User Guide

852 Chapter 14: Properties

• #connecting indicates that a connection to the RealMedia or Windows Media stream is

being established.

• #opened indicates that a connection to the RealMedia or Windows Media stream has been

established and is open. This is a transitory state that is very quickly followed by

#buffering.

• #buffering indicates that the RealMedia or Windows Media stream is being downloaded into

the playback buffer. When buffering is complete (

percentBuffered equals 100), the stream

begins to play if the

pausedAtStart property is FALSE. For more information, see

percentBuffered.

• #playing indicates that the RealMedia or Windows Media stream is currently playing.

• #seeking indicates that play was interrupted by the seek command.

• #paused indicates that play has been interrupted, possibly by the user clicking the Stop button

in the RealMedia or Windows Media viewer, or by a script invoking the

pause() method.

• #error indicates that the stream could not be connected, buffered, or played for some reason.

The

lastError property reports the actual error.

Depending on the cast member’s

state (RealMedia) value, a different mediaStatus property

value is returned. Each

mediaStatus value corresponds to only one state value.

Example

The following examples show that the RealMedia element in sprite 2 and the cast member

Real is playing.

-- Lingo syntax

put(sprite(2).mediaStatus) -- #playing

put(member("Real").mediaStatus) -- #playing

// JavaScript syntax

put(sprite(2).mediaStatus); // #playing

put(member("Real").mediaStatus); // #playing