever choices used in assigning
linkage ids) in an array.
you'll create a sound object from the flash sound class. when
the submit button is pressed you'll initialize the index of your
array that contains your linkage ids, you'll attach the
corresponding sound and apply the start() method of your sound
object.
you'll create an onSoundComplete method for your sound object
(and you'll probably want small delay in executing this next step
so there's some silence between characters) where you'll increment
your index and attach the corresponding sound and start it.
you are done.
don't forget to include a sound that corresponds to a blank
space. ie, silence for some amount time to indicate a new
word.