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Software Needed: Eclipse MTASC ASDT Flashout Java JDK Installation: Make sure the latest version of the Java JDK installed in your machine. Preferably J2SE 5.0 or higher. Install the JDK preferably in c:\program files\Java http://java.sun.com/j2se/index.jsp Download the latest version of the Eclipse IDE and extract it to c:\program files\Eclipse or any other folder you want. Create a shortcut, right click, go to properties and enter the following argument to the Target Path C:\program files\Eclipse\eclipse.exe –clean Download MTASC (Motion Twin ActionScript Compiler) and extract it to c:\program files\MTASC or any other folder you prefer. Installing ASDT (Actionscript Development Tool) . Open eclipse, Help – Software updates - Add Site. Add the following url in the location text box. http://aseclipseplugin.sourceforge.net/updates and click ok. Check ASDT and click Finish. Download the latest version of Flashout and extract the content of the archive (excluding the Flashout.as file) ...

Okie! Handling sounds in AS 3.0 is so much of a bottleneck. Well its not a matter of something wrong with Adobe or the scripting language itself. But personally I just want to avoid so much trouble of declaring variables up and down just to MUTE the sounds. If only there was a simple way to do this. So here it is. To handle sounds this is what you do. I shall give an example for you to easily understand it instead. var vRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest("sounds\monica_yells.mp3"); var vSound:Sound=new Sound(lRequest); var vChannel:SoundChannel; public function playMonica() { vChannel = vSound.play(); } public function stopSound() { vChannel.stop(); } public function muteSound() { var lTransform:SoundTransform=new SoundTransform(); lTransform.volume=1; vChannel.soundTransform=lTransform; }