Encorporating a big "play button" and "initial frame" at the beginning

[wackytrixxie]

Hey, great skin!

I had one question. I want to put a nice big play now into the main screen area and have the option to define an initial image. At first glance in the fla I am a bit at a loss how to begin. Any tips?

[wackytrixxie]

I managed a not so pretty hack to add a play button and an initial screen.
I simply added a beginning frame to the main flash with those graphics and set the xml to autoplay in frame 2.

Not the greatest solution, but works how I want it to. Unfortunately, now I can't figure out how to get back to that initial frame once the flv has finished playing. so I get my big play button and a freeze frame.

I could fake the big youtube like button in the flv no problem, but when I tried to add to the hit space of the play movie clip, it threw off the other elements in the bar.

Any thoughts on a better idea?

[Adrian]

Hi,
In the VPlayer.as file you have a method like:

	private function FLVCtrl_OnFLVComplete() {
	}

here you could call the script to return to the firts frame:

	private function FLVCtrl_OnFLVComplete() {
_root.gotoAndStop(1);
	}

[wackytrixxie]

You'd laugh, I had tried that, but for some reason it didn't work so I was a bit stumped... Turned out I was editing the wrong version of the vplayer.as (I made an extra copy so I had the original folder to look at as I modified). And, modified that one instead of the file my fla was looking at.

Thanks again!