Trying to create Large Play button on Flash CS4

Question

Hello,
I am trying to create the following: (using someone elses post from another board)
"I am wondering if there is a way to hide the FLVPlayback skin until a certain event happens. Let me explain.
I have an instance of the flvplayback component in my movie. I have the player skin set to "autohide" and "autoplay" set to false. Instead of having users click on the play button of the skin to start the movie I have incorporated a larger play button in the middle of the screen. The set back here is that when a user mouses over the movie to click on the larger play button the flvplayback skin appears as well.
I'd like to basically tell the skin "Hey don't appear on mouseover until AFTER the large play button is pressed." What code would I need for this in Actionscript 3?"
I am curious if someone can teach how to embed a regular .swf movie file into the
"example" code, which was also posted here
(http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=323702)
I have very limited coding skills and very much appreciate the assistance.
Rod

Answer 1

You are looking for the visible property I believe.
At the beginning of your code, set:
myFLVPlayer._visible = false;
to set it invisible (replacing "myFLVPlayer" with your components name ocourse)
Then, onRelease of your button, set:
myFLVPlayer._visible = true;
to make it visible again.
EDIT
I just looked at your code in the other forum, and here is your onRelease function fixed:
video_mc.video._visible = false;
video_mc.bigButton_mc.onRelease = function(){
video_mc.bigButton_mc._visible = false;
video_mc.video._visible = true;
video_mc.video.play();