Flash Review: Adding Sound to Buttons

There are days when I wish that Macromedia, back in Flash's original development days, hadn't included an option to 1. add sound, and 2. trigger that sound on various mouse events. If Flash couldn't do that, there wouldn't be overly-glossy smileys screaming "LIKE, OH MY GAWD!" when I'm quietly poking around online; creepy disembodied heads couldn't talk at me randomly and tell me to type in the text box so their heads can melt like Michael Jackson under a heat lamp while they repeat what I typed in a robotic monotone. But if wishes were horses, I'd have a whole My Little Pony farm - and since I don't, Flash must have the ability to add sound to various events...like buttons. Buttons can be used to trigger all kinds of sound events, and with this lesson you, too, can add your own individual note to the cacophony of the web.