Flash 8 professional - making a pause button

hi, can anyone help
im making a website for music and video and need to find out how i go about making a pause button for audio,. it has to pause the sound being played and then restart the sound from the point it was paused, can anyone help. drastic situation here - rob

cheers mate, i got a link and sorted it, thanks for your advice, great help. - rob

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I imported a power point project and published it in flash swf, and when I play a slide (in flash) and try to pause the play it does not work and it continues to '
play until the end of the slide and then it stops and when I click it continues to the next slide,
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2- ppt 2003
3- output: flash swf
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Hello Lilybiri
Thank you for your patience with me and I will attach 5 snapshots (for higher resolution, right click on the image and choose open with I.E. or you could zoom in the page)
You also asked me about the click box; yes I inserted click boxes in only 2 slides (example: slide 3), as a test, in the hope of making the pause button work but it did not do the trick, you also asked about the image in the background, it is an image and not a looping video or animation.
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Hello I'm a designer by trade & having difficulty getting my head around scripting. For most of what I'm doing, I'm managing to get by modifying snippetts that I've found online. However, one spot where I'm now stuck is making a pause button work for streaming mp3 files. I should qualify that adding the pause button was an after thought that I now realise is essential to the project working properly. The mp3 needs to start playing as soon as it starts downloading which is working fine. The mp3 needs to stop when the user goes to the next or the previous page, which is also working fine. But when the pause button is clicked first time, nothing happens. When it's clicked a second time, another instance of the mp3 starts playing. The pause and stop buttons work on this second instance, but not the first. I'm sure there's something really straight forward that I'm missing here, but I need a hand to find it. Following is the script as it now stands. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundLoaderContext;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var s2:Sound = new Sound();
var req2:URLRequest = new URLRequest("intro2.mp3");
var context2:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(8000, true);
var isPlaying:Boolean = new Boolean();
var pausePosition:Number = new Number();
s2.load(req2, context2);
s2.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete, false, 0, true);
var soundchannels2:SoundChannel = s2.play();
//isplaying = true;
BackBut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, f3_ClickToStopAllSounds);
controller.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, btnPressController, false, 0, true);
stop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, btnPressStop, false, 0, true);
function onComplete(evt:Event):void
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soundchannels2 = s2.play();
isPlaying = true;
function btnPressController(evt:MouseEvent):void
switch(isPlaying)
case true: controller.gotoAndStop(2);
pausePosition = soundchannels2.position;
soundchannels2.stop();
isPlaying = false; break;
case false: controller.gotoAndStop(1);
soundchannels2 = s2.play(pausePosition);
isPlaying = true; break;
function btnPressStop(evt:MouseEvent):void
{ pausePosition = 0;
soundchannels2.stop();
controller.gotoAndStop(2);
isPlaying = false;
function f3_ClickToStopAllSounds(event:MouseEvent):void
SoundMixer.stopAll();
soundchannels2.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLE TE, s2Complete);
function s2Complete(e:Event)
this.nextFrame();
stop();
BackBut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goback);
function goback(event:MouseEvent):void
prevFrame();
stop();

Problem solved!!
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this is not truly an event driven state machine....
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wrong use of boolean controls
not a true state machine
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event driven state machine.llb ‏27 KB

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Hi, It's been over a year since I played with Flash last, and
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I have a .flv file which I want to play on my website. It
should display a poster frame when the page load, and not autoplay
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/getting_started.html

