How to make your Flash games play sounds AND why the game looks completely different

[YeOldeLuke]

First question: When I try to convert my game into swf, I'm told that "the following extensions are not compatible with the build type of the application:

DirectShow.mfx
adshow.mfx

Do you want to build this application anyway? If so the missing objects will have no effects."

So how can I make sound files play in my game?
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Second question: When converting to swf the game looks completely different, possibly related. It ignores the in-game borders and shows a bunch of stuff it shouldn't, like counters I left off screen. Strings are also resized screwing with a lot of my placing. Is there a way to fix that?

Examples:

How I designed the Starter screen: My Apple ToC.png

How it shows up (Note the counters on the right; I put them off the viewable screen so they'd be invisible):Flash Apple ToC.png

[RhysD]

You should be able to just play sounds using the Play Sound action (see image) It supports WAV, MP3 or OGG if I recall correctly.



As for the second problem, it looks like the actual size of your game window is set to be larger than the frame. Check in the properties of your application what the window size is set at.

If that doesn't fix it, then move the counters to the left of the screen. You can also change their display properties from "Numbers" to "Hidden".

[YeOldeLuke]

If I play a file from my computer, will it maintain the file once I've converted to Flash? Or do I have to add it to my game somehow?

Also, will adjusting the size of my game window fix the weird placings of my strings?

EDIT: I'm getting a weird error; when attempting to play sounds from "play a sample," it corrupts the file somehow. Everything works, but the song is jagged and doesn't seem to get past the first few notes. Sounds really weird. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[RhysD]

What type of file are you trying to play?

[YeOldeLuke]

Wow I'm stupid...I had "Timer is greater than 0:00", which meant it tarted playing the song every mllisecond. THAT sounded weird. It works now.

Still getting the string problem though. Is there a way to make the strings look better? Perhaps turns the strings into Active objects or something?

[happygreenfrog]

What font are you using for your strings?

[nivram]

Question 2. We had this problem during testing in 2010. Add a layer at the top, set it's scrolling co-efficient to 0. Then create a black background object to surround the edges of the screen to block out the objects off screenJust add a layer at the top, set it's scrolling co-efficient to 0. Then create a black background object to surround the edges of the screen to block out the objects off screen.

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[YeOldeLuke]

What font are you using for your strings?

Fixedsys at the moment. Of course I'm willing to change it if it fixes the problem.

Question 2. We had this problem during testing in 2010. Add a layer at the top, set it's scrolling co-efficient to 0. Then create a black background object to surround the edges of the screen to block out the objects off screenJust add a layer at the top, set it's scrolling co-efficient to 0. Then create a black background object to surround the edges of the screen to block out the objects off screen.

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Trying that now.

[happygreenfrog]

Fixedsys at the moment. Of course I'm willing to change it if it fixes the problem.



Trying that now.

Fixedsys always looks like that for me. It only supports 1 font size for me (I think it was 9). Changing it should fix the issue (don't use system either, it will do the same thing). Try Arial, or Tahoma. Or Lucidia Console, if you want it to have a system font-like feel.

[YeOldeLuke]

Now the game is having problems with the mp3s.

Loading configuration file C:\Program Files (x86)\Multimedia Fusion 2\Data\Runtime\Flash\Flex\frameworks\flex-config.xml
C:\Users\Nicholas\AppData\Local\Temp\Fla7B50.tmp\R untimeFlash.mxml(31): Error: unsupported sampling rate (32000Hz)

[Embed(source="0005.mp3")]

C:\Users\Nicholas\AppData\Local\Temp\Fla7B50.tmp\R untimeFlash.mxml(31): Error: Unable to transcode 0005.mp3.

[Embed(source="0005.mp3")]

C:\Users\Nicholas\AppData\Local\Temp\Fla7B50.tmp\R untimeFlash.mxml(27): Error: unsupported sampling rate (48000Hz)

[Embed(source="0003.mp3")]

C:\Users\Nicholas\AppData\Local\Temp\Fla7B50.tmp\R untimeFlash.mxml(27): Error: Unable to transcode 0003.mp3.

[Embed(source="0003.mp3")]