Actionscript woes....

philio16 · 4 Apr 2007 at 20:00

Hi, apologies for creating another thread for this, could the powers that be please erase my old one? Thanks!

Right...so I got the listbox working, except for a small bug...if I click on a song it loads and plays fine, however if I click on the same song again it plays the next song in the list, which is wrong....it shouldn't be acting like a next button!

So again, if anyone can help it'd be much appreciated! Should all be around the xml loader area.... Thanks!

Code:

//Setup sound object
var s:Sound = new Sound();
s.onSoundComplete = playSong;
s.setVolume(75);

//Array of songs
var sa:Array = new Array();

//Currently playing song
var cps:Number =-1;

//Position of music
var pos:Number;

//Load the songs XML
var sngList:XML = new XML();
sngList.ignoreWhite = true;
sngList.onLoad = function()
{
		var nodes:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
		for(var i=0;i<nodes.length;i++)
		{
			sa.push(new Song(nodes[i].attributes.url, nodes[i].attributes.artist, nodes[i].attributes.track));
			songList.addItem(nodes[i].attributes.display, nodes[i].attributes.url);
		playSong();
		}
}

// when xml is loaded play first item

playSong.play(songList.getItemAt(0).data);

// highlight first song in listbox

songList.selectedIndex = 0;

// create a listener that responds 
// to changes in the listbox

var sngListener:Object = new Object();
sngListener.change = function() {

// play the item selected in listbox

playSong.play(songList.getItemAt(songList.seletedIndex).data);
playSong();
};

// register the event listener to listbox

songList.addEventListener("change", sngListener);

// load xml file

sngList.load("songs.xml");


//Play the MP3 file
function playSong():Void
{
	s = new Sound();
	s.onSoundComplete = playSong;
	s.setVolume(75);
	mute.gotoAndStop("on");
	if(cps == sa.length - 1)
	{
		cps = 0;
		s.loadSound(sa[cps].earl, true);
	}
	else
	{
		s.loadSound(sa[++cps].earl, true);
	}
	trackInfo.text = sa[cps].artist + " - " +	sa[cps].track;
	playPause.gotoAndStop("pause");
}

//Pauses the music
function pauseIt():Void
{
	pos = s.position;
	s.stop();
}

//Unpauses the music
function unPauseIt():Void
{
	s.start(pos/1000);
}

//Stops the music
function stopIt():Void
{
	s.stop();
}

//Music controls

//Play/Pause toggle
playPause.onRollOver = function()
{
	if(this._currentframe == 1) this.gotoAndStop("pauseOver");
	else this.gotoAndStop("playOver");
}

playPause.onRollOut = playPause.onReleaseOutside = function()
{
	if(this._currentframe == 10) this.gotoAndStop("pause");
	else this.gotoAndStop("play");
}

playPause.onRelease = function()
{
	if(this._currentframe == 10)
	{
		this.gotoAndStop("playOver");
		this._parent.pauseIt();
		logo_anim_mov.gotoAndPlay(2);
	}
	else
	{
		this.gotoAndStop("pauseOver");
		this._parent.unPauseIt();
		logo_anim_mov.gotoAndPlay(2);
	}
}

//Next button
next.onRollOver = function()
{
	this.gotoAndStop("nextOver");
}

next.onRollOut = next.onReleaseOutside = function()
{
	this.gotoAndStop("next");
}

next.onRelease = function()
{
	this._parent.playSong();
	logo_anim_mov.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

//Stop button
stop.onRollOver = function()
{
	this.gotoAndStop("stopOver");
}

stop.onRollOut = stop.onReleaseOutside = function()
{
	this.gotoAndStop("stop");
}

stop.onRelease = function()
{
	this._parent.stopIt();
	playPause.gotoAndStop("play");
	logo_anim_mov.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

//Mute button
mute.onRollOver = function()
{
	if(this._currentframe == 1) this.gotoAndStop("onOver");
	else this.gotoAndStop("offOver");
}

mute.onRollOut = mute.onReleaseOutside = function()
{
	if(this._currentframe == 10) this.gotoAndStop("on");
	else this.gotoAndStop("off");
}

mute.onRelease = function()
{
	if(this._currentframe == 10)
	{
		this.gotoAndStop("offOver");
		s.setVolume(0);
		logo_anim_mov.gotoAndPlay(2);
	}
	else
	{
		this.gotoAndStop("onOver");
		s.setVolume(75);
		logo_anim_mov.gotoAndPlay(2);
	}
}

tsinc80697 · 4 Apr 2007 at 20:21

only a very quick suggestion which might not work as i'm just on the way out but

Can you not set the current song that is playing to un-clickable, could put it in the function playSong so once it is selected it becomes un-clickable and stops any problems?

philio16 · 4 Apr 2007 at 20:49

sounds like an idea, but how would one do it? Im a total newbie to this level of programming!

Hector · 5 Apr 2007 at 11:20

i don't think you can make a single item unselectable..

perhaps try something like:

Code:

var curLabel:String = songList.getItemAt(0).label;
var sngListener:Object = new Object();
sngListener.change = function() {
	if (curLabel != songList.getItemAt(songList.selectedIndex).label) {
		// play the item selected in listbox
		playSong.play(songList.getItemAt(songList.selectedIndex).data);
		curLabel = songList.getItemAt(songList.selectedIndex).label;
		playSong();
	}
};

although there should be no reason why it selects the next song when selecting the same song twice but i've not got time to have a good look through, i'm afraid, so this is a bit of a bodge..

philio16 · 5 Apr 2007 at 12:53

Hector said:
Solution

Excellent

Works great thank you!!