Detect is a SWF is playing or stopped?

Is there a way to determine is a timeline is playing or stopped?

Say I have a SWF being loaded in. In that sub SWF there are several stops on the timeline animation. Is there a way to detect if that sub SWF is playing or if it’s stopped? Without dispatching an event?

I’m not sure but maybe the Signals would be a viable solution for you

why do you not want to use events? You’re otherwise going to have to test a boolean value every frame which is totally uncool…

MSFX said
why do you not want to use events? You’re otherwise going to have to test a boolean value every frame which is totally uncool…

what am I talking about?! Ignore me.

You could use a callback function which is fired everytime the timeline stops… so something like this should do it… this is also actually far faster than using events too

// loaded swf
public var callbackFunction:Function;

// la la la

stop();
callbackFunction();

//main swf

loadedSwf.callbackFunction = cb;

function cb() {trace("loaded swf stopped"}

my guess is he has no control on the loaded swf.

you could monitor frame changes but it would work with timeline based animations only

Turns out FP11 has a new value you can test isPlaying(). It works, but it’s a pain in the A$$ to publish to FP11 and you can’t test it in the IDE flash player. Bummer.

I think I’ll give the kirupa sinoclar method a try.

I don’t want to dispatch an event because in the sub loaded swf is going to have a lot of stops and writing stop() is much easier than dispatch event.

And it’s more universally compatible (or so I’m thinking).

Thank you everyone for your help! This is the smartest, best, Flash community on the planet.

AIR3 .0 – MovieClip.isPlaying

New MovieClip property
A new MovieClip.isPlaying property returns the MovieClip’s current playing state.