I recently received some code from another developer and there's one piece I would like to rework. It's a flash app that works with mic and webcam. When it is started you are prompted to press a button - after that the usual flash player settings windows appears asking you to allow access to mic and cam. The application needs to wait for user's response on this question. It was achieved in the code I received in a rather awkward fashion. Application progressed on mouse movement event, which would not be registered since the flash player settings popup block the area. Once it out of the way - any mouse move would make application to go on. I need to rework with in some better way, because this piece of code is also used in AIR application that doesn't ask for allowance and, therefore, if you click the opening button you would need to move your mouse in order to get things running. I believe there must be some decent way to notify the app that settings popup is gone. Could anyone advice on this?
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The correct way to do this in Flash Player is to listen for StatusEvent.STATUS event which is dispatched after the user either allows or denies you access to their mic. See the documentation for Microphone.getMicrophone().
In AIR, however, you don't have to ask for user's permission to access their mic and camera, so this event is not dispatched when your application gets access to the input device. In that case, you can check through Capabilities.playerType property if your code is running in AIR and then proceed with doing what you would have done in response to receiving permission to access user's input devices.
