On Apr 17, 2006, at 4:05 PM, John Dowdell wrote:
Does this become "How does Apple recommend showing a QuickTime video
in the standalone QuickTime Player (if available), rather than a new
browser window?"? or...?
Not quite. It's pretty straight forward to do that. Apple has a set of
javascript QT object functions that will write an XHTML or HTML tag to
your page with the proper information in the embed and object params.
One of the properties is "target," which when set to "Quicktime Video
Player" will automatically launch the Quicktime application to play the
URL provided in the embed tag.
The problem is two-fold here, and neither of which I can figure out:
1. Use a getURL call to call a javascript function without loading up a
new page. For some reason, no matter what I do, getURL will always
change the browser page (ie, it changes to a blank page removing the
content you were looking at). I have no idea why it does this.
2. Call the javascript function to actually write the XHTML/HTML object
immediately after the flash embed, so that this will work properly.
With the javascript function call on a button in an HTML/XHTML page,
this is no problem - as the script for the button is replaced with the
embed tag. Not so with Flash.
Delivering the video as Flash is not really an option, because it's no
where near as good a the H.264 encoded QT video that I want to provide.
I just wish there were an easier solution.
cheers,
jon
Jon Bradley
Animation / Interactive / Visual FX
Post Central, Inc.
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On Apr 17, 2006, at 4:05 PM, John Dowdell wrote:
[I missed this new thread at first, because it was listed as part of
the "Talking to Flash from JavaScript" thread. Using "New" for a new
message keeps new topics from being hidden within old topics, as
occurs when using "Reply-To" in the emailer.)
Does this become "How does Apple recommend showing a QuickTime video
in the standalone QuickTime Player (if available), rather than a new
browser window?"? or...?
jd
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