Hello Mark, Thank you for your detailed response, This is a big help... The WebXtra from tabuleiro.com looks great. I will take a closer look. I.E. 4.0 or higher requirement does not seem like a problem, most Users likely would be higher than this any way I would hope.
Question, Do you know of a good way to pre-determine if a person has Internet access or not from lingo? Thanks again Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark R. Jonkman Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Web Broswer in Director MX Hi Tom Couple of issues you may need to be aware of. There are several versions of the web browser control out there and it may depend on whether you end user is web connected and has the latest version of IE to really work well. However there is an xtra out there for displaying a browser within Director on windows machines. But by the looks of it, it is also dependent on having at least IE 4.0 or higher installed on the endusers machine. I believe that requirement would also be required of using the web browser control by itself. http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/products/web/whatis.htm its about $199.95 Either way, you need to be careful of the type of content that you will be showing as well. I don't believe that Shockwave or Flash content can accurately be displayed in the web browser control or the webxtra from tabuleiro. I think there is some sort of interference with the Director runtime but I could be way off base on that so you may need to explore it a bit. You may also wish to study the documentation on using an active-x control in Director. I believe there is some documentation on macr site concerning this as well. Do a search on active-x under the director support portion of the Macr. site. One that jumps out is: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/d65/tutorial/activex/cont rol_ xtra06.html I know this probably doesn't completely solve your problem, but it might point you in the right direction. You may also want to search the archives for Direct-L at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/ to see if there is any additional info and suggestions there. I know the issue has come up from time to time in the past couple of years so you might be able to get some additional direction from searching that archive.. searching on "browser control" for the year 2001 returned 122 hits. Searching on Active-X return only 2 hits.. so watch what you search on. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Richardson > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 3:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: <lingo-l> Web Broswer in Director MX > > > Hello, > > Can some one please help me? > > I simply want to place an in-bedded web browser on the stage > And automatically go to an internet URL. I would like to flag a custom > error message if the person is not on line at the time they click > the button that takes them to the online website. > > A few extra questions: > > 1) > do I use an activeX control browser? When I try this and place the icon > on the stage nothing comes up? > > 2) > Am I asking to do something that will cause compatibility problems with > older O.S.'s ? (windows only) > example win98 and up? > 3) > Is putting a web browser inside a director piece considered a bad idea? > Or is it O.K. > > I have tried a few things with no luck, can any one help me go in the > right direction? > > Thank you for your help > Tom > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, > go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to > the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping > with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
