ActionScript 3.0 :: Multiple Sound Channels At Different Vols?
Jul 14, 2009
is it possible to have multiple SoundChannels? And have a volume control control multiple volumes?
i have a site that uses .flv's with sound all throughout. Volume control is attached to a sound transform that affects the stream. I also added a piece of code to this function that creates a new soundtransformation object, adds it to a soundfactory object i have in a private var and adjusts that volume by 40% of the .flv's volume. This seems like it should work - but doesn't so i am wondering two things. a) can i have multiple sound channels (in this case the stream and the channel i made for bkg music) b) if i can why do my sound transformations not get implemented on this music track. I also tried to explcitly set the music volume to 0.4 via a sound transform right after i load it - which does not work either.
heres the code
ActionScript Code:
trace("current vol is :" + currentVolume + " And 40% of that is: " + (currentVolume * 0.4));
var st:SoundTransform = new SoundTransform(currentVolume, 0);
stream.soundTransform = st;
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