I have mouse over sounds using the sound fx action. They are tiny mp3’s. These work great on my mac in Safari 3.1. But when I see my site on a PC with IE6 there are no sounds. I checked with resourses. They are listed as status OK and the publish is checked but greyed out. Can anyone tell me what this means or possibly why they won’t play?
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It works fine here. You got an example online?
Joe
On 2 Jun 2008, at 16:17, shybuckstudio wrote:
I have mouse over sounds using the sound fx action. They are tiny
mp3’s. These work great on my mac in Safari 3.1. But when I see my
site on a PC with IE6 there are no sounds. I checked with
resourses. They are listed as status OK and the publish is checked
but greyed out. Can anyone tell me what this means or possibly why
they won’t play?
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yes…http://www.shybuckstudios.com
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Hey Shybuck,
I think the scroller code (line 252) is causing the problem, I get an
Object Expected error when viewing on IE, further inspection in the
Firebug Firefox extension shows that:
document.getElementById(“content”) is null
Looks like your missing the content ID attribute on the scrolling area
and IE is throwing a hissy fit.
I hope this helps,
Joe
On 3 Jun 2008, at 15:57, shybuckstudio wrote:
yes…http://www.shybuckstudios.com
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OK Joe, how do I fix the scroller code? As you can tell by my question I don’t have any idea about code or line 252. Do you know what this is about? How would I get to line 252 and add an ID attribute…any suggestions would sooth my head. thanks in advance!
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Well, you may be able to completely remove this code:
from your Page>HTML Markup “After ” field. I can’t see that
it’sdoing anything, the scrolling is being controlled by the code in
the head tag.
I haven’t tested that or anything though.
Joe
On 5 Jun 2008, at 02:07, shybuckstudio wrote:
OK Joe, how do I fix the scroller code? As you can tell by my
question I don’t have any idea about code or line 252. Do you know
what this is about? How would I get to line 252 and add an ID
attribute…any suggestions would sooth my head. thanks in advance!
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Hey Joe,
I’ve removed the code. It doesn’t seem to do anything as far as sound is concerned. Thanks for looking though…maybe Walt knows…yeah, maybe Walt knows!
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I haven’t tried this effect yet myself. I looked at your page, and it works in Firefox without any errors (a trifle slow to react, perhaps). When I looked at the source code, I saw that the effect was applied to the DIV surrounding each link, rather than to the link inside it.
What might be happening here is that IE is letting the inner-most mouseover event (the one on the link) override the mouseover event on the outer DIV.
Try this to see if you can narrow it down:
You should end up with two html boxes that have the Attention FX applied to them, but one of these boxes should be empty. (Apply some background color to the second one so you can see it in the page.)
Preview this into IE and see if you can get the sound effect from the second one, but not the first.
I don’t have a PC here, just an account on BrowserCam, so I can’t hear anything in IE (not even sure where the PC actually is, in fact).
Walter
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Thanks for your response and time Walt. I’ve tried what you suggested…copied a rollover item onto a new doc. then duped it and deleted the text and link from the one. On Safari this works great. Both have sounds and the rollover with text works (of course).
On a PC with IE6 there is no sound on either.
What could be my next course of action? thanks Walt…and yes the sound is a tad slow.I’ve often wished I knew more so I could use flash for this.
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Next debugging step would be to determine if this particular instance of IE can even deal with mp3 files. (It could all be down to misconfiguration of this one machine.) Create a new page in your test document, draw an HTML box, and then press Apple E to get content for it. Navigate to your MP3 file and when you okay the dialog, you should see a puzzle-piece in the upper left corner of the HTML box. Preview that in your busted browser, and see if the sound plays. (It should.)
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Hey Shy,
I just downloaded your MP3 and it just doesn’t play in Windows. I
tried it through WMP and it’s doing nothing. Where did the file come
from?
