Hi all,
I would like to put a folder on my server for QT movies,but I don’t know how to make the connection from my web page. I’m using a button link to the Spawn new page action which I would like to keep, but this does not allow me to put a server connection in. Can any-one tell me a way around this please.
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Not quite sure what you mean here - do you mean you want a server folder that only contains your QT movies? Or are your movies to be viewed via a FW created web page accessed via the Spawn New Window action which are contained within a separate folder?
If the latter then just create a new folder in the site pane at the left. Control/Click the existing site folder and select new folder - give it a suitable name.
Then you can create new FW pages in that folder, put the QT movies on the pages, resize to suit and then link to these new pages using the Spawn New Window actiion by selecting the correct page from the Page to use drop down list and setting the sizes (window properties), scrollbars etc in the action inspector.
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Hi Dave,
I actually want both I think, My problem starts at the updating and uploading stage because each time I update and move things around all the movies & there are more to come have to be uploaded again and I wanted to get round that problem by putting them a folder on the server & then linking to them from the web page.
My spawned NW pages are all in one folder, but the link from that only appears to allow me to chose a movie on my hard disc.The test site is below which may help, this is all run by volunteers including me.
www.machaven.co.uk/dwt/films.html
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If you upload all of the QuickTime files using an FTP application,
then yes you can use the approach you describe. But the problem you
will run into is that Freeway needs to see that you have added a
QuickTime movie to the page in order to get the proper plug-in
sniffing code into the page. So you’re stuck a bit, unless you are
linking directly to a bare MOV file, and not wrapping it in all the
JavaScript that Microsoft’s greed has forced to be necessary.
If you have lots of movie files, all the same size, then I would do
something clever on the server, so you could include the proper code
once and not have to suffer through uploading every time you make a
design change to the page. Please let me know if you want an example
of that, I can dig it out of one of my projects.
Walter
On Mar 21, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Barney wrote:
Hi Dave,
I actually want both I think, My problem starts at the updating and
uploading stage because each time I update and move things around
all the movies & there are more to come have to be uploaded again
and I wanted to get round that problem by putting them a folder on
the server & then linking to them from the web page.
My spawned NW pages are all in one folder, but the link from that
only appears to allow me to chose a movie on my hard disc.The test
site is below which may help, this is all run by volunteers
including me.
www.machaven.co.uk/dwt/films.html
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Walter,
Thank you for the reply, these movies are all taken by different people some with phones and some via cameras so I have no control over size, possible range 3 - 15mb. If you think one of your past projects would be suitable for this then yes please and thank you very much. Should this is not the case could you expand on the bare MOV file part of your reply please.
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You can make a link directly to a file, just as you can make a link
to a page (actually, think about it – that’s linking to a file as
well). So if you make a text or graphic link to http://example.com/
movies/yourmovie.mov then the movie will appear, centered in a blank
page, and the browser will decide what to do with it. That’s what I
mean by “bare”.
If you make these sorts of links manually, then Freeway won’t have
anything to do with the movies, and you can upload them separately
from the rest of the site.
Walter
On Mar 21, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Barney wrote:
Walter,
Thank you for the reply, these movies are all taken by different
people some with phones and some via cameras so I have no control
over size, possible range 3 - 15mb. If you think one of your past
projects would be suitable for this then yes please and thank you
very much. Should this is not the case could you expand on the bare
MOV file part of your reply please.Regards
Barney
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Walter,
My only problem with the “Bare” style is I will have no control over the page size, & I would like the visitors to be able to still see all the buttons whilst viewing. Is there a simple way to have a hyperlink-Button open a movie in a graphic box of 400x400 on the same page as itself.
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This could probably be done using an iFrame - there was discussion not that long ago about links to content in iFrames
“… what you do is create the link for each url > then press the extended button > then press new > in the name box type “target” ( without the quotes ) > then in the value box type the name of your iframe ( i.e. iframe, fred, or whatever” ) > then type ok > and ok again.”
Have a look at the thread: http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/26694#m_26944
A lot of stuff in here is not relevant to what you want but I think the info you need is there.
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But the problem you are having – everything uploading each time you
make a change – is going to persist then. In order to make the popup
window a different shape, you are going to need to target a page, not
just a file, and if that page is part of the same Freeway document,
then you are going to have the original problem once more.
If all of your movies were going to be the same dimensions, then I
could suggest a simple way to do this. But as you noted, they are
coming from near and far.
I think that you might be able to mitigate the problem by putting the
movies in a separate Freeway document (publishing into the same site
folder) and publishing them separately. Maybe if you are not putting
the Spawn New Window action into the same league as the QuickTime
upload you may break the spell that keeps causing these unchanged
movie files to upload.
Original document:
QuickTime document:
So each time you make changes, you would upload your QuickTime
document first, then switch to your original document and create the
new Spawn New WIndow links to the new movies.
I would recommend you use the “Split the Site” technique outlined
below in order to make this happen.
To make your new “QuickTime-only” document, simply make a Finder
duplicate of your original site. In the site pane, delete all of the
regular pages from the site, leaving only the QuickTime popup pages.
In your original document, delete all of he QuickTime popup pages.
You may see an error message alerting you that you are deleting
linked pages. Agree to the proposal to replace these references with
manual links.
Now, very important, look into the site folder where Freeway
publishes its files on your hard disk. Delete everything within it
and empty the trash. Next, publish the QuickTIme document first, then
the original document, then go back and do both again in that order.
What will happen is that both documents will believe that they need
to remove the other document’s files, since they were deleted from
the Freeway document that originally contained them. Doing this
little two-step will purge both documents of this desire, and from
then on you won’t have any issues.
Walter
On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Barney wrote:
Walter,
My only problem with the “Bare” style is I will have no control
over the page size, & I would like the visitors to be able to still
see all the buttons whilst viewing. Is there a simple way to have a
hyperlink-Button open a movie in a graphic box of 400x400 on the
same page as itself.Barney
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Now this is the value that you put in the iFrame action inspector pane and NOT what the iFrame is called in the Item General Settings of the Page Inspector
URL:
Scrolling:
Alignment:
Frame border:
Margin width:
Margin height:
Name: My iFrame Name
So to target your iFrame from your link you would have
the name box type “target” (without the quotes) > then in the value box type the name of your iframe which in this case would be “My iFrame Name” without the quotes of course.
Hi David
Thanks for pointing me to this.
I have set the iFrame name at the bottom of the Actions inspector as ( qt ) and used this in value box as below together with target, but I cannot see where you put each URL to connect the iF to the movie & the button
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Hi walter,
Having read your reply I will try to get my head round it and do a test site as a trial, being fairly new to all this I’ll have my Asprin along side me, but thanks for the moment.
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David,
I have now sorted the iFrame method out and it works just fine, thank-you. I will now have a go at Walters and see which works out best, forever learning.
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