JavaScript API to pause/play the animation

[angel-herraez]

Hi, I just discovered Ruffle and I am enthusiastic with the chance to reliven some old animations. Thank you for making it!
I have an swf animation that runs in steps. When it stops (pauses) after a step, I was using a button in the webpage to send Flash the Play() method.
I wonder if this play method can be invoked in Ruffle. I could not find a doc or example.
Here is my current code:
var Rplayer; window.RufflePlayer = window.RufflePlayer || {}; window.addEventListener("load", (event) => { const ruffle = window.RufflePlayer.newest(); window.Rplayer = ruffle.createPlayer(); const container = document.getElementById("peliCont"); container.appendChild(Rplayer); Rplayer.load("gel_electrophoresis.swf").then(() => { console.info("Ruffle successfully loaded the file"); }).catch((e) => { console.error("Ruffle failed to load the file: ${e}"); }); });

[SoftCreatR]

It works, I use it by myself to allow flash videos to be paused/resumed.

Simply call window.Rplayer.pause() or window.Rplayer.play() to make it work. However, it's currently hard to tell, if an instance is playing or paused. For this, I'm toggling a simple CSS class to determine it by myself. It works in most cases. The only exception I'm aware of is on page load, but that's fine, I guess. You may support my idea: #3324

You can also check out our implementation here: https://www.softcreatr.com/z0r/

[angel-herraez]

Thank you. Unfortunately, it does not solve my problem with the particular swf file that I need to convert. It plays nicely with Ruffle and I can have pause / resume working as you say.
However, this animation is built in steps, after each one it stops and you need to click in a control inside the animation. When it was Flash Player, the play() method worked the same as the click, so I could emulate the progress to next step using Javascript from a button in my webpage. However, in Ruffle this is not the case; the play() function does not make it progress to the next stage.
I guess this is not a problem with Ruffle, but with my swf file.
Anyway, thank you for explaining these options.