Youtube & flash

programming flash
1

Hello,

I’m working on a project and I want to load Youtube movies into Flash. This is no problem and works fine, accept i’m running into a bug (quite an irritating one :wink:

I create a playlist from XML and have linked different Youtube-movies linked on the buttons i dynamicly create. When i press a button for the first time it loads the right movie but when i click on a different button, the same movie gets loaded (so the first movie always loads again).

Anyone who has a solution for this?

This is the AS:



System.security.allowDomain("http://www.youtube.com");
System.security.loadPolicyFile("http://www.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml");

cliparray = [];

var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
my_xml.load("xml/wall_fame.xml");
my_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) {
		fameWall = my_xml.firstChild.childNodes;
		total = fameWall.length;
		for (i=0; i<fameWall.length; i++) {
			movHolder = itemHolder.attachMovie("myClip", "clip"+i, i);
			movHolder._x = 0;
			movHolder._y = (i*60);
			movHolder.itemTitel.htmlText = fameWall*.childNodes[0].firstChild;
			movHolder.itemAuteur.htmlText = fameWall*.childNodes[1].firstChild;
			movHolder.link = fameWall*.childNodes[4].attributes.link;
			cliparray.push(movHolder);
		}
		trees();
	}
};



var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();

loader.addListener(listener);


listener.onLoadComplete = function(mc:MovieClip) {
	mc._xscale = 100;
	mc._yscale = 100;
};



function trees() {
	for (r=0; r<cliparray.length; r++) {
		cliparray[r].onRelease = function() {
			stopAllSounds();	
			removeMovieClip(loader)
			loader.loadClip(this.link, mc);
			trace(this.link);
		};
		cliparray[r].onRollOver = function() {
			this.itemBg.colorTo(0xcccccc,0.5,"linear");
		};
		cliparray[r].onRollOut = function() {
			this.itemBg.colorTo(normal,0.5,"linear");
		};
	}
}

Thanks!

2

you could do the simple thing and stick the links into an array then pull the linkarray when you press a button

I don’t across it that often that the first item is repeated its usually the last when a for loop goes wrong

3

But how can I access the different arrays from the linkarray? I’ve tried it but can’t get it to work properly.


var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
my_xml.load("xml/wall_fame.xml");
my_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) {
		fameWall = my_xml.firstChild.childNodes;
		total = fameWall.length;
		for (i=0; i<fameWall.length; i++) {
			movHolder = itemHolder.attachMovie("myClip", "clip"+i, i);
			movHolder._x = 0;
			movHolder._y = (i*60);
			movHolder.itemTitel.htmlText = fameWall*.childNodes[0].firstChild;
			movHolder.itemAuteur.htmlText = fameWall*.childNodes[1].firstChild;
			movHolder.link = fameWall*.childNodes[4].attributes.link;
			cliparray.push(movHolder);
			linkarray.push(movHolder.link);
		}
		trees();
	}
};
4

Actually its not the problem getting the right link from the button, but playing the right Youtube movie when I click it. The link is good, but he keeps replaying the same movie. Need to empty the movie/ delete Clip or something like that to ‘refresh’ my mc and put a new movie in there.

anyone?

5

what are you using to play the video? netstream?

movHolder.link vs linkArray* = xmlnode…

then

button

video element.play(linkArray[get-number-of-button])

6

well one neat trick I use when linking my buttons to arrays are simple

for (r=0; r<cliparray.length; r++) {
		clipbutton[r].onRelease = function() {
			stopAllSounds();	
			MovieClipLoderthing.load(linkArray[r]);
}

but this assumes you have the same amount of buttons per links

so when button0 is clicked the moviecliploader load link[0]

7

Well the problem is not getting the right link, thats working fine, it is actually showing the right Youtube clip what is the problem. He keeps repeating the same clip (doesn’t seem to overwrite the first one) You can see a sample here.

If you click a link he loads a movie, when you click another he loads the same movie, when you refresh and click the other link he loads that movie.

Thanks

8

you need to remove the movieClip instance then load another one

to be honest I think there is something wrong with your xml file

9

Any idea how I can remove the movieClip instance?
My xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<walloffame>
	<item>
	  <titel>1</titel>
	  <auteur>Bob Lijndienst</auteur>
	  <omschrijving>Video van Rotterdams nachtleven.</omschrijving>
	  <image img="jpg/image2.jpg" />
	  <youtube link="http://www.youtube.com/v/GvJhJQSGBLs" />
	</item>
	
	<item>
	  <titel>2</titel>
	  <auteur>Bob Lijndienst</auteur>
	  <omschrijving>Video van Rotterdams nachtleven.</omschrijving>
	  <image img="jpg/image3.jpg" />
	  <youtube link="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6ycbGPQBj8" />
	</item>
	
</walloffame>
10

instance.removeMovieClip();