From AVI to FLV for Flash MX Professional 2004

Hi there...
Let me thank you for your attention...
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Please I appreciate your advice ever since I just learned everything as I developed my SWF and other files.
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check out the source code on this page
http://rodneybauer.com/whiteboard2.htm
im using flv file...not swf file....and using html5....see below for more info on that...
you can use other video / sound assets besides flv
----------------random notes for you to check out------------
mobile device video info
The options actually match those of the most recent iPod Video, which uses H.264 video, up to 1.5Mbps, 640 x 480 pixels, and 30 frames per second with low-complexity AAC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz stereo audio. On the lower end, bandwidths up to 768Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, and 30 frames per second are also used, known as Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3. Both options can be output with .m4v, .mp4, or .mov extensions.
iTunes. The simplest way is to use iTunes built-in converter. Apple makes it fairly simple to convert videos to play on the Apple TV or iPod, which are also conversions that can be used on the iPhone. Any video that can play in iTunes, then, can be converted to play on the iPhone, and local files can also be synced directly to the iPhone via iTunes sync conduit, making for a fairly easy process. Two downsides: first, iTunes uses a "lowest common denominator" approach, meaning that there are no customized options for encoding into H.264. Also, some users have reported a bug in the most recent version of iTunes that creates video files with no audio, so don’t toss your original video clips until you’ve had a chance to test out the new H.264-compressed video clips.
Handbrake. Handbrake is the next most-popular encoding tool for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, and it’s available in a command-line version for Linux. Handbrake does a lot more than just H.264 conversions, but for purposes of this article, Handbrake would be used to transcode an MPEG-2 transport stream or other non-H.264 formats and codecs into H.264 video files. Speed on the product is quite good, and it has the option of a single-profile conversion (like iTunes) or the ability to customize encoding or profiles and then save the tweaks for future encodings. Handbrake has made a name for itself in DVD-to-iPod conversion, so the extension of Handbrake to the iPhone is one that many users trust.
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First, let’s deal with some very basic stuff, like where this will work and where it won’t. As you can see in the table below, only the latest versions of most browsers support native video playback using HTML5’s <video> tag.
HTML5 <video> support by browser: Fx 3.0     Fx 3.5     IE7     IE8     IE9     Safari 3     Safari 4     Chrome 3+     Opera 10.5
Since Firefox 3.0 and IE 7 & 8 lack any support for HTML5 video, you’ll have to come up with a fallback plan for serving video to those users. Depending on what you want to do you, could fallback first to Quicktime and then, failing that, to Flash. That’s the strategy used in Video for Everyone (note that as of v0.4, Video for everyone no longer falls back to QuickTime).
To keep things simple we’re just going to fall straight from HTML5 to Flash.
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The next thing you need to understand is what is actually happening when you load and play a video file in your web browser. You’re probably used to thinking of video as .mp4 or .mov files, but unfortunately it’s not that simple. The actual file formats are just containers. Think of them as a bit like a .zip file — they hold other stuff inside.
Each container holds at minimum one video track and, most likely, one audio track. When you watch a movie online, your video player (most likely Flash) decodes both the audio and video and sends the information to your screen and speakers.
Why does this matter? Well, because the process of decoding what’s inside the video container file varies. To know how to decode a movie, the player (which is your web browser in the case of HTML5 video) has to know which codec the movie was encoded with.
When it comes to web video there are two codecs to worry about: H.264 and Theora.
There’s a huge debate right now among web developers, browser makers and just about everyone else as to which codec is right for the web. We believe that a free, open codec without patent and licensing restrictions is the best solution for the web. Sadly, neither codec exactly fulfills that dream, so for now, let’s just skip the whole argument and be practical — we’re going to use both codecs.
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Codec support by browser/platform:     Firefox     Opera     Chrome     Safari     IE 9     iPhone     Android
Ogg Theora
H.264
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The HTML5 Code
Here’s how to actually embed your videos. First, we encode video in both .ogv and .mp4 containers. Encoding video is beyond the scope of this article, so instead we suggest you check out Mark Pilgrim’s online book Dive Into HTML5, which has a whole chapter devoted to understanding video encoding. Pilgrim’s encoding suggestions use free software to get the job done, and in the end you’ll have two files — one .mp4 and one .ogv.
Now it’s time to unleash those movies in pure HTML glory. Here’s the code:
view source
print?
1    <video width="560" height="340" controls>
2      <source src="path/to/myvideo.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
3    <source src="path/to/myvideo.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
4    </video>
Yes, that’s it. What we’ve done here is use the <video> tag to specify the dimensions of our video, and to denote that we want to use the browser’s default controls. Then, within the video tag, we’ve added two <source> elements which link to our video files.
The “type” attribute of the <source> tag helps the browser understand which file it should load. It’s a bit of an ugly chunk of code that needs to specify the container format, the video codec and the audio codec.
In this case we’ve assumed standard .ogv and baseline encoded H.264 video as per Pilgrim’s tutorial. See the WHATWG wiki for more information on which video types you can specify.
And there you have it — native web video, no plugins required.
Dealing With Everyone Else
What about IE7, IE8 and older versions of just about any other browser? Well, for those users, we’ll fall back on Flash. To do that, we just use an <embed> tag within our video tag:
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1    <video width="560" height="340" controls>
2      <source src="path/to/myvideo.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
3    <source src="path/to/myvideo.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
4      <object width="640" height="384" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
5            data="path/to/swf/player.swf?image=placeholder.jpg&file=path/to/myvideo.mp4">
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Conclusion
Embedding HTML5 video isn’t significantly more difficult than using Flash, especially if you’ve been using H.264 video files in your Flash player — which is exactly what YouTube has done with its HTML5 beta.
While we’re concerned about the licensing and patent requirements of H.264, it isn’t hard to notice that if you skip Theora and make all non-H.264 fall back to Flash, you’ve still saved yourself a considerable encoding headache. In fact, that’s probably the best practical argument against Mozilla and Opera’s refusal to support H.264.
If you’d like to use some of the more advanced aspects of HTML5 video, be sure to check the SublimeVideo player, which offers very nice JavaScript-powered set of custom controls. Also be sure to have a look at Video for Everybody, which makes for more complex code but handles just about every use case you could imagine. And there’s a handy Video for Everybody WordPress plugin as well.
http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

