Playing a sound effect when an Alert control is displayed in Flex

By On September 10, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can play an embedded MP3 when a Flex Alert control is displayed by setting the creationCompleteEffect style/effect.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting the duration of a sound effect in Flex

By On August 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the duration of a sound effect in Flex by setting the duration and useDuration properties.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Displaying a dynamically loaded MP3 file’s ID3 information in Flex using the SoundEffect class

By On March 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Displaying a dynamically loaded MP3 file’s ID3 information in Flex”, we saw how to load an MP3 into Flex using the Sound class.

The following example shows you how you can dynamically load and play an MP3 in Flex using the SoundEffect class, and access the Sound object and it’s [...]

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Embedding sound effects in your Flex applications

By On August 7, 2007 · 18 Comments

I was investigating a bug today with embedded sounds over a Remote Desktop Connection and came up with the following code that I thought I’d share.

I tested three different methods of embedding sound effects into a Flex application:
1) Using the <mx:SoundEffect /> tag, an inline @Embed, and mouseDownEffect
2) Using the [...]

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