April 2006
Beginner
544 pages
14h 51m
English
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18.4. Customizing the FLVPlayback Component
Problem
You want to customize the look and feel of the FLVPlayback component.
Solution
Use the custom UI components that ship with Flash Professional 8.
Discussion
If the 32 skins that ship with Flash Professional 8 don’t suit your particular preferences for playback controls, you can pick and choose from a variety of components in the FLV Playback Custom UI folder of the Components panel to build your own user interface for the FLVPlayback component. Using ActionScript, each aspect of the FLVPlayback component’s user interface can be set to the appropriate custom UI component.
To build a simple playback interface consisting of a play/pause toggle button and a volume bar, perform the following steps. In the process, you’ll learn how other playback controls can be exposed and set in ActionScript.
Create a new Flash document in Flash Professional 8.
Rename Layer 1 to cfp, short for component FLVPlayback.
Open the Components panel (Window → Components), and from the FLV Playback—Player 8 folder, drag an instance of the FLVPlayback component to the stage.
With the instance selected, open the Property inspector and name the instance
cfp. In the Parameters tab, double-click the skin value and choose None in the Select Skin dialog box. You do not need to use a skin .swf file for this example, because you will build your own UI.Add a new layer named Controls. On frame 1 of this layer, drag an instance of the
PlayPauseButtonandVolumeBarcomponents from ...
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