Hi - just a quick question regarding the ‘seek’ function in AS3.
I have a flash app containing a video file with several buttons to jump the playhead to individual chapters within the video.I have created a function that constantly checks the video’s playheadTime (on enterframe), and then highlights the correct chapter button accordingly. I am then using a ‘seek’ command to jump the playhead to the correct point (in seconds) within the video timeline when a user clicks on one of the chapter buttons.
This all works fine locally but when working with streaming video i hit a couple of issues. Firstly, the playhead delays for at least a second before seeking to the correct point when the user highlights a chapter button. Secondly, and slightly more seriously, if the user clicks rapidly through the chapter buttons the seek queries seem to queue (meaning that a new seek does not cancel out any previous/ongoing seek requests), as such the delay accumulates with each successive click until it becomes pretty much unusable.
I am pretty new to flash and to scripting in general, i wondered whether anyone could suggest a solution to this? Is there, for example, a way to cancel all current seek commands before a new one is executed?
Thanks in advance, Michael
