Call an action at a specific video time

Hi Klaus,

I am trying to call an action at a specific time after a video has been started. In an older thread, you posted this loop

<action name="checkvideotime">
  trace('video time=',plugin[video].time);
  if(plugin[video].time GT 5, action(...));    
  ...
  delayedcall(1.0, checkvideotime() );
</action>

For me it is imortant to use this loop with an is equal operator ==, however this doesn´t seem to work.

I have changed this a little but it still only works with a GT operator, not with == or ===. My code looks like this:

<action name="eventstarter">
  copy(plugin[video].time);
  if(plugin[video].time == 5, blendinspot(hs1) ); 
  delayedcall(1.0, eventstarter() );
</action>

Why does it only work with GT?
Thank you very much for your help

Thomas

Hi Tuur,

thank you so much for the quick reply. I tried the code you sent me but it still does not work.
Maybe i am doing the roundval of the video time wrongly. How exactly would i do this.
This is a bit new to me.

The thing i am trying is that i want to have a hotspot appear at a specific time and accompany this by a sound (ding).
If i do not limit the action to an exact second, using GT will have the sound repeat over and over again.

Thank you,

Cheers
Thomas

HI Tuur,

yeah, i got it to work! Thank you so much, you were a great help for me

cheers
Thomas

HI Everybody,

I did it like this, with Tuurs help:
call the eventstarter action in the beginning (onvideoplay)

<action name="eventstarter">
  copy(plugin[video].time);
  if((plugin[video].time GT 5) AND (plugin[video].time LT 6) , blendinspot(hs1)); 
  if((plugin[video].time GT 30) AND (plugin[video].time LT 31) , blendoutspot(hs1)); 
  delayedcall(1.0, eventstarter() );
</action>

Since i wanted to keep my hotspots i just tweened the size and alpha and also enabled / disabled them.

cheers
Thomas