How to communicate between flash plugins? Created Nov 20, 2009

If it is just a flash event, you can use dispatchEvent as you would normally in actionscript.

OK, thanks. I only wondered if there is some support from the Flowplayer API, like the PluginEvents.

Hi,

I haven't tried it yet, but the following should work.

Each plugin gets passed an instance of the FlowPlayer through the onLoad() function that you can use to dispatch events and to listen to events. I usually create a private var _flowplayer in onLoad, with code that looks like:

public function onLoad(player:Flowplayer):void {
			_flowplayer = player;
			_model.dispatchOnLoad();
		}

The FlowPlayer class is a child of the Flash EventDispatcher class, so you can use it to dispatch events and listen to events. All plugins should be able to do this.

So in plugin A you write something like

_flowplayer.dispatchEvent(new Event("myEventDescription"));

and in plugin B you listen for the same event:

_flowplayer.addEventListener("myEventDescription", myEventHandler);

Thank you for your reply, sounds good...

However, in the meantime I wrote my own event dispatcher. Thanks!

I'm interested as well, and I'd like to share my findings.

As of 3.1.5 it's not possible to listen to events on the Flowplayer object. The Flowplayer class extends the EventDispatcher (the Flowplayer version not the AS3 built-in version) which doesn't provide any public method to listen to events.

I don't quite get the purpose of the PluginModel.onPluginEvent() and PluginModel.dispatchEvent() seems it doesn't seem to be shared among plugins. Or maybe I'm wrong?

The only way right now seems to be what Peter did I suppose, which is to build (yet) another plugin to dispatch events (NB: this plugin would need to be loaded first in order to work properly...).

Can someone shed more light on this?

I'd like to first confirm it's not possible before posting a request for such a feature.