123485 - peepo.com - sounds and events

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[jonathan chetwynd]

It is essential for my students that they hear sounds when javascript events are
triggered, for instance onmouseover. It helps them to learn via cause and effect.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible with mozilla.
if so please point me to a uri.

if not why is it not?
when might it be?

thanks

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Mousing over most of the images i get an error in JS console:

Error: event is not defined
Source File: http://www.peepo.com/
Line: 28

Comment 2

[Vadim Berezniker]

hmm. should this bug is still be opened?

a sound can probably be plaid by embedding a wav into the page and letting the
right plugin handle it. 

Comment 3

[jonathan chetwynd]

I've been trying for about 4 years without success, so their is certainly an 
issue.

'probably' cuts no ice, either you have an example that works for you, or not.

Perhaps Aaronl could provide a comment?

Comment 4

[Roumen Petrov]

Attachment: add plugin and test

tested on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510

I have only XMMS and I can listen *.wav, *.mp3 and *.m3u files.
About "Plugger" plugin - some time crash (plugin, not browser).

Comment 5

[jonathan chetwynd]

also see bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151177

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

Thank you roumenpetrov, your suggested HTML works nicely.

Comment 7

[jonathan chetwynd]

I am sorry this is not good enough.
It does not work for me.
This system seems very broken in comparison with say flash sound.


Either one allows a pop up dialogue, for every event, which is not acceptable, 
if one unticks the 'ask me every time' box
the first 2 roumenpetrov examples work fine, however the others, on my system, 
now wont play but only ask one where to save the file.
I also dont understand how one can get the dialogue back, as naturally I dont 
want to be stuck with saving and opening every time.

also the player is not available in the background.

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

- use <embed> with autoplay="false" and hidden="true" to preload audios
- reserve a <embed> with loop="1" for playing audio
- in your onmouseover event, simply reset the src of the play embed item

see http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html

Comment 9

[jonathan chetwynd]

embed might be fine if you have an example page that works.
the link you point to states it is specific to quicktime.
in my experience most professionals state the <object> is not well supported.
and yes I have tried this a number of different ways without success.

ideally your example should work for a number of different browsers.

thanks again

Comment 10

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

what is the "bug" on this..?

Comment 11

[Michael Gabriel]

wtf is up here ?
the site uses document.all
this is tech evang and nothing more !
script is at http://www.peepo.com/scripts/main-breadcrumb-nav.js

Comment 12

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

document.all.mysound.src="http://www.peepo.com/sounds/words/games.wav"
tons of this..

document.getElementById("mysound").src="http://www.peepo.com/sounds/words/games.wav"
would be better...

Comment 13

[jonathan chetwynd]

I've changed the script, so that the 'games' link uses:

document.getElementById
("mysound").src="http://www.peepo.com/sounds/words/games.wav"

this did not produce any result using mozilla 1.1b, Kai and Michael:

do you have an example site that worls for you, ie plays a sound on mouseover, 
or other event, other than 'click'?

thanks

Comment 14

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

ah... 'mysound' is a <bgsound/>-Element, which only exists in MSIE. Try to use
yembed> or - even better <object>

Comment 15

[jonathan chetwynd]

function playmysound(thisSound){
 if (thisSound) {
 	var link=document.getElementById("myDummyforSoundonEvent")
	link.innerHTML= '<embed src="http://www.peepo.com/sounds/words/' + thisSound + 
'.wav" width="0.1" height="0.1" />'
 }
}

with <div id="myDummyforSoundonEvent"></div> in the body

http://www.peepo.com  and 
http://www.peepo.com/w3/sound-on-event/test.html
are working examples

is a method that  is known to work for IE6/Xp IE5.5/win98 IE5.2/mac and moz1.3a/mac
but only on mac,  though it is likely that other moz will also work. IT DOES NOT WORK for 
linux or PC.

why is it not possible to write to the .src  directly?
ie give the embed tag a name or id and then reference that,  and change the src

it is not good code, ie no object tags. IE6 does not let one(me) reference object tags by 
name or ID, to change the .innerHTML of an object tag...

equally if one adds an <object>...</object> one cannot use .innerHTML successfully with 
IE6

thanks

Comment 16

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Jon, if you want this to be assigned to browser general, you need to assign to
the default owners when changing the product/component. What plugin will play
.wav files anyway?

Comment 17

[Café Internet @ CELAS]

I am getting some sounds from http://www.peepo.com with moz 1.5rc1 on W2k. When
I look at the source, I see that a lot of the elements do not have .wav files
associatted with them.

WFM

Comment 18

[jonathan chetwynd]

Fixed as of moz 1.5rc1

checked again W2K and macOSx.2


Amazing what a team

CONGRATULATIONS

We may be able to switch to Mozilla across all our machines, and officially recommend Mozilla as 
our standard browser: have to see how SVG1.2 support is progressing :-)

Comment 19

[jonathan chetwynd]

Fixed as of moz 1.5rc1

checked again W2K and macOSx.2


Amazing what a team

CONGRATULATIONS

We may be able to switch to Mozilla across all our machines, and officially recommend Mozilla as 
our standard browser: have to see how SVG1.2 support is progressing :-)

did I forget a plug for http://www.peepo.co.uk
our all new SVG website for people with learning difficulties?
It requires <use> external graphic library file support, and will require event support when I can 
find a browser that supports SVG1.2 even partially

Comment 20

[Daniel Wang]

The correct resolution is wfm -> reopen

Comment 21

[Daniel Wang]

-> wfm