Listen for my Flash event in Javascript

Question

I\'m trying to build a basic video player with a playlist using the OVP Player. So far I have figured out how to feed in the new video source using ExternalInterface, but I

Answer 1

you can use SWF object project google
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

This library gives you the capability to listen events from actionscript to javascript and is very simple to use

Answer 2

In the Model.as file find add this line in with all the other imports (at the start of the file):

import flash.external.*;

Then in the end event, add this line:

ExternalInterface.call("stopedPlaying");

So that an event would look like this:

        public function endOfItem():void {
            sendEvent(EVENT_END_OF_ITEM);
            // inform JavaScript that the FLV has stopped playing
            ExternalInterface.call("stoppedPlaying");
        }

Then in your the HTML document, add this between SCRIPT tags:

function stoppedPlaying()
{
    // do something when the FLV starts playing
};

Answer 3

I think that externalInterface plugin for jQuery will make it relatively easy. If not then there's DOMEx class which looks promising. Code example from DOMEx site:

if (ExternalInterface.available) ExternalInterface.call(javaScript, "Howdy Ya'll");
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