Determining when a video has finished playing in a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

The following example shows how you can determine when a video has finished playing in a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 by listening for the complete event.

Full code after the jump.

The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the Adobe Flex 4 SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.
For more information on getting started with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4, see the official Adobe Flex Team blog.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/05/12/determining-when-a-video-has-finished-playing-in-a-spark-videoplayer-control-in-flex-gumbo/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_VideoPlayer_complete_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">

    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import spark.events.VideoEvent;

            private function videoPlayer_playheadUpdate(evt:VideoEvent):void {
                var now:String = new Date().toLocaleTimeString();
                debug.appendText(evt.type + " -- " + now + "\\n");
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>

    <s:HGroup horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
        <s:VideoPlayer id="videoPlayer"
                source="http://helpexamples.com/flash/video/water.flv"
                autoRewind="true"
                muted="true"
                playheadUpdate="videoPlayer_playheadUpdate(event);"
                complete="videoPlayer_playheadUpdate(event);" />
        <s:TextArea id="debug"
                editable="false"
                height="{videoPlayer.height}"
                verticalScrollPolicy="on" />
    </s:HGroup>

</s:Application>

View source is enabled in the following example.

Due to popular demand, here is the “same” example in a more ActionScript friendly format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/05/12/determining-when-a-video-has-finished-playing-in-a-spark-videoplayer-control-in-flex-gumbo/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_VideoPlayer_complete_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
        initialize="init();">

    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.core.ScrollPolicy;
            import mx.events.ResizeEvent;
            import spark.components.HGroup;
            import spark.components.TextArea;
            import spark.components.VideoPlayer;
            import spark.events.VideoEvent;

            private var videoPlayer:VideoPlayer;
            private var debug:TextArea;

            private function init():void {
                videoPlayer = new VideoPlayer();
                videoPlayer.source = "http://helpexamples.com/flash/video/water.flv";
                videoPlayer.autoRewind = true;
                videoPlayer.muted = true;
                videoPlayer.addEventListener(ResizeEvent.RESIZE, videoPlayer_resize);
                videoPlayer.addEventListener(VideoEvent.PLAYHEAD_UPDATE, videoPlayer_playheadUpdate);
                videoPlayer.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, videoPlayer_playheadUpdate);

                debug = new TextArea();
                debug.editable = false;
                debug.verticalScrollPolicy = ScrollPolicy.ON;

                var hGr:HGroup = new HGroup();
                hGr.horizontalCenter = 0;
                hGr.verticalCenter = 0;
                hGr.addElement(videoPlayer);
                hGr.addElement(debug);
                addElement(hGr);
            }

            private function videoPlayer_resize(evt:ResizeEvent):void {
                debug.height = videoPlayer.height;
            }

            private function videoPlayer_playheadUpdate(evt:VideoEvent):void {
                var now:String = new Date().toLocaleTimeString();
                debug.appendText(evt.type + " -- " + now + "\\n");
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>

</s:Application>

This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex 4 SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex 4 SDK.