Playing a Movie File

Once you complete all the preparatory steps, you can play your movie. The following Movie Player functions start and stop a movie, check playback status, and advance the movie frames:

mmpStartAnimating

Prepares the stage window and starts playback.

mmpStopAnimating

Stops playback with an optional final update.

mmpAnimate

Prompts the Movie Player to perform the transition to the next segment in the animation.

mmpAnimStatus

Checks the animation status.

mmpAnimStopped

Checks whether a movie is currently running.

Calling mmpStartAnimating notifies the Movie Player that playback is to start. The mmpAnimate function, however, actually advances the movie frames. Before you start playback using mmpStartAnimating, mmpAnimate returns without advancing the animation.