Is it possible to play or pause a video by clicking on the video itself than using the control bar's play and stop buttons ?

[nandinidas]

Is it possible to play or pause a video by clicking on the video itself than using the control bar's play and stop buttons ? If yes then how can we do it ?

[Joseph Labrecque]

Just add an event listener to the video display object itself. Are you building your own playback or using something prepackaged?

[nandinidas]

Building own playback with movieclips and buttons. Can you please help me with the code ?

[Joseph Labrecque · Accepted solution]

When you define the video object, simply add an event listener like:

myVideo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, toggleVideoPlayback);

private function toggleVideoPlayback(e:MouseEvent):void {

//if playing, pause

//if paused, play

}

[nandinidas]

Thanks...In case I had used the pre packaged flv player would I had to write the same code ?

[Joseph Labrecque]

The component player has its own listeners built in, I believe.

FLVPlayback - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 Flash) API Reference

[nandinidas]

Ok Thanks.