Mobile Me(dia)

Week 9 - Flash Lite

Flash Lite Introduction

1. Open Flash CS3 (Professional)
2. New File, Flash File (Mobile)
3. Choose Flash 3 device, set Player Version to Flash Lite 3.0, ActionScript 2.0, Standalone Player
4. Click "Create"
5. This opens up Flash with the settins for publishing to that device (any Flash Lite 3 phone
6. In the Tools panel, select the "T" for text and click on the workspace. Type in "Hello World".
7. Make sure in the properties panel that it is "Static Text"
8. Under "Control" select "Test Movie" and it will open in the emulator portion of the Device Central application.
9. Following that, back in the Flash program you can publish and send it to your phone for testing

Flash Lite Video Player

• Create a Flash document as described above.
• In the Library panel, select "New Video", leave it's default name and make sure "Video (ActionScript-controlled)" is selected. Don't select Bundle source in SWF since we are going to loading from the network.
• Drag the new item into your workspace and position it where you would like.
• Select it and in the properties panel give it an instance name such as "test_video" (if you want it to work out of the box with the actionscript we are using below).
• Create a new layer and select the actions panel
• In that panel, paste in the below actionscript code which is commented.
• Following that, test and publish as above...

stop(); // Stop the animation on this frame

// fscommand2 function allows lower level access to the device
// SetSoftKeys sets the softkey of the device to be used by flash
// http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashlite/2/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000353.html
// All of the fscommand2 possibilities:
// http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashlite/2/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000353.html
fscommand2("SetSoftKeys", "", "Exit");
// A good example:
// http://www.metah.ch/blog/2006/08/23/meeting-fscommand2-with-flash-lite-20/

// Objects for opening the video stream
var ncVideo:NetConnection ;
var ns:NetStream;

// A variable for checking the playback progress
var check:Number;


// Object with onKeyDown function to test the softkey pressed
var tmpObj:Object = {};
tmpObj.onKeyDown = function():Void{
	if (Key.getCode() == ExtendedKey.SOFT2) {
          fscommand2("Quit");
          return;  
	}

	// Get the actual key pressed, chr turns it from ASCII to a number
	var index:Number = chr(Key.getCode());    
	// Make sure it is a number and in the range we want
	if(!isNaN(index) && (index >= 1 && i <= 2)){
		// 0 to 1
    	index = index - 1;
		// Call the playVideo function
    	playVideo(index);      
	}
	
	if(!check)clearInterval(check);
	    check = setInterval(getTimeInfo, 300, ns, video_txt);
}
Key.addListener(tmpObj); // Tell flash to call our tmpObj.onKeyDown function


// Here is our playVideo function
function playVideo(video_index:Number):Void
{
    
	// Give the path to the video based on the passed in video_index
	if (video_index == 0)
	{
		// An FLV video which uses NetConnection and NetStream
		
		// Initialize the NetConnection object if it isn't already
		if(!ncVideo)
		{
    		ncVideo  = new NetConnection();
    		ncVideo.connect(null);        
		}
	
		// Initialize the NetStream object if it isn't already
		if(!ns){    
    		ns = new NetStream(ncVideo);  
		}   

		ns.play("http://openvlog.mobvcasting.com:80/posts/attachment_1153009234_348.3gp.flv");
	    test_video.attachVideo(ns); // Tell our video object to play that video
	}
	else 
	{
		// A 3GP video, doesn't uses NetConnection or NetStream, just the player object
	
		// Don't use netstream and netconnection for 3gp/mp4 or non-flv content
		test_video.play("http://openvlog.mobvcasting.com:80/posts/attachment_1153009234_348.3gp");
	}
	//test_video.play("http://openvlog.mobvcasting.com/posts/attachment_1186624834_963.3gp.flv");
}

function getTimeInfo(ns:NetStream, txt:TextField):Void{ 
     txt.text = "Playing video: " + Math.round(ns.time);     
 }