Object problem

Jack Michaelson posted this at 10:35 — 31st March 2000.

Joined: Dec 1999

Hi everyone,

I want the visitors to my site (not online yet) to decide whether they want a backgroundsound or not. They even can choose what kind of sound they want via a <select>.

The code is below:

&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;
var aySound = new Array();
aySound[0] = "silence.wav";
aySound[1] = "groovearmada.wav";
IE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && document.all)? 1:0;
NS = (navigator.appName=="Netscape" && navigator.plugins["LiveAudio"])? 1:0;
ver4 = IE|NS? 1:0;
onload=auPreload;

function auPreload() 
{
	if (!ver4) return;
	if (NS) auEmb = new Layer(0,window);
	else 
		{
			Str = "&lt;DIV ID='auEmb' STYLE='position:absolute;'&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;";
			document.body.insertAdjacentHTML("BeforeEnd",Str);
		}
	var Str = '';
	for (i=0;i&lt;aySound.length;i++)
	Str += "&lt;EMBED SRC='"+aySound[i]+"' LOOP='TRUE' AUTOSTART='FALSE' HIDDEN='TRUE'&gt;"
	if (IE) auEmb.innerHTML = Str;
	else 
		{
			auEmb.document.open();
			auEmb.document.write(Str);
			auEmb.document.close();
		}
	auCon=IE? document.all.auIEContainer:auEmb;
	auCon.control = auCtrl;
}

function auCtrl(whSound,play) 
{
	if (IE) this.src = play? aySound[whSound]:'';
	else eval("this.document.embeds[whSound]." + (play? "play()":"stop()"))
}

function playSound(whSound) 
{ 
	if (window.auCon) auCon.control(whSound,true); 
}

function stopSound(whSound) 
{ 
	if (window.auCon) auCon.control(whSound,false); 
}

function okdan()
{
	var noiz=document.form1.selekd.options[document.form1.selekd.selectedIndex].text;
	if (noiz=='Select backgroundsound')
	playSound(0);
	if (noiz=='--&gt; No sound &lt;--')
	playSound(0);
	if (noiz=='Groove Armada')
	playSound(1);
}
&lt;/SCRIPT&gt;
&lt;/HEAD&gt;
&lt;BODY background="b.gif"&gt;

&lt;form name=form1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;

&lt;td&gt;
&lt;Select Name="selekd" onchange="okdan()" class="ucselect"&gt;
&lt;option selected&gt;Select backgroundsound&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option&gt;--&gt; No sound &lt;--&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option&gt;Groove Armada&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
(...)

I got 2 problems:
-IE says: Aucon is no object, which I do not get at all, cause NS accepts this object.
-NS does not loop the wav-file, although I say: LOOP='TRUE'

Who helps me out???
Thanx in advance,

Jack

By the way: you can watch it 'work' at
http://www6.ewebcity.com/uppershelf/b.htm

[This message has been edited by Jack Michaelson (edited 31 March 2000).]
[code] was ommited, just put it back... -Mark

[Edited by Mark Hensler on Feb. 06, 2001 at 01:14 AM]

Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)

Vincent Puglia posted this at 22:01 — 1st April 2000.

They have: 634 posts

Joined: Dec 1999

Hi,

Don't really do sound, but...

Offhand, I would say Navigator is choking on the quotes. Try escaping instead of putting doubles inside singles inside doubles.

Regarding IE:
If this is where the error-message is:

auCon=IE? document.all.auIEContainer:auEmb;
check the spelling and case;

Vinny

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Jack Michaelson posted this at 09:38 — 3rd April 2000.

He has: 1,733 posts

Joined: Dec 1999

Thanx Vinny,

Gonna try that.
Greetz,

Jack

Jack Michaelson posted this at 08:40 — 4th April 2000.

He has: 1,733 posts

Joined: Dec 1999

No Vinny,

it won't work.
Who's gonna help me??

Jack

Lloyd Hassell posted this at 02:25 — 5th April 2000.

They have: 231 posts

Joined: Feb 2000

I don't know much about embedded sounds but you might want to try loop="-1".

auCon has not been specified as an object so when you try added a property you get an error. Use the following:

auCon = new Object();

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