Make button invisible when flv starts again

Question

Hi,
Please, can some one help me and tell me how to have a button
instance become invisible when the play button from the skin.swf
file is clicked? There may be another way to acomplish what I am
trying to do.
I have a Flash 8 file with a FLVPlayback component pointing
to a FLV file. I am using an external skin for the controls. When
the video is finished I have it displaying a button, but if the
person wants to start the video again the button needs to become
invisible again. I am assuming I need to create an actionscript
that says if the video is playing (at all ) the button is
invisible. But how?.. is the big question for me.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
thepopguy

Answer 1

This is possible. You need actionscript to check the status
of the video, if it is playing then the button goes invisible. This
is called an event listener. You need to give the component an
instance name - like vid. Then use this code on the frame:
//listen for movie to play
var vidList:Object = new Object();
vidList.playing = function(){
button1._visible = false;
//any other actions go here
vid.addEventListener ("playing",vidList);
stop;
//listen for movie to stop
var vidList2:Object = new Object();
vidList2.stopped = function(){
button1._visible = true;
//any other actions go here
vid.addEventListener ("stopped",vidList2);
stop;
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This code will actually listen for the movie to play, and
then it will make the button invisible. It also listens for the
movie to stop, and it make it visible again.
Sample:
http://www.johnkalnin.com/flashhelp/Vid-isPlaying-inv.html
Flash 8 source:
http://www.johnkalnin.com/flashhelp/Vid-isPlaying-inv.fla