AW: is there a generic handler for the player status?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Bonsoir Eric,
thank you for your approach, nice to know ;)
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Eric Chatonet
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 15:39
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: is there a generic handler for the player status?
> 
> Bonjour Tiemo,
> 
> AFAIK no.
> 
> But for fun (and it will sure lean up your code :-):
> 
> In each player, put:
> 
> local lPlayerStatus
> ----------------------------------------
> on playStarted
>    put char 5 to -1 of the params into lPlayerStatus
> end playStarted
> ----------------------------------------
> on playPaused
>    put char 5 to -1 of the params into lPlayerStatus
> end playPaused
> ----------------------------------------
> on playStopped
>    put char 5 to -1 of the params into lPlayerStatus
> end playStopped
> ----------------------------------------
> on PlayerCurStatus
>    return lPlayerStatus
> end PlayerCurStatus
> 
> And in the card or the stack script:
> 
> function PlayerStatus pPlayer
>    call "PlayerCurStatus" of pPlayer
>    return the result
> end PlayerStatus
> 
> Now you can use the PlayerStatus function with a param that is the
> long name of any player to know its status:
> empty: the user did not pay attention yet to the player
> Started: the player is running
> Paused: the player is paused
> Stopped: the player has reached its end
> 
> Example:
> 
> switch PlayerStatus(the long name of player "Player1")
>    case "Started"
>    <statements>
>    break
>    case "Paused"
>    <statements>
>    break
>    case "Stopped"
>    <statements>
>    break
>    default -- empty
>    <statements>
> end switch
> 
> In this code, one another interesting thing is that it uses the call
> command to bypass the message hierarchy and, in addition, uses a
> handler that fakes a function by returning a value.
> As I said, just for fun and knowledge ;-)
> 
> Le 3 juin 08 à 14:42, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit :
> 
> > to ask for the player status there are the handlers playStarted,
> > playStopped
> > and playPaused.
> >
> > Is the also a generic handler with the status as a param to ask for
> > the
> > status? (just to lean up my code a bit?)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tiemo
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet.
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