Adobe AIR Development

[shawnblais]

Nice call Peter, I always have a tough time actually tracking down the docs for each SDK. I'll give that a shot. play_audio is not required to actually play audio, so it seems that it might fit the bill for the audio controls...

[shawnblais]

Ok, I managed to get this working!

Here is the process:

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var mediaService:MediaServiceConnection = new MediaServiceConnection();

mediaService.connect();

mediaService.requestAudioService();

mediaService.addEventListener(MediaServiceRequestEvent.TRACK_PAUSE, function(){ trace("Pause!"); });

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That's all you really need to do! You now get a pause event anytime the button is clicked From what I'm seeing PLAY/NEXT/PREV are never dispatched.

If you want to still be able to compile on the desktop, just throw those 4 lines in a function, and then you can do:

if(Capabilities.os.indexOf("PlayBook") > -1){

      addPauseListener();

}

Note: After connection you'll get connectionSuccess event, after requesting the audioService, you'll get an accessChanged event. I don't see any issues just attaching your PAUSE handler upfront though...and calling requestAudio immediately after connect() seems to work fine.

[brad51]

this didn't work for me.  i have a timer app with an alarm. i have the MediaServiceRequestEvent.TRACK_PAUSE triggering a stopSound function. with this code in my app, the play/pause button still has its default action. it toggles muting for the Playbook on and off instead of simply stopping the audio. anyone else getting this to work?