callbacks only work first time a player is used - workaround

[Toma Tasovac]

Eric,

this is already in Bugzilla (#112), Tuviah fixed it at some point, but  
then had to "un-fix" it because it broke something else...

T.

On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Eric Peden wrote:

> I just filed a bug report for this, but thought I'd send it to the list
> as well in case anyone else had run into the problem.
>
> Callbacks set on a player are only called the first time the movie is
> played. I ran into the problem earlier today, and identified a
> workaround: setting the callbacks property allows callbacks to be sent
> again. However, if the movie is replayed, they stop again, so the fix  
> is
> to reset them every chance you get:
>
>  -- in the player's script
>  on [playPaused, playStopped, or currentTimeChanged]
>    set the callbacks of me to the callbacks of me
>  end
>
> You also have to perform this "reset" whenever you set the currentTime
> of a player.
>
> The problem was first described here:
>
>  http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-July/018539.html
>
> and the Bugzilla entry is:
>
>   
> http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? 
> id=1448
>
> The poster linked to above was running OS X, but the problem has shown
> up for us on Windows, too. Anyone else run into this? Any suggestions
> for a more elegant way to reset the callbacks without intercepting a
> bunch of messages?
>
> -- 
> eric
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