Pause in Full Screen - help please

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From: Harley Richardson (hrichardson_at_espresso.co.uk)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Date: 30 Nov 2004 10:22:17 -0800

    I'm trying to discover what factors are involved in deciding which
    controls pause the video in Full Screen. I've seen the following in
    different circumstances but haven't managed to pin them down to a
    given OS, browser or version of WMP:

    1) Single click - pause Full Screen (I think pre-WMP7 classid only)
    2) Single click - exit Full Screen
    3) Single click - no effect, double-click - exit Full Screen

    Also the following sometimes work:

    Escape - exit Full Screen
    Ctrl-P - pause Full Screen

    Looking through the archives it seems that F9/F10 should also pause
    the video in Full Screen, but I've not seen this in action.

    Can anybody help with this?

    The reason I'm looking into this is that we provide video (embedded in
    html) to schools who often use it in full screen mode on interactive
    whiteboards. Previously we used the old ActiveMovie classid which
    enabled teachers to easily single-click pause on a given frame. We're
    in the process of updating to the WMP7+ classid but this means the
    context menu has to be used (which is a lot more fiddly, especially on
    a whiteboard) and in case 2) above it won't even give them the chance
    to use the context menu. Plus, many 4 year old kids will struggle
    using a context menu.

    I understand the controls can be added in XP by setting uimode="mini"
    or "full"- but we'd rather avoid this as we have our own custom
    controls. Also many of our users are on previous versions of Windows
    so this doesn't really help them.

    Any tips or advice on getting around this would be much appreciated!!

    Thanks

    Harley Richardson

    Our new embed code is as follows:

    <object id='player'
    classid=CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
    standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...'
    type='application/x-oleobject' width='355' height='288'>
    <param name='url' value='path/filename.mpg'>
    <param name='AutoStart' value='true'>
    <param name='uiMode' value='none'>
    </object>

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