Removing client's ability to use play/pause button

Hi all
I am keen to use Presenter to put together a language listening test for some clients. My clients want their students to not be able to pause the presentation so, say, they can't pause, translate word, pause, translate word and so on. In order to do this, I need to remove or lock the Pause/Play button that appears in the skin of a Presenter module.
I realise I can completely remove the Player bar by opening up the vconfig.xml file and changing the value next to <uishow name="playbar"> to false. This is a quick and dirty solution and may do the trick. However, I would like the students to still be able to see the time count down for each slide in the player bar. Why? Well, because my clients want their students to listen to an audio track, receive one minute's thinking time and then go on to answer a question about the track. The students should know how much time they still have available. This means somehow either removing the Play/Pause button or at least locking down its functionality.
I'm not a Flash wiz (though I do have it) but I don't mind making changes to a few codes here and there. I just need to know which file/s and which code.
Your thoughts/expertise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Peta

Hi Peta,
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http://www.robrode.com/yabb/

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Someone talked about that problem on another post but I think
that problem deserve a post for it...
We have a probleme when using the pause button while
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If we hit the pause button, it completely deletes all
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If someone have a long text to read for a slide he cannot
take a break and think if everything is ok. Our clients are
disappointed and calls this function.
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Thank

Hi Edji, I could not agree more. We reported this to Adobe
months ago and it has been acknowledged, but no information will be
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had to deal with when suddenly the pause button deletes all
previous slide recordings in version 7.
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not fix the issue. It is a significant bug in the program that has
caused us endless hours of support work.
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Hi BlueSplash, What tslocum10 posted should take care of your problem. If it doesn't, then Chris Campbell of the Flash Player Team has posted a thread with some information that may be helpful to you. This thread is not to be used to comment on, just for info.
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Pause/Pause button that applies to everything

My Original Post:
I have been designing a visual presentation in Flash CS5, there are a few movie clips on the stage that are set to play at a certain time/frame. The problem I am having is that I am not familiar with coding/actions. I want to have a play and a pause button so I can pause at any point (not a specified frame) and discuss with the audience. Then I want to be able to click the play button to resume from that point (wherever I paused from). I hope to get help and be able to learn from your answers. I don't know how clear my question is, but I can clarify if you need me to...
Thank you very much!
A Reply:
you can stop/play any movieclip by using the movieclip's reference:
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My Reply:
Thank you for your suggestion, I tried using this, but I may still be doing this wrong. What I am trying to do is set it up so that I can click play and have everything play and then when I hit pause it will stop until I hit play again. I want to pause randomly, it is a presentation and I will have random questions where I will need to pause it. I have been getting many errors, but I do not know meanings
I have attached a photo to hopefully back-up what I am attempting to explain.

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Iam using MediaController.MediaController.associateDisplay(MediaDisplay). when i click the ButtonXX, MediaController.click() method called threw. It is fine But MediaController Play Pause button skin does not change? it is allways show play symbol. how can i change Play Pause button skin?

Hi Chris,
Most of the content I create is deployed through a LMS which
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This means that i do not use any of the captivate toolbar
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Cheers,
Matt.

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wprice wrote:
I just found that the option called "Show Toolbar When Running" is located under VI Properties > Windows Appearance > Customize. I disabled it and it worked. Thanks!
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