[Pro] Pop Up window for video

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Just wondering if there is an action to create a pop up video like found the softpress tutorials. What I am trying to do is create a text based link which would open an embedded youtube video in a new window just like the tutorials.

http://www.softpress.com/support/tutorials.html

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ScriptyLightbox2 can do this. Insert an inline instance of the Action in the text box where you want the link to appear. Set the link text and the link to the YouTube video in the Action interface.

Walter

On Aug 22, 2012, at 11:48 AM, John Donahue wrote:

Just wondering if there is an action to create a pop up video like found the softpress tutorials. What I am trying to do is create a text based link which would open an embedded youtube video in a new window just like the tutorials.

http://www.softpress.com/support/tutorials.html

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Walter,

I appreciate the tip. I downloaded SLB2 and made the text link but can’t figure out how to link to the YouTube video. I tried clicking on the “use page/url as target” check box then filled in an external link using both the url from the video and the embed code but I can’t get the pop up box. It works great when I use a page from my website so I’m sure I just am not plugging in the correct external link. Any other tips?

Thanks

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Okay, I’ve tracked this down. The issue is that the URL doesn’t end in a file-type extension, and my code doesn’t cover that possibility correctly. I need to make some changes to the detection part and release an update.

Walter

On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:41 PM, John Donahue wrote:

Walter,

I appreciate the tip. I downloaded SLB2 and made the text link but can’t figure out how to link to the YouTube video. I tried clicking on the “use page/url as target” check box then filled in an external link using both the url from the video and the embed code but I can’t get the pop up box. It works great when I use a page from my website so I’m sure I just am not plugging in the correct external link. Any other tips?

Thanks

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Get version 0.7.4 and that should work. One more detail about this method when using YouTube. Be sure to click on the Embed button when you do, and copy the code they give you. Paste it into the URL field in the External tab of the Hyperlink dialog when making your link, and finally, crop down the code to remove the iframe part, keeping only the src attribute.

If you wanted to share this lovely bit of Americana:

You would click on the Share button in that page, and then the Embed button next to the main (shortened) URL they give you. A segment would open below that with this code:

<iframe width="420" height="315" 
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1C1ych583TI?rel=0" 
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Copy that, and paste it into the URL field in Freeway. But before you okay that, chop it down to just this:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/1C1ych583TI?rel=0

Make sense?

Walter

On Aug 22, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Okay, I’ve tracked this down. The issue is that the URL doesn’t end in a file-type extension, and my code doesn’t cover that possibility correctly. I need to make some changes to the detection part and release an update.

Walter

On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:41 PM, John Donahue wrote:

Walter,

I appreciate the tip. I downloaded SLB2 and made the text link but can’t figure out how to link to the YouTube video. I tried clicking on the “use page/url as target” check box then filled in an external link using both the url from the video and the embed code but I can’t get the pop up box. It works great when I use a page from my website so I’m sure I just am not plugging in the correct external link. Any other tips?

Thanks

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Perfect! Thanks for the help.

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