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On the Freeway website in the whats new in Freeway 5.5 pages, when you play one of the videos a video player appears and the page fades away. What player is being used, how do you make it appear and finally how do you make the page dim into the background.

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Have you had a look at ScriptyLightbox at actionsforge.com ScriptyLightbox - ActionsForge

David

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David,

Thanks, but I’m struggling to make this work.

What I’m trying to do is on a film review page, see the link below, is let readers click either of the two images on the page and the film’s trailer will appear.

Reading the instructions that I found on the link that you supplied this should be possible, however I can’t get it to work. The instructions referred to linking the image to the file that I want to display, in this case a flash movie. Having done so, I cannot then apply the ScriptyLightbox action to the linked image.

I’m obviously missing something very obvious.

Ian

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/Goreinthestore/rubber.html

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Try the following in a new page. Draw a graphic box on the page and
import a picture into it to serve as your thumbnail image for your
movie. Apply the Graphic Link to File Action to that box, and use the
Action’s interface to select your Flash movie. Next, apply the
ScriptyLightbox (note – not ScriptyLightbox2, as that’s a different
Action and won’t play Flash) to the same graphic box. In the Action
interface, enter the dimensions of your Flash movie (optional, if you
don’t like the look of infinite zoom). Preview in a browser and see
how it works.

Now if you have two movies, as you mentioned, an easy way to get both
of them linked at once is to do the following: Draw an HTML box large
enough to hold both thumbnail images. Apply the ScriptyLighbox Action
to that HTML box, and set the dimensions as above. Then, while that
box is highlighted, draw a graphics box over it to hold your first
thumbnail. You’ll know you’re doing it right if the edges of the HTML
box light up in blue. Click again on the HTML box and draw your second
graphics box thumbnail. Now set up each thumbnail as before, applying
the Graphic Link to File to specify the movie that it should play, and
placing an image within it to symbolize that movie.

This way you skip one extra invocation of ScriptyLightbox, since it
will look at all of the contents of the HTML box and apply its effect
to any links contained within itself. For two, it’s a toss-up whether
this is any faster, but for a big gallery of images, applying the SL
Action to the parent container is a huge time-saver.

Walter

On Apr 12, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Rattie wrote:

David,

Thanks, but I’m struggling to make this work.

What I’m trying to do is on a film review page, see the link below,
is let readers click either of the two images on the page and the
film’s trailer will appear.

Reading the instructions that I found on the link that you supplied
this should be possible, however I can’t get it to work. The
instructions referred to linking the image to the file that I want
to display, in this case a flash movie. Having done so, I cannot
then apply the ScriptyLightbox action to the linked image.

I’m obviously missing something very obvious.

Ian

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/Goreinthestore/rubber.html

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I’m still not having much luck with the Scriptylightbox action. Following your instructions to the letter I still can’t get it to work. You can see on the link below the result. The flash video I’m trying to link to wants to download rather than display on the page.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/Goreinthestore/rubber.html

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Is this an FLV file? No lightbox can play those directly. You have to have a SWF “wrapper” around it to provide the controls and translation for the browser.

Walter

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