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:
- Contains all of your regular pages, and contains all the Spawn New
Window references to other pages, but those references are coded as
file links (click on the External tab and then the Browse button in
the Hyperlink dialog).
- Does not contain any of the QuickTime movies themselves.
QuickTime document:
- Contains all of the pages that appear in the spawned windows
- Publishes into the same site folder as the original document
- Gets published first, so the new movie pages are created before
they are linked to from the original 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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