SFX loop

[DaveC]

g'day guys,

so I have a game where if you hold down a button it initiates your spaceships jet engine. and so i want a sound effect of the engine to play as long as the key is held down... normally this would be no problem but when I export it to flash it dramatically slows down, from 50 to about 25-30 fps...

the event is simply:

+every 00'00'10 seconds
repeat while spacebar pressed

*Play Sample Jet Engine

the sample is about half a second long and only 8kb... it works fine as a standard .exe app, it only goes slow when i test the SWF. there is not much else going on in the game, when i remove these events, the frame rate returns to normal...

am I missing something? is there a way i can loop this sound effect without slowing down the game?

[JoKa]

Avoid the Timer, maybe this helps:
- repeat while spacebar pressed
- Sample Jet engine is not playing
---> play sample

[Steven]

How about repeating the sample infinitely when the key is first pressed and then checking for the key no longer being pressed and stopping that specific sample?

[DaveC]

@steven
works perfectly.. argh I should have played around with it more before asking the question cheers!

[Steven]

No probs