Cue points - listener vs event?

I'm a little over my head here...
I have a movie that loads an external flv. In the flv I have
a cue point at
the very end to mark the end of the movie. Once the flv is
done playing,
I'd like to advance to the next frame.
There are a few posts here and there and I'm not sure if I'd
be better
testing for the end cue point with a listener or if it could
be an event.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm using Flash 8 Pro/PC

David,
>> There are a few posts here and there and I'm not
sure
>> if I'd be better testing for the end cue point with
a
>> listener or if it could be an event.
Cue points are events, no matter how you handle them. There
are three
basic categeories of object functionality: properties
(characteristics),
methods (things the object can do), and events (things the
object can react
to). An "end" cuepoint is something your video object reacts
to, so it's an
event. How you *handle* (that is, manage) this event depends
on how the
object was written. Some objects, such as Button, TextField,
and MovieClip
instances require event handlers. Some require event
listeners.
I blogged on this just the other day, so for what it's
worth, take a
look here ...
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/event-handlers-listeners
Hope that helps.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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I usually start off solving problems with the livedocs, as I
recommend for anyone. The following link will take you to the
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http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context= LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002561.html
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OK, here is a working NetStream cue point:
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
video_screen.attachVideo(ns);
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ns.play("my_video.flv");
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import flash.events.*;
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function onCuePoint(infoObject:Object):void
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for (var propName:String in infoObject) {
if (propName != "Run")
RunCuePoint.visible=true
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trace("parameters =");
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I keep getting error messages and don't know why?
I am trying to listen for cue point. What am I doing wrong?
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var myVideo:Video = new Video();
addChild(myVideo);
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
myVideo.attachNetStream(ns);
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ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
ns.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
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What error do you get?
Yes, you should have NET_STATUS on both NetConnection and NetStream.
Also I don't see that you assign client to anything - connection and stream's events/methods are invoked on client. Especially you need it for listening for cue points. So, at least you need a line:
ns.client = this;
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Im having trouble with my video game project for my action script 3 class at school. Here is what i did, i made a game called Tailgate toss up. I filmed my character and rendered it in Adobe Premiere. I than brought my .mov file into After Effects and I put event-based cue points-
my first cue point at 0:00:03:13 called "loop"
my second cue point at 00:00:03:27 called "draw"
my third cue point at 00:00:05:24 called "bang"
my fourth cue point at 00:00:13:29 called "dead"
my fifth cue point at 00:00:14:29 called "You Lose"
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///first frame:
start_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);
function startGame(event:MouseEvent){
gotoAndStop(2);
SoundMixer.stopAll()
stop();
///second frame:
stop();
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var hitHim:Boolean = false;
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vConnection.connect(null);
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var client:Object = new Object();
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vStream.client = client;
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draw_mc.visible = false;
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setChildIndex(draw_mc, numChildren - 1);
target_mc.visible = true;
draw_mc.visible = true;
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draw_mc.visible = false;
target_mc.visible = false;
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vStream.seek(15);
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gotoAndStop(3);
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throw_bottle.play();
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///my third and last frame
playAgain_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playAgain);
function playAgain(event:MouseEvent){
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SoundMixer.stopAll()
stop();
When I have no audio it works perfectly, no problems. When I bring audio in i re-render it as a .mov file and bring it back into After Effects and add the cue points to it. Than i re-render it out again as a flv file. When i bring it into my flash project it will work when the looping variable does just one loop and my target will appear so you can click on it or not. But when the looping variable makes it loop 2 to 10 times it skips over the catching (the part of the clip if you clip the button) and goes directly to the dropping of the can, not giving you the option of clicking the button. So basically it skips the "draw" or second cue point of my game and goes to "You Lose" cue point.
Any suggestions?

Hi,
The latest audio driver for your machine is on the following link.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59501-60000/sp59649.exe
Regards,
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I have an flv playing back from component in a nested
timeline (an actionscript 2 proj) and I want at the end of the
video to gotoAndPlay the label"vidend" in the this timeline. I
embedded the the event cue point called "end" on the last frame of
video when I encoded it in my new CS3.I placed the following on the
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I have an flv playing back from component in a nested
timeline (an actionscript 2 proj) and I want at the end of the
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embedded the the event cue point called "end" on the last frame of
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first frame of the nested timeline... The video plays fine but does
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info on navigation events but this is the result of everything I
could find on the adobe site and I still not there.
I'd really appreciate any direction anyone can give me.
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