Large Play button on video does not play the video?

[brian]

Why does the large play button that is overlayed on the video when you click pause not actual clickable? Ive tried this in our own project and your examples?

http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#MediaPlayer/MediaCommands

Surely this is what a user would expect to happen?

[Miro Miroslavov]

Hi brian,

This is a bug introduced with our latest builds. I've created work item for it and will be fixed for the next minor release.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

All the best,
Miro Miroslavov
the Telerik team

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[Jim]

Can you provide any kind of workaround?  Some snippet that will tweak the behavior to fix the problem?  I was just about to deploy a new version of my project when I came across this bug in testing.  I'm in a bit of a bind - I can't really wait for a new release of Rad controls, nor do I have time to re-test my project with a different version!  Anything you can provide is hugely appreciated...

[Jim]

Nevermind, I've figured out a way to fix it until the next official release.  All you need to do is attach to the RadMediaPlayer's Loaded event and from there dig into the visual tree, find the "PlayButton" element, and set its Canvas.SetZIndex property to 1.  After that, the play button will be clickable as normal.

private void RadMediaPlayer_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    RadMediaPlayer radMediaPlayer = (RadMediaPlayer)sender;
    if (radMediaPlayer != null && VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(radMediaPlayer) > 0)
    {
        Grid root = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(radMediaPlayer, 0) as Grid;
        if (root != null)
        {
            RadButton playButton = root.FindName("PlayButton") as RadButton;
            if (playButton != null)
                Canvas.SetZIndex(playButton, 1);
        }
    }
}

[Miro Miroslavov]

Hello Jim,

You are correct. However it will be OK in the official Q2 release in a couple of days.

Regards,
Miro Miroslavov
the Telerik team