RE: SMIL hyperlinking question

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oakes, Susan" <Susan.Oakes@usa.xerox.com>
To: "'Lloyd Rutledge'" <Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl>; <www-smil@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: [Moderator Action] RE: SMIL hyperlinking question


> Lloyd (and all)-
> I have tried defining the link as
>
> <a show="pause" href="...
>
> in the RealText file, and the "parent" SMIL presentation will not pause
> (although the link does work, and a new browser window does launch).  As
far
> as I can tell right now, the "show='pause'" attribute *only* works within
> the "parent" SMIL file itself.
>
> The code I have used is as follows (with comments):
>
> This link in the code below with the "show='pause'" attribute  works just
> fine within the SMIL file.  A new browser window launches, and the
> presentation pauses.
> <smil>
> ...
> <body>
> ...
> <img src="slideshowSKO.rp" region="title"
> fill="freeze" system-bitrate="20000"  title="Slideshow"><anchor
> href="http://www.it.rit.edu" coords="2,72,300,391" begin="01:40s"
> end="02:00s" show="pause"/></img>
> </body>
> ...
> </smil>
>
> This link in the code below (a RealText file) with the "show='pause'"
> attribute works only partially.  A new browser window launches, but the
> presentation does *not* pause.  Very telling is the fact that when I play
> the RealText file by itself and click the link, it doesn't pause either.
>
> <window type="teleprompter" width="440" height="50" duration="02:00
> bgcolor="white" wordwrap="true">
> ...
> <time begin="30"/>A common application of <a
> href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo" show="pause">SMIL</a>
> <time begin="33"/>is to display
> ...
> </window>
>
> Finally, the following code (when placed within the Realtext file) *will*
> pause the SMIL presentation, but doesn't link to anything.  I have tried
> nesting 2 <a href=""> statements and a bunch of other things like that, to
> no avail.
>
> <a href="command:pause()" target="_player">...</a>
>
> UGH! :-)
>
> Susan Oakes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Rutledge [mailto:Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:38 AM
> To: www-smil@w3.org; Oakes, Susan
> Subject: Re: SMIL hyperlinking question
>
>
>
> From: "Oakes, Susan" <Susan.Oakes@usa.xerox.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:54 PM
>
> > My question is this:  Is it possible to include a hyperlink to a webpage
> > in
> > a text file (a RealText file, to be specific) that launches a new
browser
> > window AND pauses the SMIL presentation in which it is contained?  So
far,
> > I
> > am able to:
> > >
> > - launch a new browser window with an "imagemap" temporal hyperlink
> > located
> > in the SMIL file and pause the SMIL presentation.
> > - launch a new browser window with a hyperlink in a RealText file (but
it
> > doesn't pause the "parent" SMIL presentation)
> > - and also to pause the SMIL presentation with a hyperlink in a RealText
> > file (but it doesn't "link" to anything - it just makes the "parent"
SMIL
> > presentation pause)
> > >
> > So far, I have not been able to find the answer to this question, so any
> > assistance that you might be able to provide would be very much
> > appreciated!
>
> Susan,
>
> This should be the result of defining your link element as
>
>   <a show="pause" href="...
>
> Have you tried this?  In any event, can you post the code you used?
>
> -Lloyd
>
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