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Customized actions for FLVPlayback Component

Posted: January 22nd, 2008 | Author: ruffy | Filed under: Actionscript3, Components, Events, Tutorial, WorkAround | 1 Comment »

If you need a standard flash videoplayer, then the FLVPlayback component is the right thing for you.

Just create a new FLA and drag&drop a FVLPlayback component from the components library into a movieclip in your library, export it for actionscript and compile the SWC.

All the functionallity stuff is already handled by adobe. But that's where I got stuck for quite some
time. I needed a player, that used the forwardButton and backButton for switching the videos (and not seeking forward and back).

The answer was really simple: Just override the functions once the component loaded its skin:



One Comment on “Customized actions for FLVPlayback Component”

  1. 1 Joe said at 8:05 pm on January 22nd, 2009:

    Cool.
    But do you know how to do this for the FLVPlayback AS2 Component?

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