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Mouseover Sound: QT keeps opening 1

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lexus

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One of the Dreamweaver MX 2004 behaviors I teach in a class is the mouseover sound. On some of the computers, when you mouseover, it goes to a new page and I either get a broken Quicktime image, or Quicktime opens and plays the file. I can't figure out what settings to change so it plays the way it is supposed to: on mouseover. Our techs here are no help.

I have unchecked just about all the preferences in Quicktime. I have right-clicked on a wav file and told it to always open in Windows Media Player. Quicktime STILL takes over. These are brand-new Dells in a lab setting and are imaged to be the same. Of course, it works on some and not others.

Any help with solving this dilemma would be appreciated. I just don't know what to do and can't find a solution any other place.

Thanks in advance.
Lexus...

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can u give us a link???

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I have right-clicked on a wav file and told it to always open in Windows Media Player"
- try using windows explorer and do :
Tools-->FOlder Options--> FileTypes
and re-configure it there

Side note:
WAV is not exactly the best format for web anyhow, try experminenting in direction of flash or MP3 or MIDI...
HTH
ALl the best!

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vbkris and lebisol:

There is no link since it is just an exercise I teach in two of my Dreamweaver classes. It seems to work on some machines but not others.

It works on my desktop, my laptop, and my computers at home. I have always used wav files for showing this behavior in past classes and it has always worked with no problem. I can't figure out why it works on some machines but not on others since they are all imaged the same.

This is just a silly little exercise with a duck graphic and a quack.wav to show them something "cute" with Dreamweaver, Yes, these are adults but they need to be kept amused when learning as well as younger students!

I know this is a hard question since it seems to deal more with PC setup then Dreamweaver but I really appreciate any brainstorming and will try any suggestions!

Thanks!

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Hi Lexus!
My best guess would be that one point someone was using that machine to view some QuikcTime files (Mov etc) and were asked to "Update QT"....upon update QT could have taken the file association; also, when trying to open a file QT will ask for "re-association of files"......
users could have have agreed just so they are not bothered.

but NONE of this should matter.....
check this:

where my QT is actually purposly configured to open WAV files....
If you can hear it OK from the link above then we need to see the code....or feel free to "lift up the skirt" from the link above and compare...
All the best!

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The machines are reimaged nightly and are SUPPOSED to be identical (which they never are!).

Here's the code. All that is done is the man typing image is inserted. The Behaviors panel is opened and the sound is added through the "+" sign there. Sure makes a lot of code for one thing! This is the seond one I have them do in class.

As I said, it works on most machines but there are a few that QuickTime JUST takes over, even though I have deleted everything I can in the preferences of QT. The next step is to delete QuickTime forever!!

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_controlSound(x, _sndObj, sndFile) { //v3.0
var i, method = "", sndObj = eval(_sndObj);
if (sndObj != null) {
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape') method = "play";
else {
if (window.MM_WMP == null) {
window.MM_WMP = false;
for(i in sndObj) if (i == "ActiveMovie") {
window.MM_WMP = true; break;
} }
if (window.MM_WMP) method = "play";
else if (sndObj.FileName) method = "run";
} }
if (method) eval(_sndObj+"."+method+"()");
else window.location = sndFile;
}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_controlSound('play','document.CS1092228333702','typing.wav')"><img src="computer.gif" width="215" height="190" border="0"></a>
<EMBED NAME='CS1092228333702' SRC='typing.wav' LOOP=false
AUTOSTART=false MASTERSOUND HIDDEN=true WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0></EMBED>
</body>
</html>

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yap, code is good from my perspetive
so last thing to check on those machines is:
start IE:
Tools-->Internet Options -->[Adbanced Tab]
MultiMedia
o Play Sounds in WebPages


other than this I would suggest removing the QT *for test purposes from those machines in question.
All the best!

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Thanks! You have helped me before, Lebisol, and I appreciate your knowledge.

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I am glad it worked out, keep it up!
After all, what is the use of knowledge if it is not passed on ;-)
All the best!

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