Re: External linking only?

Jack Jansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.smil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Which SMIL player have you used?

I couldn't play the document because I don't have the media, but I  
don't see anything obviously wrong with it. In other words: I believe  
(from code inspection) that the document should indeed switch between  
showing section1_image and the rest (everything in par1) when you  
click on section1_image or menu1_image. And the audio should indeed  
continue all the while.

I can suggest two course of action:
1. Try in different players (RealPlayer, Ambulant, GRiNS); or
2. Strip down the document to the basic interaction (the audio,  
section1_image and menu1_image) and work from there.

But: it could also be that there is indeed some problem with the  
intricate details of how restart semantics work, I'm not an expert in  
that area...

On 11-jun-2007, at 16:12, daad@@libero..it wrote:

>
> Hello,
> i'm trying to do an interactive presentation with something like a  
> menu and i wish to show the section elements according on what user  
> choose from menu, and then have the chance to get back to menu.
> The question is: is it possible only creating external href to  
> other smil files?
> I wanted to have a background soundtrack that keep playing wherever  
> the user is, if i use external href i couldn't keep the soundtrack  
> playing (or at least i have to restart it always).
> I tried to use one file to achieve what i need, without success. I  
> put the menu elements into a <par> group and then i expect they  
> stop when the <par> group end and they start again when the <par>  
> is started again.
> But it acts weird: the following code hide the par1 elements and  
> show section1 image, but when i click on section1 i would expect  
> that par1 elements restarts as first time: they don't. Petal starts  
> at the same time and after a little while every element of par1  
> disappear.
>
> Anybody can help me understanding how interactive presentations  
> works? Any code example would be much appreciated, it's 3 days i'm  
> googling around and couldn't find a decente interactive example.  
> Thanks.
>
> <smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language">
> 	<head>
> 		<meta name="title" content="test"/>
> 		<layout>
> 	  	<root-layout background-color="white" width="800" height="650"/>
> 	  	<region id="gong" title="gong_region" width="450" height="450"  
> left="175" top="100" z-index="1"/>
> 	  	<region id="petals" title="petals" width="750" height="650"  
> left="100" top="0" z-index="3"/>
> 	  	<region id="menu1" title="menu1" width="200" height="200"  
> left="0" top="0" z-index="2"/>
> 	  	<region id="menu2" title="menu2" width="200" height="200"  
> left="300" top="400" z-index="2"/>
> 		</layout>
> 		
> 		<transition id="fade_0" dur="1s" type="fade"/>
>   	<transition id="fade_1" dur="2s" type="fade"/>
>   	<transition id="fade_2" dur="3s" type="fade"/>
>   	
> 	</head>
> 	<body>
> 		<par>
> 			<!-- soundtrack -->
> 			<audio id="soundtrack" src="sounds/Micaco_Honya- 
> Taneishinshin.mp3" begin="1s"/>
> 			
> 				<!-- menu -->
> 				<par id="par1"  
> begin="soundtrack.begin;section1_image.activateEvent"  
> end="menu1_image.activateEvent">
> 					<!-- gong -->
> 					<img id="gong_small" src="images/gong_small.jpg" region="gong"  
> transIn="fade_1" begin="1s" end="gong_small.activateEvent"/>
> 					<!-- menu1 -->
> 					<img id="menu1_image" src="images/test.jpg" region="menu1"  
> transIn="fade_1" transOut="fade_1" begin="1s"  
> end="menu1_image.activateEvent"/>
> 					<!-- petal 1 -->
> 					<img id="petal1" src="images/sakura1.gif" region="petals"  
> begin="1s" end="menu1_image.activateEvent">
> 						<animate dur="10" attributeName="top" from="-50" to="655"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    		<animate dur="2" attributeName="left"  
> values="150;175;193;200;193;175;150;125;107;100;107;125;150"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    	</img>
> 		    	<!-- petal 2 -->
> 		    	<img id="petal2" src="images/sakura2.gif" region="petals"  
> begin="3.2s" end="menu1_image.activateEvent">
> 						<animate dur="10" attributeName="top" from="-50" to="655"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    		<animate dur="2" attributeName="left"  
> values="350;375;393;400;393;375;350;325;307;300;307;325;350"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    	</img>
> 		    	<!-- petal 3 -->
> 		    	<img id="petal3" src="images/sakura1.gif" region="petals"  
> begin="6.5s" end="menu1_image.activateEvent">
> 						<animate dur="10" attributeName="top" from="-50" to="655"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    		<animate dur="2" attributeName="left"  
> values="250;275;293;300;293;275;250;225;207;200;207;225;250"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    	</img>
> 		    	<!-- petal 4 -->
> 		    	<img id="petal4" src="images/sakura2.gif" region="petals"  
> begin="8.7s" end="menu1_image.activateEvent">
> 						<animate dur="10" attributeName="top" from="-50" to="655"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    		<animate dur="2" attributeName="left"  
> values="50;75;93;100;93;75;50;25;7;0;7;25;50" repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    	</img>
> 		    	<!-- petal 5 -->
> 		    	<img id="petal5" src="images/sakura2.gif" region="petals"  
> begin="4.9s" end="menu1_image.activateEvent">
> 						<animate dur="10" attributeName="top" from="-50" to="655"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    		<animate dur="2" attributeName="left"  
> values="550;575;593;600;593;575;550;525;507;500;507;525;550"  
> repeatDur="indefinite"/>
> 		    	</img>
> 				</par>
> 				
> 				<!-- section1 -->
> 				<par>
> 					<img id="section1_image" src="images/test.jpg" region="menu2"  
> begin="menu1_image.activateEvent+1"  
> end="section1_image.activateEvent"/>
> 				</par>
>
> 		</par>
> 	</body>
> </smil>
>
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