sounds on mouseover

[shaggy579]

In Dreamweaver I tried to add a subtle audible click to the rollovers on my site, but a new window opens up to play the .wav in a media player. How can I stop that from happening? Also, how would I preload the sounds to play them efficiently?
I am assuming that I may have to use flash, but I am hoping that dreamweaver has a simple way to do it that I have not yet found.
Thanx,
Steve

[paulhiles]

I think the problem is that you need to embed the sound in your page. If it's for a rollover, then it needs to be a tiny file.. as visitors can flick from one button to the other pretty rapidly! Also, make sure it's as innoccuous as possible.. nothing worse than an irritating sound on a website.

The following page has a straightforward step-through of the whole process.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_d...lay_sound.asp#

As you mention.. probably the simpler route is to use Flash... but at least with the above method, you won't be disturbing the minority of visitors who refuse to install a Flash plugin on their browser.

[paulhiles]

I also came across a page on a UK site (Codehelp.co.uk) which gives a good demo of sound files triggered by the onMouseOver event.
Check it out for yourself:
http://www.codehelp.co.uk/forum/sound2.html

[shaggy579]

I am now thinking that it may be a setting on my computer. Each time I rolled over a link, a new window would pop up with a tiny quicktime player in it..

[M0rtym0use]

as the various media players have developed, many now recognoise clicks in browsers to open media usyour default player for this program similar to the way ie opens word except not embedded.

if i remember correctly quicktime can be disabled from doing this but cannot remember how!

hope that puts you in the right direction..

MM

[shaggy579]

Ahhhh- control panel -> quicktime -> browser plugin -> audio only -> mime settings

Disable .wav and viola! no more new window

Thanx for the help

Unfortunately I think that is a default setting with the quicktime install...

[shaggy579]

Now that my nav buttons tick on my index page, is there an easy way to transfer that 'clickability' to those same buttons on the rest on the pages of the site without going to each buttons behavior properties (in dreamweaver)?

[paulhiles]

Originally Posted by shaggy579

Now that my nav buttons tick on my index page, is there an easy way to transfer that 'clickability' to those same buttons on the rest on the pages of the site without going to each buttons behavior properties (in dreamweaver)?

I think that's more a question of site management shaggy579. If I have an element such as header, footer, menu etc that I know will need to feature on each page, I would normally save that element as an include file, so no matter how many pages I need to change, I just need to update one file.

I seem to recall Dreamweaver has a library facility that allows you to save re-usable code, etc? I generally hand-code with TextPad or Ultra-Edit, so I'm not familiar with all Dreamweaver's features.