Creating ActionScript CuePoints

yevri,

> I was hoping to add cuepoints and their times to this
>  script instead. Can I do that with the FLVPlayback?

    You can, and the  FLVPlayback component makes it convenient by way of its addASCuePoint()  method.  (If you look up the FLVPlayback class entry of the ActionScript 2.0  Components Language Reference, you'll find this method.)

    By the looks  of it, your FLVPlayback instance name is vid, so assuming that's true, your  code might look something like this:

var cue:Object = new  Object();

// first cue point
cue.time = 2.444;
cue.name =  "save";
cue.type = "actionscript";
vid.addASCuePoint(cue);

//  second cue point
cue.time = 5.786;
cue.name =  "americans";
vid.addASCuePoint(cue);

// third cue point
cue.time =  12.002;
cue.name = "howmuch";
vid.addASCuePoint(cue);

//  etc.

    I assume, for this example, that you're using ActionScript 2.0,  based on the code you showed already.  Notice that in my suggested code,  I've
declared a generic Object instance named "cue", which is just an  arbitrary name.  The FLVPlayback component expects this cue point object to  be
formatted in a certain way, which corresponds to the data you can  alternatively provide with the Component Inspector panel; namely, the cue  point needs a time value, a name, and a type (here, "actionscript").  In the  code I've shown, I only set the .type property once, because it keeps the  value "actionscript" until you change it.  The other properties, .time and  .name, are changed for each cue point, then passed into the FLVPlayback  instance, vid, by way of the addASCuePoint() method.

    You can  follow this code by the cuePoint event handler you already have in place,  and it works fine (just tested it here).  Note, though, that you can  *significamtly* reduce the complexity of your event handler by doing away  with the repeated if() statements.  Here's how:

>  if (cues.info.name  == "save") {
>  slides.gotoAndPlay("save");
>  }

    By  happenstance, it looks like you've matched the names of your cue points to  the names of your frame labels.  This is a really good thing!  So really,  you don't have to check what the .name value is (here, "save"), and then  manually enter that same value ("save") into the gotoAndPlay() method. The  value of the expression cues.info.name *is* "save", so you can just pass in  the expression.  Check it out:

vidList = new  Object();
vidList.cuePoint = function(cues:Object):Void {
   slides.gotoAndPlay(cues.info.name);
};
vid.addEventListener("cuePoint",  vidList);

... and that replaces your numerous if() statements, because  rather than checking the value and then typing it in by hand, you're simply  passing that value into the gotoAndPlay() method.  Does that make  sense?

David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS4 for  Designers
http://tinyurl.com/dpsFoundationFlashCS4
"Luck  is the residue of good design."