Sound Advice Needed on Sound

[seajay]

Hallo,

In this AS2 example, there's two mp3 files with linkage names "annoying-mosquito" and "fly-swatter."

I play the 1st mp3:

SND = new Sound([_target]);
SND.attachSound("annoying-mosquito");
SND.start();

Then I play the 2nd mp3:

SND.attachSound("fly-swatter");
SND.start();

Both the 1st mp3 & the 2nd mp3 are attached to the same variable SND with (seemingly) no ill effect.

Question: do I need to clear the contents of the variable SND before the 2nd attachSound?

Or is Flash doing that for me?

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I've concluded this AS2 code is safe.

Flash loads the sound into memory and knows what to do with it.

SND is only a pointer to that sound in memory and can be set to other sounds as needed.

[kannanartist]

Hi seajay,
You can use the same SND variable many times (no need for another variable). Flash automatically clears and assigns the new sound to the same variable. I have done lot of work in this way and I had no issues till now.

Hope it helps you.

Kannan

[seajay]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Yes, Flash is great that way.

My programming background is from a time where you had to initialize and then erase every single variable yourself... lest you unleash the hounds of Hades.