Miaw oddity

When I close an MIAW, the MP3 file that was playing starts
over. It's an
MPEG Advance Xtra cast member.
In my original main movie, I pause this audio before closing
the window.
When I noticed this behavior there, I created a simple main
movie for
testing and the MIAW's behavior was the same. I put a
breakpoint on all of
the audio commands and saw that none is executed when the
window is closed.
I can't figure out what is happening here. Shouldn't the
audio stay in it's
paused state when the window is closed? I also put a "put the
frame" in one
of the window's exitFrame handlers to insure, as I thought,
that the window
continues to play even though it is closed (but not
forgotten). I'm
assuming from this that nothing outside of my own Lingo
changes if the
window is open or closed, it's just not visible when closed.
But why the
audio starts over is beyond me.
Does anyone have any insight into this?
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com

So I did a test where I imported an MP3 file as an MPEG
Advance Xtra member
and as a regular linked audio member. I opened the miaw from
a main movie
and the audio played. I issued a pause command to the audio
and it paused.
Then I closed the MIAW (but didn't forget it) and the audio
started playing
immediately from the beginning. How can one develop a project
made up of
modules as MIAW's and expect to be able to jump to other
modules and have
the audio pause, then play again when that module is returned
to?
Am I going to have to store the audio time and Director frame
and restore
the state when returning? This seems like an unnecessary
hassle.
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
"forum.macromedia.com" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> When I close an MIAW, the MP3 file that was playing
starts over. It's an
> MPEG Advance Xtra cast member.
>
> In my original main movie, I pause this audio before
closing the window.
> When I noticed this behavior there, I created a simple
main movie for
> testing and the MIAW's behavior was the same. I put a
breakpoint on all
> of the audio commands and saw that none is executed when
the window is
> closed. I can't figure out what is happening here.
Shouldn't the audio
> stay in it's paused state when the window is closed? I
also put a "put
> the frame" in one of the window's exitFrame handlers to
insure, as I
> thought, that the window continues to play even though
it is closed (but
> not forgotten). I'm assuming from this that nothing
outside of my own
> Lingo changes if the window is open or closed, it's just
not visible when
> closed. But why the audio starts over is beyond me.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this?
>
> --
> Craig Wollman
> Lingo Specialist
> Word of Mouth Productions
> 212-928-9581
>
> www.wordofmouthpros.com
>

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