[flexcoders] VideoDisplay bug?! How to extend to change a private variable?

[beecee1977]

Hi,

I would normally spend more time trying to work this out first, but 
I'm under a bit of pressure... There appears to be a bug in the 
VideoDisplay code. 

vid.close() => within the videoDisplay a private variable called 
closeCalled is set to true. 
vid.play() => the closeCalled variable is set to be false in the play 
function.

Fine, but:
vid.close() => closeCalled=true
vid.load() => loadVideo()
vid.play() => if (closeCalled==true) {loadVideo()}

So if you load in the video this variable is not reset to false. This 
means that the video gets loaded twice; once when the video is loaded 
and once when the video is played... 

Anyway, all this is besides the point... I just want to know how to 
get around this. I've tried this:

package libraries.utility
{
        import mx.controls.VideoDisplay;

        public class NewVideoDisplay extends VideoDisplay
        {
                //private var closeCalled:Boolean = false;      


                public function NewVideoDisplay()
                {
                        super();
                }
                
                override public function load():void
                {
                        super.load();
                        closeCalled = false;
                }
                
        }
}


but naturally I cannot access the private variable closeCalled. How 
do I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance
Bill