Why doesn't "stop player" results in "playStopped"?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Tiemo,

Not sending the playStopped and playPaused messages might prevent  
recursion from occurring. Hiding a player object does send the  
playStopped message, which would make the recursion argument very  
weak. So, I don't know what is the reason, but I don't really care, as  
it is easy to send the message yourself. Correctly handling an  
unwanted message, such as the playStopped message when hiding a  
player, is more difficult, especially when you're unaware of it. So,  
perhaps it is better to have some messages not sent, rather than to  
have them sent unexpectedly.

When the alwaysBuffer of a player is true, it stays in memory when you  
stop the movie and even when you go to a different card. Setting the  
filename of the player to a different path, releases the memory used  
for the previous movie and loads the new movie into memory (at least,  
I think so). If the alwaysBuffer is false, the movie needs to be  
loaded each time when the card with the player object is opened.

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On 4 jun 2008, at 12:16, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think I am still missing some basics of the Rev player object. Rev  
> 2.9 I
> would like to use my own buttons as controls.
>
>
>
> When sending "start player", the video starts and I get a message
> "playStarted", OK.
>
> When the Video is finished I get the message "playStopped", OK.
>
> When sending "stop player", the video stopps, but I don't get a  
> message
> "playStopped" - Why?
>
> When using the standard player control "pause" I get a message  
> "playPaused",
> ok.
>
> When using "set the paused of player foo to true", the Video pauses  
> ok, but
> I don't get a message "playPaused" - Why?
>
>
>
> I could define my own status messages, but couldn't I use the standard
> control commands for my own? Is there really only a start and stop  
> player
> command?
>
>
>
> Additional question. In other IDEs or languages I have to open a video
> before playing and close the video after finishing, otherwise the  
> multimedia
> channel would keep open and Iwould get an "overflow" after a certain  
> amount
> of videos. Obviously Rev handles all this open and close for me. Am  
> I right
> that Rev closes the video channel after I stop the player and I  
> don't have
> to care about closing? But is this also true, when using "stop  
> player",
> without getting the "playStopped" message (see above)? Or can I  
> close the
> video for myself anyway?
>
>
>
> Thanks for any tipps and coaching
>
> Tiemo
>