Setting the full-screen control bar auto hide delay on the Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

The following example shows how you can set the full-screen control bar auto hide delay on the Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 by setting the fullScreenHideControlsDelay style.

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/2009/06/06/setting-the-full-screen-control-bar-auto-hide-delay-on-the-spark-videoplayer-control-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_VideoPlayer_fullScreenHideControlsDelay_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">

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar width="100%" cornerRadius="0">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="fullScreenHideControlsDelay:">
                <s:HSlider id="slider"
                        minimum="1000"
                        maximum="10000"
                        dataTipPrecision="0" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <s:VideoPlayer id="videoPlayer"
            source="http://helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv"
            fullScreenHideControlsDelay="{slider.value}"
            horizontalCenter="0"
            verticalCenter="0" />

</s:Application>

View source is enabled in the following example.

You can also set the fullScreenHideControlsDelay style in an external .CSS file or <Style/> block, as seen in the following example:

View MXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/06/06/setting-the-full-screen-control-bar-auto-hide-delay-on-the-spark-videoplayer-control-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_VideoPlayer_fullScreenHideControlsDelay_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:Style>
        @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";

        s|VideoPlayer {
            fullScreenHideControlsDelay: 10000;
        }
    </fx:Style>

    <s:VideoPlayer id="videoPlayer"
            source="http://helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv"
            muted="true"
            horizontalCenter="0"
            verticalCenter="0" />

</s:Application>

Or, you can set the fullScreenHideControlsDelay style using ActionScript, as seen in the following example:

View MXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/06/06/setting-the-full-screen-control-bar-auto-hide-delay-on-the-spark-videoplayer-control-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_VideoPlayer_fullScreenHideControlsDelay_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[
            private function slider_change(evt:Event):void {
                videoPlayer.setStyle("fullScreenHideControlsDelay", slider.value);
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar width="100%" cornerRadius="0">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="fullScreenHideControlsDelay:">
                <s:HSlider id="slider"
                        minimum="1000"
                        maximum="10000"
                        dataTipPrecision="0"
                        change="slider_change(event);" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <s:VideoPlayer id="videoPlayer"
            source="http://helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv"
            muted="true"
            horizontalCenter="0"
            verticalCenter="0"
            initialize="slider.value = videoPlayer.getStyle('fullScreenHideControlsDelay');" />

</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.