Current status (play/pause) of Tour Controller?

[James Lamanna]

Hi,
Is there a way to grab the current status of the Tour Controller (i.e.
is it playing or paused)?
There doesn't appear to be one..

Thanks.

[fraser (Earth API Guru)]

Hi,

You could easily set a boolean flag for this yourself.
Obviously how you implement this would be dependant on how you have
set up your code.
Basically you would set a variable everytime you start/stop the tour.

e.g.
var isPlaying = false;
...
ge.getTourPlayer().play();
isPlaying = true;
...
ge.getTourPlayer().pause();
isPlaying = false;

Hope that helps,

F.

[James Lamanna]

Sure, you can do that, except that if you have a tour that pauses in
the middle (take some of the examples in the Google showcase),
the TourController can pause without your knowledge.
I've implemented a polling model that polls the .currentTime to see
when it has stopped, but to say that this is not elegant would be an
understatement.