Link to Web

[Geoff Hodgson]

Guys,
I have quite a few Camtasia productions on our university server, all accessible as web links. What I would like to do is create a placeholder in Xara Designer Pro 6, use the Link to Web option but have the link play inside the placeholder such that a user can still use any page buttons to navigate back to the Home page. I have tried all the options and the link seems only open in a new browser page with no means to get back to Xara unless you select New Window in 'Open link in' then it will open a new browser window which can be closed to reveal the xara web page. Is it possible to have a web link play inside a placeholder?
Geoff

[gwpriester]

You can do this with an iframe. See this tutorial.

[xufa]

What I would like to do is create a placeholder in Xara Designer Pro 6

Camtasia outputs .mp4 for the web, so use this code in your placeholder.
Replace video URL with your own, replace the video dimensions with your own;

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" 
WIDTH="640" HEIGHT="360" >
<PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="http://video.techsmith.com/camtasia/family/overview/Camtasia_Family_Overview_Video_2010_v001.mp4">
<PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="controller" value="true">
<EMBED SRC="QTMimeType.pntg" TYPE="image/x-macpaint"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download" QTSRC="http://video.techsmith.com/camtasia/family/overview/Camtasia_Family_Overview_Video_2010_v001.mp4" 
WIDTH="640" HEIGHT="360" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="true">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Make the placeholder the same size as your video.

[Geoff Hodgson]

Many thanks for thst useful info. Never considered iframe before!
Geoff

[Geoff Hodgson]

Thanks very much for this. I'll give this a try. Thanks for your time and effort

Geoff