From: "Alexander M. Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: AW: Rendering Plugin drawing above a video Thanx for your hints - I am now using the window handle to draw my things above the video. It is flickering but it works - good enough for a prototyp. And I have luck: it works in RealPlayer itself as well as in Netscape and IE. I used IRMASite::SetSize() with a size of 1. This worked for drawing the video but I also implemented my own image-maps. But now I won't get any notice about mouse events - because the don't apear to be in my area. Is there a way to get informed about all mouse events, even if the are not in the plugin's area? Or do I have to use the SMIL anchor's instead? (The RealMedia-Events are not of use for my system). Thanx Alex > From: Nicholas Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Rendering Plugin drawing above a video > > If you use non-SDK mechanisms for drawing you have no guarantee that it > will work in all environments. > > For instance, the method you mentioned may not work in a situation where > someone implements their own windowless site. > > You also need to be careful about assumptions you make about the client > your renderer is running in. It might be in RealPlayer, it might be in the > ActiveX control or Netscape plugin. It might be in some custom client, or > details about the client that you assumed would always be true when you > wrote your renderer may change. (I've seen plenty of custom renderers > crash in the ActiveX control or Netscape plugin because the render made > some false assumptions about its window or the container application.) > > If you're going to go outside of the SDK in order to accomplish something > you should be careful about what assumptions you make and you should be > prepared to fail gracefully > ******************************************************* The RealForum is an email discussion group focused on using RealNetworks products. The RealForum is a place to post messages about the best methods for creating content using RealNetworks technologies and the planning and implementation of streaming-media web sites. Archives of RealForum can be found at http://realforum.real.com If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe realforum or from another account, besides the address you subscribed with: unsubscribe realforum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
