How to Pause a Flash Movie

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If only you could customize the modal dialogue, hehe!

Works with animations as well as code. Since it’s modal, it’ll also prevent your users from interacting with the Flash movie itself.

function pause()
{
        var my_pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
        my_pj.start();
        my_pj.addPage(this);
        my_pj.send();
}

pause();

Comments

March 26, 2004

Jayson K. Hanes

Dayum!.. how interesting…. sweet idea!!
March 26, 2004

Casey Corcoran

Interesting indeed, the only thing I can add is that you can alternatively do your switch statement like so:

switch(Key.getCode()){
case 80: case 19:
pauseMovie();
break;
}

Cheers!
March 26, 2004

PiXELWiT

Great hack.
March 29, 2004

squib

but that beings up the print dialogue box (WinXP) – surely that will confuse the hell out’a users ?
April 23, 2004

yotsse

Hi,

How can I play pause my movie without the print function ???

Thanks
April 23, 2004

JesterXL

…still workin’ on that one, chief…