Sound in loaded swf

i have a project i'm working on that loads various swfs into
a scrollPane object, the problem is that one of them contains sound
and the sound does not stop when a new swf is loaded into the
scrollPane? Does anyone know what happens to the previous swf when
you loaded another into the same scrollPane using the load
function? and anyway to stop the sound?

quote:
Originally posted by:
kglad
that's a class name. just copy the code and apply it. it will
work unless you have other sounds playing that you don't want
stopped.
i assume you would have to import the sound mixer class as
well. Anyway it seems to work so problem solved, thanks for the
help.

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