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| mllnprod 2006-02-12, 6:41 pm |
| I want to know how I can insert a streaming quicktime window without using a
browser window. Does anyone know how to do this? Example, go to
www.cpgtv.com. After it loads rollover on "Broadcast / Non Broadcast". Under
"Work" there is are choices for what format. Click "Demo Reel - Quicktime
High". This is what I want. Very simple but can't figure out how to do this.
There is nothing but just the Quicktime. Thanks for your help...Mike
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| Alan Smithee Jr. 2006-02-12, 6:41 pm |
| Without using a browser window???
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| mllnprod 2006-02-12, 6:42 pm |
| Well, I guess it really is a browser but without a menu bar, nav or anything else. Just the Quicktime.
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| Polar Light 2006-02-12, 6:42 pm |
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"mllnprod" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dsjt3e$osh$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I want to know how I can insert a streaming quicktime window without using
>a
> browser window. Does anyone know how to do this? Example, go to
> www.cpgtv.com. After it loads rollover on "Broadcast / Non Broadcast".
> Under
> "Work" there is are choices for what format. Click "Demo Reel - Quicktime
> High". This is what I want. Very simple but can't figure out how to do
> this.
> There is nothing but just the Quicktime. Thanks for your help...Mike
It's simply a Javascript browser window. In DW you can create one of these
using the 'open browser window' behavior (or a third party equivalent),
however, the site above is done entirely in Flash, which means having to
insert the Javascript code to open the new window manually within the
'getURL...' actionScript code for the button. This is a Flash rather than a
DW topic, however, if you're not doing your site in Flash, you can just use
the DW behaviour. You CAN link directly to a .mov (Quicktime) file without
creating an HTML container page for it.
The problem with the 'open browser window' behavior (or JS handcoding
equivalent) is that some pop-up blockers are also blocking windows triggered
by 'onClick' events, I saw that happen yesterday on a friend's computer,
which had all the free toolbars installed (Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.) Each &
everyone of them was blocking my 'onClick' windows, some of them containing
only a QT movie like the example above. You may need to tell your visitors
how to get around this problem. Just when you thought web design was getting
easier..
;-( ;-(
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| mllnprod 2006-02-12, 6:43 pm |
| Well I tried it and I was able to get just the player and it controls but I
still have another browser window in the background that I can't get rid of. I
am using DW and not flash. The "Open Browser Window" is pretty generic so all
I entered was the size and the URL of the media. Any ideas?
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| forumnotifier 2006-02-12, 6:43 pm |
| Well I tried it and I was able to get just the player and it controls but I
still have another browser window in the background that I can't get rid of. I
am using DW and not flash. The "Open Browser Window" is pretty generic so all
I entered was the size and the URL of the media. Any ideas?
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| Alan Smithee Jr. 2006-02-12, 6:43 pm |
| > but I still have another browser window in the background that I
can't get rid of.
You have the browser with the originating page, the new one spawned from
that page using the DW behavior...AND...something else?
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| mllnprod 2006-02-12, 6:43 pm |
| This is what I really want to do. On my main page (index) I want a button that
is linked to a .mov. When you click on it the .mov pops up in the upper left
hand corner and gives you the controls to play it.
Right now when you click on the button it loads an html page and then the
..mov. This is using the "Open Browser Window". Is there a way to just link the
..mov from my main index page without a second browser? A pop-up maybe?
I hope I am making sense.
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| Alan Smithee Jr. 2006-02-12, 6:43 pm |
| Create a layer on your page...name it whatever you like. Insert a two row
table into the layer. Use the FixMovie command to insert the .mov into the
top row of the table. Set the autoplay parameter of the movie to "False" so
that the movie will not play as soon as the page is loaded.
In the bottom row of the table add a button or text ("close window"...or
something similar) with javascript:; in the Link field of the Property
Inspector so that you can assign a behavior to the text. The behavior to
assign is "Show/Hide Layer." Chose to hide the named layer that contains the
..mov.
Create a button or text (as above...something like "play movie" or whatever
you like) on your page somewhere and use the Show/Hide Layer behavior to
Show the layer.
Hide the layer.
Now...when you load the page. The layer containing the movie is hidden. The
"play movie" button with make the layer visible and reveal the controls.
Make sure you've allowed enough space for the movie and the control bar to
be visible. Clicking on the "close window" button will hide the layer.
Voila...you have your pop-up in the upper left hand corner of the window if
the movie layer coordinates are top - 0 and left - 0 .... or whatever
distance you might want to "indent" or "drop down."
Or....you could not hide the layer but start it off screen using negative
coordinates and use Project Seven's Layer Animagic to move the layer into
the visible portion of the browser window...and the "close window" button to
move it off screen again. Might be more "fun."
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