This
brief tutorial contains an FLA file that you
can download and use for your own projects. The
file below
is accompanied only by a fairly brief explanation of its purpose. It will
be up to you to examine them and determine how
they will be most useful
to you.
In most cases, you can use the FLA as provided and you should only have to modify
the graphics and perhaps adjust the function slightly to suit your needs. You
will also likely need to change the size of the background graphic that the video
plays in, but the very existence of this graphic is optional. I like to use a
background graphic because it gives you a visual placeholder, allowing you to
position your other elements around it so that they will not obscure the video
while it is playing. The size of this placeholder (gleaned from the Info Panel
in Flash) can also be transferred to the Custom SWF dimensions in the Flix Video
tab so that all your parts fit together as expected. The clip that the video
gets loaded into is just an empty movie clip and won't need to be resized, only
repositioned to represent the upper left corner of the loaded movie.
We can't foresee all possible movie configurations though, so it could be that
you only use certain elements from this file. I personally use parts from this
file all the time. It is quite common for me to copy and paste either the Information
Clips that return information about the status of loading movies or play controls
that give viewers the ability to control the operation of the video. They provide
quick functionality and you can pick and choose which elements you want to include.
This
movie preloads and checks the status of a streamed
sound in a Flash movie. It is a fairly simple
mechanism that you probably won't use every day,
but the techniques used in this movie can come
in quite handy and are a nice addition to every
Flash designer's arsenal of available tools.
Other than dealing with sound, you can also study the FLA to see one way to use
variables and dynamic text boxes to display the status of your movie or movie
clip. This one sets a variable that lets you know if the sound is playing or
not. But further, since the main timeline is longer than the actual streamed
sound, it also tells you whether the sound was playing or done when you stopped
it depending on which frame you are on when you press the stop button.
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