Preventing a focus sound from playing on start

Any ideas on a slick way to prevent the focus sound from playing on start when you have a button that starts with the focus

I'm managing focus sound like so:

<g id="ButtonFocus">
<set style:backgroundFrame="1" />
<event name="PlayFocusSound" />
</g>

function playFocusSound() {
Player.audio.effect.play('file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/main.aca/focus.wav', 1, function focusSoundCallback(status){});
}

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Slugger25
Why write code to do something the sytem will do for you :-)
SQLIdiot
Wow, so many to choose from. Thanks!

Why an object element rather than event handler Just curious.
Noorul Ahmed
Several ways...
- Make your event handler ignore the first event after every markup page load
- Put the cue that calls ButtonFocus inside a parent container that has a begin of (eg) 1s so that it won't fire immediately
- Create an alternate ButtonFocusNoSound animation, and use a toggle to ensure that ButtonFocusNoSound fires once, and then subsequently ButtonFocus fires (eg, by making your begin expression an 'and' clause with value that is toggled by ButtonFocusNoSound)
- etc.
I would probably prefer the second approach, and I would play sounds via an <object> element rather than an event handler (assuming playing the sound is the only thing it does).
Tigers21
Could you elaborate on how you would actually play the sound via an object in markup

I was under the impression that system (ie player) events could only be triggered by script...

Thanks!
Eugene S.B.
Can you please post as a new thread (since this is a new question ). Thanks
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Noorul Ahmed

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Eugene S.B.