streaming audio/loss of focus
June 16, 2006 12:00 AM
It has to do with the way the buttons work in IE 6.I'm not sure if it's Lectora, or IE 6, because in Lectora 2004 published files buttons controlling a windows media file viewed in IE 6 worked fine, play, pause, etc. As soon as Lectora 2005 came along - no workie - video reset to the beginning of the file as soon as any button was clicked.It took a while to create the workaround, but here you go - the buttons that control interactive elements on a screen that includes a windows media file can't be buttons in the pure sense. Something to do with the way the onclick action is handled or reported I think - what you have to do is create a an ALTERNATE STYLE OF BUTTON using a text box with an embedded graphic inside of the text box. That graphic can be converted into a button by using actions (on mouseEnter, on mouseLeave, on mouseDown). The neat thing is Lectora has the capability to create this button without ever really promoting it as a button option.You'll know it works differently because there's NO AUDIBLE CLICK when you select this alternate button - unlike standard Lectora buttons. You can't use straight graphics either as buttons, and add actions to those - it won't work - the graphic elements HAVE TO BE EMBEDDED INSIDE A TEXT BOX. Create a text box - DOUBLE CLICK INSIDE THE TEXT BOX - right click - Insert>image). The rest is easy to figure out.Once you create this style of button, you'll find there's some CRAZY things you can do with it - and you might never make buttons the same way again.Edited By: administrator on 2007-5-8 10:24:46
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