play sound on keypress - problem

Hi gang and Klaus

I have a little problem I don't seem to get buy... I am creating an installation where I will be hacking a keyboard to be able to make step-able keys.

What I am trying to do is if Key is down it plays a certain sound and it keeps playing it until the key has been released. How I am doing this right now is like this.

<plugin name="soundinterface" url="plugins/soundinterface.swf" rootpath="%CURRENTXML%" onloaded="" />




	<events
			onkeydown="action(keydown);"
			onkeyup="action(keyup);"
			/>


	<action name="keydown">
		trace(keydown - keycode=,keycode);
		if(keycode == 83, playsound(s1,breathe.mp3); );
	</action>
	
		<action name="keyup">
		trace(keyup - keycode=,keycode);
		if(keycode == 83, stopsound(s1); );


	</action>

But the problem there is, as soon as key 83 is pressed and being held down the sound just starts playing over and over again from the beginning only getting small portion of the sound... Is it possible to have an action that would be "keyPressed" that states if the key is being held down keep on running the sound?

I hope you get what I am getting at.

Hope for a quick reply... Thanks gang.

No one familiar with any solution to this problem...?

Thanks for reply Klaus, I tried to do this very quickly but did not get it to work, did you try it?

I will have to look a bit better into it a little later today.

I have it like this now and there is no sound.

<plugin name="soundinterface" url="plugins/soundinterface.swf" rootpath="%CURRENTXML%" onloaded="" />




	<events
			onkeydown="action(keydown);"
			onkeyup="action(keyup);"
			/>


<action name="keydown">
trace(keydown - keycode=,keycode);
if(keycode == 83, if(key83_pressed != true, playsound(s1,breathe.mp3); set(key83_pressed,true););  );
</action>


<action name="keyup">
trace(keyup - keycode=,keycode);
if(keycode == 83, stopsound(s1); set(key83_pressed,false); );
</action>

What am I doing wrong?

Yes I am using the Beta 8 and this code does not work.

EDIT: I had by some way put the old Beta 7 over the swf file now with Beta 8 it seems to work like a charm.... Nice...

Thanks again Klaus

While i have you on the topic, would it be hard to implement a fade on the keyup.. so the sound fades smoothly?

EDIT: just to make sure I am clear fade the volume down, could happen pretty fast, its just to try and get rid of "clicks" when sounds are cut all of a sudden.

Just some brainstorms for my own project and some future ideas for you.