Play/pause button actionscript

Swarfega,

> Well I'm not rreally sure what the if statement does a
> whole if I'm honest.

Honest helps us both. ;)

In your most recent code snippit ...

on (release) {
ns.pause();
if (stopped) {
ns.seek(0);
ns.play();
stopped = false;
}
}

... the if() statement tests the value of a variable named stopped. The way
ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 work, if the stopped variable doesn't exist, then
the if() statement will basically interpret that as a value of false. So,
the first time this code is encountered, the NetStream instance (ns) will
pause, and then the if() statement will ... well, it won't do anything,
because stopped doesn't yet exist -- that is, it doesn't yet register as
true.

The next time this code is encountered, it will do the same thing,
because stopped is never set to true. If stopped has been initialized
somewhere as true, then the if() statement will natrually perform the
methods in its own block, then set the value of stopped to false.

> I do Understand the different parts of it though. I got that
> staement from that tutorial.

Gotcha. Okay, I only glanced through it ... it's not something I wrote
or experimented with, just something that, at a glance, might give you the
answer you're looking for.

> I tried downloading the fla file you had but it's incomplete.

What FLA is that?

> Do I amend it myself so it will show the different interactive
> symbols?

I'm not sure what FLA you mean.


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Well I'm not rreally sure what the if statement does a whole if I'm honest. I do Understand the different parts of it though. I got that staement from that tutorial. I tried downloading the fla file you had but it's incomplete. Do I amend it myself so it will show the different interactive symbols?

seek goes to the exact second in the video
play plays the fil when it hads been paused.
stopped(false) means that the option for the video to be stopped has been set off.

Swarfega,

> Hi I was wondering how to make a video playable again
> once the full the duration of the video has played.

You can seek to the beginning and play.

> I press play and nothing happens. For the record my play
> button is also used as a pause button.

If this is based on code I suggested earlier in this thread, than the
play button is actually (technically) a pause button; it's just that the
NetStream.pause() method toggles play.

> Here is the actionscript I'm using:
>
> on (release){
> ns.pause();
> if (stopped)
> {
> ns.seek(0)
> ns.play();
> stopped=false;
> }
> }

That stopped variable is new. It looks to me like you're taking little
bits and pieces of various people's suggestions and patching them together
without really knowing what they do. While there's nothing "wrong" or "bad"
about that, it does tend to make coding endeavors harder than they might be
otherwise, in light of new considerations each time.

Did you visit the tutorial I posted in the other thread on how to
determine the end of an FLV file?


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."