[Xerte] Xerte3: dispatchSynchEvents does not work

Mon Jun 28 15:39:14 BST 2010

>From some blog:

A video class cannot listen for it's own MetaData event. Try moving
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: dispatchSynchEvents does not work
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:34:25 +0100
> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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> The problem is the metaData received event is not always firing.
> It seems to always fire in the Flash Player, most of the time in IE and is very
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> By the same token, getting videoDisplay.totalTime seems to
> follow the same sort of problems, reporting -1 when it fails. The upshot of all
> this is that dragging the slider doesn’t show the time accurately in the
> tooltip, nor can it navigate to the right spot in the video by dragging the
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> This is a real pain: any flex coders aware of this issue and how
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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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> Sent: 28 June 2010 13:10
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> To: Xerte discussion list
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: dispatchSynchEvents does not work
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> Likewise. Now I can replicate
> the problem I can see what’s going on,
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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
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> Sent: 28 June 2010 13:09
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> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: dispatchSynchEvents does not work
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> I run it locally.
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> I have version 10,1,53,64
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> On 28.06.2010, at 14:00, Julian
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> Is this locally, or when
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Huppertz
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> Sent: 28 June 2010 12:45
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> Subject: Re: [Xerte]
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> On windows neither IE nor Firefox
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> preview, but it also vanished from there.
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> On 28.06.2010, at 13:16, Julian
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> Hmm. It adds 250k to the
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> Back to your original
> problem: the controller does not display – is this only in firefox? I seem to
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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> Sent: 28 June 2010 11:56
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3:
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> Best of both worlds: this is
> the spark video player object, rather than the mx.controls.VideoDisplay. What I
> really like about flex is every time I come across a problem, someone has already
> beaten me to a solution… I’ll work it in…
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Huppertz
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> Sent: 25 June 2010 19:47
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> Subject: Re: [Xerte]
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> I'm really a fan of modular
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> Am 25.06.2010 um 11:39 schrieb
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> create whatever controllers were appropriate? Then VideoDisplayIcon could
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> could be usd to create controllers for use on Sound and Video icons? That migt
> be quite good,as there would be only one controller, rather than very similar
> code in the Sound and Video icons to provide the controller functionality..?
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Peter Huppertz
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> Sent: Thu 24/06/2010 15:39
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> Subject: Re: [Xerte]
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> I had a look at the source. So,
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> every frame while the video plays, shouldn't it? But nothing happens at the
> moment ... I double checked the spelling of synch ...
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> On 24.06.2010, at 15:47, Julian Tenney
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> see the source:
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> http://code.google.com/p/xerte3/source/browse/trunk/xerte3/src/org/xerte/media/VideoDisplayIcon.as
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> It's 'synch'. You can see how we can wrap the
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Peter Huppertz
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> Sent: Thu 24/06/2010 13:59
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> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte3:
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> as a workaround
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