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June 2, 2001 - Checking whether a Movie is Currently Playing

Yehuda Shiran June 2, 2001
Checking whether a Movie is Currently Playing
Tips: June 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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In some of your applications you may need to use Flash movies and JavaScript directly, without any prepackaged APIs such as FlashSound JavaScript API. You will enjoy more features, methods, and properties, but you'll have to take care of all the tiny details that are taken for granted when using FlashSound API, for example.

One of the "tiny" details is embedding the Flash object. The JavaScript file flashmoviecheck.js does exactly this, as well as other stuff. For example, it checks whether a Flash player exists (Flash plug-in or ActiveX control), and whether its version is higher than the minimum required by the application.

Use the Flash method IsPlaying() to find out if a Flash movie is playing. The syntax is:

  IsPlaying()
The method returns true if the movie is currently playing.

The following links demonstrate how to play a movie, how to rewind it, and how to find whether the movie is playing. Click the Play link and, while the movie is playing, click the Is Playing? link:

Rewind | Play | Is Playing?

Here is the code:


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="flashmoviecheck.js"></SCRIPT>
<A href="javascript://" onclick="javascript:mySwf.Rewind(); return false">Rewind</A> | 
<A href="javascript://" onclick="javascript:mySwf.Play(); return false">Play</A> | 
<A href="javascript://" onclick="javascript:alert(mySwf.IsPlaying()); return false">Is Playing?</A>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  Flash_embedSWF("opener.swf");
  var mySwf = window.document.sonify;
</SCRIPT>