[Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Jun 30 17:47:36 BST 2010


I fixed the styles thing - it was upgrading to Zinc .21

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 30 June 2010 16:33
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon

NO, you're right, you need to recompile it as mine have also stopped
working > I was sure I had checked that,

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon

No, it ought to load previous versions OK... try it and see...

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 30 June 2010 16:26
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon

It seems to be the stylesheet again. Guess I have to compile it with
Flex 4.1 now?!


On 30.06.2010, at 17:21, Julian Tenney wrote:

> Your code may be assuming myIcon.videoDisplay: now you can simply
> address myIcon.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tenney Julian 
> Sent: 30 June 2010 16:19
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon
> 
> Can you make a new piece with just a video object in there and it
works
> OK?
> 
> The old synch events stuff might be breaking it? The only properties
you
> should need are the x / y and the .controls and .source.
> 
> There is no 'synch' event to listen for anymore, as you can listen for
> 'progress'.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
> Huppertz
> Sent: 30 June 2010 16:14
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> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon
> 
> Thanks for implementing this. I upgraded to the last svn,
unfortunately
> my piece does not compile anymore. I guess the only reason for that
will
> be the change of the VideoIcon. In some scripts I refer to
> videoIcon.videoDisplay, I think I have to change this. Any other
> thoughts why it stops compiling?
> 
> 
> On 30.06.2010, at 17:01, Julian Tenney wrote:
> 
>> OK, now VideoDisplayIcon extends VideoDisplay. You can still turn the
>> controls on or off using the .controls property, and you can also get
> at
>> all the native events using the usual event handlers directly on the
>> icon. Think of the icon as the VideoDisplay object with controls,
> rather
>> than the composite object before.
>> 
>> Let me know if there are any hiccups,
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
> Tenney
>> Sent: 30 June 2010 12:13
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>> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon
>> 
>> Yes, but that's going to take a bit more work.
>> 
>> I've made it so that you can now use the .controls property [defaults
> to
>> true] to turn off the controls if you want to, and then make your own
>> controls.
>> 
>> I'd still like to make it easier to get at the all the native events
>> though...
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
>> Huppertz
>> Sent: 30 June 2010 11:57
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon
>> 
>> I think you had once the idea to have the raw VideoIcon and an extra
>> ControlbarIcon. That would be perfect for me. Than you have the free
>> choice where to put it (above the video, below, over). Ideally the
>> ControlbarIcon would have properties like pauseButton:
>> "media/myPauseButton", pauseButtonOver: "media/myPauseButtonOver".
The
>> question remains on how to tie VideoIcon and ControlbarIcon together.
>> I'm not a big fan of giving IconIDs to all the icons. Perhaps it
would
>> be possible that the ControlbarIcon detects if it has a parent
>> VideoIcon?
>> 
>> On 30.06.2010, at 12:48, Julian Tenney wrote:
>> 
>>> I was going to add a .controls property so you could turn them off
by
>>> setting it to false; alternatively you could have a different icon,
>>> which inherited directly from VideoDisplay so you can access all the
>>> events as you wanted. There would be two icons:
>>> 
>>> VideoIcon //the raw video display object
>>> VideoDisplayIcon //what we have now with the controls
>>> 
>>> What do you think?
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
>>> Huppertz
>>> Sent: 30 June 2010 11:45
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte3: Hide Play/Stop/Tracker on VideoIcon
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure what the status of the VideoIcon is. I think you
thought
>>> about changing it ... For some of my videos it would be nice to have
>> the
>>> possibility to hide the controlbar completely. At the moment I think
>>> it's not possible because the buttons and the tracker are declared
>>> private. Perhaps it would make sense to create a new public
>>> (Sprite/Shape/Canvas?) controlbar as a parent of the buttons and the
>>> tracker and which could either turned on and off by a property or at
>>> least using .getChildAt(1).visible = false.
>>> What do you think?
>>> 
>>> Peter
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