Pause / Play audio

Any ideas on how I can pause my .swf audio (using a "Pause"
button, then hit a "play" button to either resume the audio where
it stopped or at least restart that same audio segment?
At present, if the scene is "paused" and then the viewer hits
"play", the scene resumes at the stop-point, but the audio segment
that was interrupted is silent.
Thanks for any insight you can offer!

The Sound class is the only thing you really need. Classes
define
objects in Flash, and generally describe one or more of the
following three
categories: properties (characteristics), methods (things the
object can
do), and events (things the object can react to).
Look up the "Sound class" entry in the ActionScript 2.0
Language
Reference and you'll have a complete "Owner's Manual" of
programmed sound in
Flash.
Nothing wrong with one of the Media components, by the way.
Given this
project is a CBT module, it may actually come in handy. For
this, look up
"Media class" in the Components Language Reference. The
Components docs
aren't organized nearly as neatly as the ActionScript docs,
but you still
get a list of properties, methods, and events. Components do
tend to weigh
a bit, though, and may be more than you need.
If you just want to start, pause, and resume sound, check
out the
hyperlink in my earlier reply. :)
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."
"scrinmemphis" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ev360l$kuu$[email protected]..
> OK...
>
> I'll show my naivity here.
>
> "attaching the audio to a media component."? What does
that mean. Sorry.
> I'm fairly new to Flash... ;-)
>
> Thanks!

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itunes9:
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#include <dsound.h>
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private:
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int speed;
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Microsoft pulled the plug on DirectSound HAL in Vista due to lack of hardware support. The SAL exists for
software compatibility, good intention but bad performance as there is no longer a direct path from
DirectSound to audio drivers.
People choose DirectSound for its Direct-ness
but there is no reason to choose it now.
DirectX SDK was integrated
with WIndows SDK which ships with Visual Studio 2012 so you don't need additional downloads for
WASAPI and XAudio 2.
Just look up the documentation for headers/librarieslike every other Windows API you use. If you have a hard time to find the documentation then you need to go to search engines and find search engine tutorials.
There are plenty of samples for both WASAPI and XAudio 2, both in the Windows SDK and online. The DirectX team has some suggestions on which to use on their team blog.
You can find experts for those APIs at the Windows Desktop Pro-Audio Application Development forum and the
Audio/XACT forum on MSDN (link left out for you to practice your search skills). Again, it is fine to ask for hints but don't ask the whole
solution. You are competing with others who just need a hint to finish work here. The time spent on working on your assignment would be better spent on helping on giving hints to others.
Visual C++ MVP

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