I am writing a complex media player application. I decided to hide the
Player entirely, and use my own buttons instead. When I make the Player
invisible, everything stops working, as if I had deleted the Player. Is
this what the rest of you would have expected?
:)
Jon
Hi Jon,
No, it's not a bug.
As a player is designed to play movies, then it stops when it is hidden.
It's a normal behaviour: there is nothing to watch :-)
So, instead of making your player invisible, let it visible but put
it out of the card window area: set the bottomRight of player
On 6/3/05 7:38 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Jon,
No, it's not a bug.
As a player is designed to play movies, then it stops when it is hidden.
Actually, I think this only happens on Windows. On Macs, hidden players
continue to play. So it is maybe a sort-of, kind-of, partial bug. The
Hi Jacque,
As I do it usually, I verified with a QT movie before answering (Mac
OS 10.4.1 - Rev build 77):
on mouseUp
start player 1
wait 1 second with messages
hide player 1 -- then stops
end mouseUp
on mouseUp
start player 1
wait 1 second with messages
set the botRight of
On 6/3/05 11:25 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Jacque,
As I do it usually, I verified with a QT movie before answering (Mac OS
10.4.1 - Rev build 77):
Okay, I believe you. :)
I had a commercial app written in an older version of Revolution and the
Mac player worked while hidden but the
Hi Jacque,
I did not want to hurt you.
Sometimes, my bad english makes things seemingly a little bit hard...
And I found it when I read again my mail...
Do you want to excuse me?
On the other hand, I dug the question by testing if there was a
difference when the file did not have any video
On 6/3/05 12:42 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Jacque,
I did not want to hurt you.
Oh, not at all. No offense taken in the least.
Sometimes, my bad english makes things seemingly a little bit hard...
Your English is excellent, and much better than my French. I don't know
any French. :)
