Re: Player.controls.play() doesn't work in IE, but works in Firefox

Well that's just going to break it for FireFox isn't it ?

FF doesn't have a mediaPlayer as a child of anything other than the
document - IE "helpfully" includes the window namespace in the
javascript object list so you're actually calling window.mediaPlayer
here.

But the embedded object isn't a child of the window object, it's a
child of the document object, so IE is defective (this has been known
for a long time BTW)


Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:36:01 -0700, Frances
<Frances@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In your javascript functions, try simply using

mediaPlayerObj.controls.play();
mediaPlayerObj.controls.pause();

etc and remove the document.getElementbyID part

Frances



"Robson WT" wrote:

I have made some tests with Javascript controlling a Windows Media Movie
embedding in a web page

<script language="javascript">
function playPauseVideo() {
document.getElementById('mediaPlayerObj').controls.play();
mediaPlayerObj.controls.play();
}

function stopVideo() {
document.getElementById('mediaPlayerObj').controls.stop();
}
</script>
<body>
<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
name="mediaPlayerObj" width="330" height="238" id="mediaPlayerObj">
<param name="uiMode" value="none">
<param name="url" value="luta.wmv">
<param name="autoStart" value="true">
</object>
<a href="javascript:;" onClick="playPauseVideo();"><img
src="imagens/play_button.gif" name="playPauseButton" width="26" height="25"
border="0" id="playPauseButton" /></a>
<a href="javascript:;" onClick="stopVideo();"><img
src="imagens/stop_button.gif" name="stopButton" width="20" height="19"
border="0" id="stopButton" /></a>

I've installed the Firefox Active X plugin. In FF, the movie starts playing.
I've cilcked in my customized Stop Button and the movie stops. I click in my
customized Play button and the movie plays.

In Internet Explorer the movie starts playing. I click on my customized stop
button and the movie stops, but I click on my customized play button and the
movie **doesn't*** play! Does anyone know why this happens?

I was using IE 6 with Windows Media Player 9. I've tried to upgrade to
Windows Media Player 10 but the problem persists.

Thanks for your attention

Robson.
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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