Waiting until a player is loaded

[Phil Davis]

Jackie,

Have you tried setting the filename of the players to empty between movies? I've 
seen that solve similar problems.

Phil Davis


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> I am trying to load a series of movies into players in a loop, in order 
> to make thumbnails. Inside a repeat loop, I set each player's filename, 
> then take a snapshot of it to get a thumbnail image. This works just 
> fine when I step through it in the debugger.
> 
> However, if I let the loop run at its natural speed, I get a bunch of 
> blank snapshots, either because the content isn't fully loaded before 
> the script continues, or because the screen isn't refreshing (I can't 
> tell which.) I need a way to force the loop to wait until the player is 
> fully loaded, and also something that will refresh the screen so that a 
> snapshot has something to take a picture of.
> 
> I have tried locking and unlocking the screen to force a redraw, tried 
> "go this card" to force a redraw, tried waiting various amounts of time 
> both with and without messages, tried "set the currentTime of player 1 
> to the duration of player 1" to force a full load, and everything else I 
> can think of. In no case does the player content display. I am not sure 
> if this is because the screen simply isn't redrawing (likely), or 
> because the content isn't fully loading before the script continues 
> (possible.)
> 
> Anyone know how to solve this?
>