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jimfish12
Inspiring
April 12, 2007
Question

Hide Browser Toolbars when Playing Movie?

  • April 12, 2007
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Greetings everyone!

I want more real estate for my published Captivate movie. I have to scale everything down to make it fit within a browser window without any scroll bars. My current sizing dimensions are okay, but I'd love to be able to hide or disable the toolbars in the browser in which my movie is playing. If I could do that, I can enlarge my project by about 15% and make it easier on the user. I can't find any sort of browser configuration settings in the Preferences section (or anywhere else). I'm familiary with the F11 key (hiding and displaying toolbars for a browser), but I can't make the assumption that all the users are familar with that function key and I don't really want to insert a caption box telling users to use the F11 key. I'd rather do it for them.

Is there a way to make this happen?

Thanks in advance,
Jim
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    TPK7254580
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2007
    Hi jimfish12,

    What you want to do is launch your Captivate HTML from an open HTML page.

    Place a link to your Captivate movie from a regular HTML page. The link on-click should trigger a browser window to open with te desired characteristics. Your movie will play in the new window. Be sure to include a button on your movie end frame to close the window.

    TPK
    J
    jimfish12Author
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2007
    Thanks everyone for the responses! I will be trying the suggestions today.

    No worries Shnoogins about the misunderstanding - it was most likely the way I wrote the original entry!
    KCWebPlaza-5meuTi
    KCWebPlaza-5meuTi
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2007
    In the web page where you're launching the Captivate movie from:

    1) In the <head> tags, put in this code to minimize the page margins:
    <style type="text/css">
    <!--
    body {
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    }
    -->
    </style>

    2) In the <head> tags, put in the JavaScript function. This will be called from the hyperlink used to launch the new window and leave out the browser toolbar, status bar, scroll bar, etc:
    <script type="text/JavaScript">
    <!--
    function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
    window.open(theURL,winName,features);
    }
    //-->
    </script>

    3) For the hyperlink that opens the Captivate movie, call the Javascript function. This is in the <body> tag of your html page:

    Open a Captivate movie in a <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('url','captivatewindow','width=900,height=740')">new browser window</a>.
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    Shnoogins
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2007
    Uggghh... I am a shmuck... LOL
    I need to go back to school and learn how to read.

    playbar does not = Browser toolbar...

    Sorry for the confusion. Doh!

    S
    Shnoogins
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2007
    quote:
    Originally posted by: jimfish12
    ...but I'd love to be able to hide or disable the toolbars in the browser in which my movie is playing.


    The user doesn't have to move the image around...
    The playbar is invisible... (if you want to hide it)

    Or, if you just want to disable it all together, go to:

    Project-
    Skin-
    Uncheck the Playback Control bar.

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    April 12, 2007
    Hi Jim

    I interpreted your issue a bit differently than Shnoogins did. From what I'm understanding, you really wish to control the browser window where the movie plays so it has maximum space available, no?

    First off, when you Publish your project, did you see the check box for "Full screen"? If not, give that a try and see if you like the result. What happens when you select this is that you end up with two HTML files. One you point your user at, and when they open it they see a link advising to click to see the movie in full screen mode.

    If you don't like the way that works, you will need to delve into JavaScript programming and construct your links that open the movie to behave similar to the way the Full screen option behaves.

    Cheers... Rick
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    Shnoogins
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2007
    Hi Jimfish,

    Paul at Raising Aimee has an invisible Playbar, that lets the users employ the space bar, and left/right arrow keys.

    Hope this helps you.

    J
    jimfish12Author
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2007
    Ummm.... okay, but that seems to be a secondary level alternative. I do appreciate the tip, but I would rather not make the user have to do anything regarding moving the image relative to the browser boundaries. I just want to turn off the toolbars to get more real estate.

    Jim
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