Re: multiple begin/end times on <par>/<seq>/<excl>

Yep, something like that.  Also read up on the Resetting element state
section
(http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-timing.html#Timing-ResettingElementState).

On Wed, Sep 25 2002 "Sigurd Lerstad" wrote:

> 
> Hello, thank you for answering
> 
> Okay, I was misled by statements like this in the spec:
> 
> "A child element may not be active before the beginning, nor after the end
> of the parent simple duration"
> 
> So the children of a time container are restricted to the parent simple
> time, so if the parent repeats, the children doesn't know, for them it would
> just be as if the parent had just begun, and they will restart from 0 ?
> 
> So while playing, when a parent propagates it's current/active time down to
> the children, for a repeating time container, it would propagate times
> something like this?
> 
> |parent simple dur--|
> |parent active dur-----------------------|
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (time in seconds) (the children
> are told to seek to this time, relative to parent)
> 
> (this is of course simplified)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> --
> Sigurd Lerstad
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sjoerd Mullender" <sjoerd@acm.org>
> To: "Sigurd Lerstad" <sigler@bredband.no>
> Cc: <www-smil@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: multiple begin/end times on <par>/<seq>/<excl>
> 
> 
> > Yes, they can have multiple begin and end times, and they can also
> > repeat.  They also do have an active duration defined.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 25 2002 "Sigurd Lerstad" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Just want to clarify some things...
> > >
> > > Can <seq>/<par>/<excl>
> > >
> > > have multiple begin/end times ?
> > >
> > > If I understand correctly, time containers don't use the notion of
> > > active duration, they just use simple duration ? So they can't repeat
> > > either? (Having said that, maybe they can't have 'end' attribute either,
> > > since simple duration calculation doesn't use 'end' ?)
> > >
> > > thanks,
> >
> > -- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
> 

-- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>

Received on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 06:47:39 UTC