{"id":1159,"date":"2010-12-27T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2015-07-31T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T23:25:51","slug":"vimeo-moogaloop-actionscript-api-in-flex-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/2010\/12\/27\/vimeo-moogaloop-actionscript-api-in-flex-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo Moogaloop Actionscript API In Flex 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted created a video switcher for Vimeo<\/a> videos using Flex 4. I found my way to the Vimeo Moogaloop API page <\/a>where there seemed to be a harmless Actionscript 3 class demonstrating a Flash application. Moogaloop is the name Vimeo uses for the embedded video player.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Moogaloop player is a Flash movie that must be loaded into your Flash movie. The example on the Moogaloop API page is an example of that process. The Moogaloop player contains the API you need to interface with the video player once it is loaded.<\/p>\n

The example showed an interface, api_loadVideo(id), to load a video into the Moogaloop player. The way the example worked is that loading of the Moogaloop player requires a video to load. Then the interface suggests this api_loadVideo is how you load a second. <\/p>\n

I set up an Actionscript project in Flex Builder 4 and found the api_loadVideo(id) code was not loading videos. I posted my findings on the Vimeo api forum (see Does moogaloop.api_loadVideo( id); work in Flash example work?<\/a>) and fairly promptly got a reply to try it again where it now worked. So it appeared I hit a bug and it was fixed.<\/p>\n

I found more issues with switching videos with Moogaloop. They all centered around the video controls not maintaining a consistent state. After extended two day effort of multiple trial and error sessions, I solved most of the issues. The one issue still hanging is that the auto hide state of the player controls stays on after the first video plays. So if you load a second video, the player controls will auto hide until mouse rolls over the player. The user interface expectation of a new video being keyed for a first play is to have the player controls visible until the video plays. I added this observation to the original forum post<\/a> to see if we get some updates that make switching videos more seamless to the user.<\/p>\n

At this point I just have a Flex project for downloads.<\/p>\n