R – FLV: How to stop a VideoPlayer from scaling along with its containing MovieClip

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I'm creating a VideoPlayer object in a swf and that works well. I'm sizing it using autoSize and that's working fine too. I'm trying to make it so that when the containing swf gets larger the video stays at the same size. The swf is actually loaded from another flash movie which is where the resizing happens. Is there a setting in the VideoPlayer class or in the movieclip I can set to make it stop scaling along with the movieclip?

Thanks!

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Not that I've tested it, but maybe you could add a handler for Event.RESIZE in the swf which contains the video player. Then do something like this:

private function onResize(e:Event):void
{
  childClip.scaleX = (scaleX != 0) ? (1 / scaleX) : 0;
  childClip.scaleY = (scaleY != 0) ? (1 / scaleY) : 0;
}

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Destroy a flash object created with SWFObject

swfobject.removeSWF("myVideoPlayer");

Edit: this kills off the original <DIV> that you used to create the swfobject in the first place.

So if you need to recreate the Flash again you'll need to insert a new placeholder <DIV>.

<!-- you'll need to wrap the 'myVideoPlayer' DIV in another DIV -->
<div id="videoPlayerWrapper">
   <div id="myVideoPlayer"/>
   <a href="#" class="close">Close Player</a>
</div>

swfobject.removeSWF("myVideoPlayer");
$('#videoPlayerWrapper').prepend("<div id='myVideoPlayer'></div>");

R – How to dynamically load a Movieclip in Flash CS4 and have it share information with a framework

To load the the swf files you use the Loader class. Then to pass variables to the loaded swf file you have to create a setter in the documentclass of that swf file. Here's an simple example:

//This is inside the loaded swf document class
//____________________________________________________________

public function set testVar(newValue:String):void{
    trace(newValue); //This is a setter function which you use to pass parameters into.
}

public function get testVar():String{
   //Here you pass back a variable you want to be able to fetch in the mian class
   return "";
}

//This is inside of the document class
//___________________________________________________________

public function Main():void{
    var loader:Loader = new Loader(); //Create the loader
    loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete);
    loader.load(new URLRequest(fileURL)); //Load the file
}

private function loadingComplete(event:Event):void{ 
    var loadedSwf = event.target.content; //Get the loaded swf
    addChild(loadedSwf); //Add it to the display list if you want to display it
    loadedSwf.testVar = "I'm testing!"; //This is how you use the setter function
}

As you can see, you load the file, instansiate it and then pass a variable into it. Now to the other part how to pass variables back I would probably use an event to pass it back. So you have an event listener in the main document class which listens for an event in the loaded swf. When an event is dispatchen the main class either does something or retrives a variable or sets a variable in the loaded swf with the getter or setter function. How to set up a event dispatch is pretty straight forward.

I hope I made some sense. Otherwise just comment and I'll try to explain.

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Destroy a flash object created with SWFObject

R – How to dynamically load a Movieclip in Flash CS4 and have it share information with a framework

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