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It's critical to understand that from here, everything that the YouTubeLoader does within the flash file, is controlled via the JavaScript functions. Your Flash/Flex source file will create a instance of the YouTubeLoader ActionScript class your XHTML page embeds the flash file and registers it with the functions within the youTubeLoader JavaScript file. The ActionScript 3.0 Wrapper consists of essentially two interconnected parts, the ActionScript 3.0 class files located in src/choppingblock/video/ (Figure 2), and the 'youTubeLoader.js' JavaScript file located in deploy/_assets/js/ (Figure 3).

Adobe ExternalInterface Class Documentation.

Official YouTube JavaScript Player API Reference.

View the ActionScript 3.0 Wrapper, and download source files.

Many of the topics discussed in this article are further detailed within the links below. Important Resourcesīefore we begin, here is a list of related resources and files available to you. This demo is going to focus on the latter because the ExternalInterface works seamlessly with the well documented JavaScript API and therefore plays well with anything else within the XHTML page. Fortunately the ActionScript language contains two plausible workarounds for reconnecting these nested yet disconnected pieces, the LocalConnection class or the ExternalInterface class. Our wrapper needs to be fully aware of that fact and react accordingly.

This is further complicated because the swf file coming from YourTube's servers is loading a video into itself. While it's easy to load the ActionScript 2.0 players into an ActionScript 3.0 swf, you can not directly communicate or pass any functional calls into the loaded player. YouTube's Flash API and embedded players are written in, and work quite well with ActionScript 2.0 if your project is ActionScript 3.0 however, seamless integration becomes a bit more complex. This approach is ideal for small projects on fixed budgets that don't allow for hosting video, as well as large scale projects for clients wanting a custom end-user experience without distancing themselves from their YouYube audience.įigure 1: ActionScript 3.0 Wrapper Screenshot

Google's YouTube Player Tools and Chromeless Player have empowered designers/developers to quickly and easily integrate the power of YouTube into their online projects. The wrapper leverages ActionScript's ExternalInterface class and YouTube's JavaScript API.

In this article, I will present and briefly outline a reliable ActionScript 3.0 Wrapper for the Chromeless YouTube Player.

Embedding the swf and Connecting the youTubeLoader JavaScript.

Matthew Richmond, The Chopping Block, Inc. The YouTube APIs and Tools team thanks Matthew Richmond for his time and expertise. This article was written and submitted by an external developer.