I want to use the Event metadata tags to show what types of event my control will dispatch. The syntax looks like:

<fx:Metadata>
    [Event(name="eventName", type="MyEvent")]
</fx:Metadata>

It seems like a best practice in Flex/Actionscript to define static variables that define event names like so:

public class MyEvent extends Event
{
    public static const EVENT_NAME:String = "eventName";
    // Other stuff..
}

It's a great practice since the event name can change easily and not have to be modified throughout the code. So my question is: Is there any way to use this static const in my metadata event tag? I can't seem to do something like this:

<fx:Metadata>
    [Event(name="{MyEvent.EVENT_NAME}", type="MyEvent")]
</fx:Metadata>

Am I just ignorant of the proper syntax to do this, or is it impossible? Seems like it's just asking for hard to find bugs if someone decides to change the const since it is not strongly typed here. Thanks in advance!

I am using the JWPlayer source code for 6.0.2813 (http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/) and It seems the even though I have a movieclip and I added the jwplayer class as a child, the jwplayer creates itself as a child of the main stage, thus allowing it to expand to the bound of the stage and not my movieclip (which I want to be a resizeable/draggable container) in my flash.

I asked the forums for help but they said they never intended it this way and wasn't much help. I was hoping someone familar with the source code could point my in the right direction.

How can I get the JWPlayer to be contained to a movieclip?

Edit:

I made a little bit of progress.

I found the RootReference class in com/longtailvideo/jwplayer/utils/RootReference.as

        public function RootReference(displayObj:DisplayObject) {
            if (!RootReference.root) {
                RootReference.root = displayObj.root;
                RootReference.stage = displayObj.stage;
                try {
                    Security.allowDomain("*");
                } catch(e:Error) {
                    // This may not work in the AIR testing suite
                }
            }
        }

And noticed that the RootReference.stage is where things get added as a child. RootReference.stage = displayObj.stage; where the player class object is sent as displayObj I changed it to be RootReference.stage = MovieClip(root).gui.video_container;

Then throughout the code RootReference.stage.stageHeight and RootReference.stage.stageWidth was used so I switched it to RootReference.stage.height and RootReference.stage.width. This got it to compile and now the video is within the container but the video's top left is center on my video_container's center and the video isn't resized to the size of my container, but rather the size of the video. Also the controls are completely messed up.

But I was able to resize and move the video around