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kdt · Guest

Hi.

For arcane reasons I'm builing a player in javascript, then using dynamic html to sometimes write the player. It works just fine here, but on our clients machine it refuses to load the media. It builds the player, but there is no file loaded - right click and no properties in the popup menu.

I'm really stuck - it must be a security issue, but what. They are running XP Pro, which is one of the systems I'm testing it on here, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I've been through they's settings - everything is running locally on the machine using IE in Kiosk Mode, so no network, internet, cross platform or conectivity issues.

The file plays fine inside a stand alone windows media player, or when I directly write the object tag without the javascript.

Here's the code boiled down:
<HTML>
<SCRIPT language='JavaScript'>
function buildMediaPlayer(strURL){
var strObjectText;
strObjectText = "<OBJECT ID='mediaPlayer' ";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "CLASSID='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' Height='457' Width='609' ";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "CODEBASE='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "STANDBY=''";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "TYPE='application/x-oleobject' >";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "<PARAM NAME='showControls' VALUE='false'> ";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "<PARAM NAME='Loop' VALUE='true'>"
strObjectText = strObjectText + "<PARAM NAME='animationatStart' VALUE='false'> ";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "<PARAM NAME='transparentatStart' VALUE='true'> ";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "<PARAM NAME='autoStart' VALUE='true'>";
strObjectText = strObjectText + "<PARAM name='FileName' value='";
strObjectText = strObjectText + strURL + "'>"
strObjectText = strObjectText + "</OBJECT>";

return strObjectText;
}</SCRIPT>
<BODY>
<DIV ID="MediaDiv">
<P ID="Media">
</DIV>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
Media.innerHTML = buildMediaPlayer("airplaneproc.mpg");
</SCRIPT>
</BODY></HTML>

However this works just fine, unfortunately not usable:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<OBJECT ID='mediaPlayer'
CLASSID='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
Height='457' Width='609'
CODEBASE='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701' STANDBY='' TYPE='application/x-oleobject'>
<PARAM NAME='showControls' VALUE='false'>
<PARAM NAME='Loop' VALUE='true'>
<PARAM NAME='animationatStart' VALUE='false'>
<PARAM NAME='transparentatStart' VALUE='true'>
<PARAM NAME='autoStart' VALUE='true'>
<PARAM name='FileName' value='airplaneproc.mpg'>
</OBJECT>
</BODY></HTML>

Any help, pointers, tips greatly appreciated

keith

kdt · Guest

Additional note, I've also tried:
<DIV ID="MediaDiv">
</DIV>

<script>
document.getElementById("MediaDiv").innerHTML = buildMediaPlayer("airplaneproc.mpg");
</SCRIPT>

Which works locally but not on the site.

Keith

Neil Smith [MVP Digital M · Guest

Are you using an xhtml declaration on this document ?
You cannot set innerHTML to a tag pair without closing the tag :

<DIV ID="MediaDiv">
<P ID="Media">
</DIV>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
Media.innerHTML = buildMediaPlayer("airplaneproc.mpg");
</SCRIPT>

It's just not valid XHTML (or even, valid HTML !)

Cheers - Neil

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:30:02 -0700, kdt <kdt@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

Neil Smith [MVP Digital M · Guest

This line is giong to cause a javascript error. You must test these
things with error reporting turned on in your browser or your scripts
will fail to run silently :

kdt · Guest

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

kdt · Guest

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

Neil Smith [MVP Digital M · Guest

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:27:01 -0700, kdt <kdt@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

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