I know that it is possible to set timing events with the UMP, but if you have a media p_layer_ on the backgound, being used in this instance to play short bits of narrative text on various pages, can one set up timing events for one particular piece of audio. This is for tb8.5, native at present and possibly DHTML later. What I'd like to do is have for example: Audio clip 2 of page foo show and hide pictures 1, 2 and 3 progressively. Piece of cake using the ump but I've not found an easy way with a p_layer_ on the background. Either I'm trying to address the wrong method/s or its not possible. If anyone has a definitive answer I'd be most grateful. Thanks

Dom, I don't know if this method will be useful to you or not, but here is what we did in a situation that sounds similar to yours. We do not use a media p_layer_ to play our audio clips.  We just _script_ a button to play an audio clip.  In order for things to happen during the playing of the clip we first find the position in the audio clip where we want things to happen.  We use a product called Cool Edit to edit a lot of our clips.  Once we have found our positions, we use the wait command to break up the clip.  Let me give you an example rather than trying to explain what we are doing. to handle butt_onclick_ mmstop all mmclose all