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May 08.2008

Hello Everyone… its been a long time since ive done a bit of the old javascript and im having trouble getting something like this to work:

I have a media player that I can send control functions too: play; pause; stop etc… but I can only do it with seperate buttons for play and pause (as below)… it all works as is…

What I would like is a toggle button for play/pause that changes depending on the state of the media clip. If paused it shows “play” and vice-versa.

Can anyone help?

[CODE]<head>
function play(){
make object play
}

function pause(){
make object pause
}
</head>
<body>

<!– two seperate buttons need to make into one toggle button –>
<input type=”button” onClick=”play()” value=”play”>
<input type=”button” onClick=”pause()” value=”pause”>[/CODE]

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@Sirin86May 08.2008 — Just use a boolean:
<i>
</i>&lt;script&gt;
var playing = false;

function toggle(){
if (playing){
make element pause
}else{
make element play
}
document.getElementById("playBtn").value = (playing ? "Play" : "Pause");
playing = !playing;
}
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;input type = "button" onclick = "toggle" value = "Play" id = "playBtn" /&gt;
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@mrhooMay 08.2008 — function playpause(e){
var e= window.event || e;
var who= e.target || e.srcElement;
var val= who.value;

<i> </i>if(val== 'Play'){
<i> </i> who.value= 'Pause';
<i> </i> make object play
<i> </i>}
<i> </i>else{
<i> </i> who.value= 'Play';
<i> </i> make object pause
<i> </i>}
}
<input type="button" onClick="playpause()" value="Play">
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@aerrisauthorMay 08.2008 — Thanks Sirin

your solution worked a treat!

[CODE]<script>
var playing = false;

function toggle(){
if (playing){
alert("now im paused");
}else{
alert("now im playing");
}
document.getElementById("playBtn").value = (playing ? "Play" : "Pause");
playing = !playing;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type = "button" onclick = "toggle()" value = "Play" id = "playBtn" />[/CODE]

thanks also mrhoo but the first one sorted me out ?
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