demo movies

[adwb]

where would I find Active X settings?
Alistair

[adwb]

found activex and reset to low but the boxes are still greyed out
alistair

[Mike S]

mine work just fine windows xp pro sp2 all updates are upto date. activex is set to mid. dont know what everyone else is doing. are yousure the movies were downloaded are installed? just a thought sometimes the most obviuos is what is over looked.

[John Rayner]

okay... Here it is... A small web page that calls all but one movie. I do not have that movie installed (still running the beta here at home) I will leave that to someone else. (Photo Composition Note: This movie is only available on the Xara X1 CD)

Just unzip everything into the xara movie directory and open the html page. If you have your xara movies installed in a different directory then the default "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara X1\HelpAndSupport\ENG\" do a search and replace with the proper directory.

Maybe Gary would add this to the shareware page.

[Egg Bramhill]

Cheers John
When I first unzipped it the buttons wouldn't work. However, on copying the contents of the file, creating a new one named 'XaraMovies' on C root directory, and pasting there, it worked as expected. Then just made a shortcut from the desktop.
I don't know why it wouldn't work originally. We'll have to wait and see if it's just me.
One other point. You say that if your movies are installed in a different directory than the default, do a search and replace wth the proper directory. Surely this won't work as your source code uses the default directory?

A HREF="C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara X1\HelpAndSupport\ENG\selhands_small.avi"

Thank you for all the effort!
Egg

[John Rayner]

hi Egg,

If, for instance, the movies are installed in F:\somewhere\other\than\default\program files\Xara\Xara X1\HelpAndSupport\ENG\ then all one has to do is open the .html file with wordpad, do a replace (cntrl-h) use the following search string "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara X1\HelpAndSupport\ENG\" and replace it with your directory "F:\somewhere\other\than\default\program files\Xara\Xara X1\HelpAndSupport\ENG\". the replace action will find the wrong location and replace it with the proper location. The zip file contains the following files...

butoff.gif
buton.gif
movie.css
index.html

and

buttons.xar

index.html is the page with all the links. buton.gif and butoff.gif are the buttons used in the page. movie.css is the cascading style sheet that makes the text look all nice and pretty. These should be in the same directory as the index.html. I also included the source file for the buttons, buttons.xar

All are welcome to reformat, change, edit the page to their desire.

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi John
Ahh, that's what you meant. I read it wrong!
Egg

[John Rayner]

Started playing with the file last night after watching all the movies. Going to do a word wrap and put three columns of links in. Did not like all the scrolling...