Joe
On 6 Jun 2008, at 15:52, waltd wrote:
Next debugging step would be to determine if this particular
instance of IE can even deal with mp3 files. (It could all be down
to misconfiguration of this one machine.) Create a new page in your
test document, draw an HTML box, and then press Apple E to get
content for it. Navigate to your MP3 file and when you okay the
dialog, you should see a puzzle-piece in the upper left corner of
the HTML box. Preview that in your busted browser, and see if the
sound plays. (It should.)Walter
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wow! I got it on line at soundrangers…I turned it into a MP3 because that is the smallest sound file . The funny thing is though, weeks ago during testing my site was OK sound wise on a PC with IE. I’ll also try Walt’s suggestion and/or eventualy change into some other sound file. And yes maybe it’s the machine. thanks guys!
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OK guys here’s what I found out. I did as Walt suggested and drew 2 html boxes. One with the MP3 and the other with a WAV file. These both played on the PC, which btw I found out is running IE7 not 6.
I replaced all my sound files with the new WAV files just for the heck of it. They now work in IE7!!! Hooray!
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I have a similar problem which is driving me slightly round the bend. It concerns the page “INSTRUMENT” Here is the link
http://www.musikraketen.se/HEMLIGA%20RUMMET/LYSSNA/instrument.html#
Works fine in Mac and Safari but not in PC / Windows and IE (11). Has anyone any suggestion how to fix this? I would be very grateful for some help here… I am not good at code which is one of the reasons for using Freeway.
Actions used on this page are SoundFX and TransitionFX. Menus are CSS.
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What format is your audio file? WAV is best for cross-browser compatibility. Also, only use this feature with truly TINY files. Each time you click, the audio file has to be downloaded before it will play. This is not a good substitute for an
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On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Marten Smith wrote:
I have a similar problem which is driving me slightly round the bend. It concerns the page “INSTRUMENT” Here is the link
http://www.musikraketen.se/HEMLIGA%20RUMMET/LYSSNA/instrument.html#Works fine in Mac and Safari but not in PC / Windows and IE (11). Has anyone any suggestion how to fix this? I would be very grateful for some help here… I am not good at code which is one of the reasons for using Freeway.
Actions used on this page are SoundFX and TransitionFX. Menus are CSS.
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Thanks very much! So a solution could be to make the wav-files very small? Or would it be a good idea to make small flash movies? Or is there another manageable solution? If I use “link to file” a black page comes up with a player– is there a way to play the sound automatically and stay on the original page?
A lot of questions, but this really baffles me.
Truly grateful for any help with this, I’m feeling very stupid.
Marten
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The SoundFX Action uses the Scriptaculous Sound library, which uses JavaScript to play sound files on the browser. It doesn’t magically turn every browser into an iPod, though. It can only make a sound start and stop, but it cannot translate the sound into a format that the browser is able to play. WAV files are universal, but WAV is an uncompressed format, and so any sound more than a couple of seconds long will get very large, and because of the way this effect works, the first time you click the button to play, the sound will first have to download into the browser’s cache. This takes longer the larger the file is, and there’s no way to preload it without making it play out loud.
If you’re trying to play a music file back (like a song – something more than a little bleep or bloop), and you want to present a universal set of controls for the user, you’re going to need to use a different method than this Action. There are Flash players that do a good job of abstracting this away, but they are not accessible on mobile devices. If that’s important to you, then you need to use something that has support for that platform. AudioJS is one approach, and there’s an Action for that here: http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/245-audiojs
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On Jan 30, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Marten Smith wrote:
Thanks very much! So a solution could be to make the wav-files very small? Or would it be a good idea to make small flash movies? Or is there another manageable solution? If I use “link to file” a black page comes up with a player– is there a way to play the sound automatically and stay on the original page?
A lot of questions, but this really baffles me.
Truly grateful for any help with this, I’m feeling very stupid.Marten
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Thank you very much, it’s a bit clearer now. Mobile devices are not so important at this stage. I’ll experiment a litle…
Marten
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