Re: embedded objects
Re: embedded objects
- Subject: Re: embedded objects
- From: "Richard L. Peskin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 13:55:29 -0400
Chuck --
On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 08:19 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
> The problem is the path to the midi file: u2_beautifulday.mid
>
> When this was a static page, this file was in the same directory as the
> html file so the relative path was fine. Now that this is in a WO
> page,
> the path is relative to the dynamic WO URL. It is going to be
> resolved to
> something like this:
>
> http//domain.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/AppName.woa/1/wo/
> 68F3uq7ZwjIJNKWjPMKrwM/
> u2_beautifulday.mid
Yes, I forgot the file is a context relative to the session ID.
>
> The easiest solution is to change the path to be relative to the
> webserver
> doc root, something like this:
> src="/multimedia/midi/u2_beautifulday.mid"
That didn't work for me. For example, my doc root is
/Library/WebServer/Documents. Putting the .mid file in the above
documents directory (or a subdirectory) and using either path relative
to Documents or even an absolute path, still results in the file not
being found.
>
> You could also make it a resource in your project and use
> WOEmbeddedObject
> and the resource manager to get to it. But that seems like a lot of
> work
> for little benefit in this case.
There may be little choice. It appears that the only option (not
involving WOEmbeddedObject) is to use a fully qualified URL. For
example:
---------------
<embed src="http://localhost/~rpeskin/u2_beautifulday.mid"; width="144"
height="60" autostart="true" loop="true" volume=200>
</embed>
<center><b>Siberian Husky sled dogs are my real interest.</b>
<p><IMG SRC="http://localhost/~rpeskin/sledteam2.gif"; BORDER=2
height=508 width=400></center>
The current time is <B><I><FONT COLOR="#008000"><WEBOBJECT
NAME=String1></WEBOBJECT></FONT></I></B><P>This page has been viewed
<B><I><WEBOBJECT NAME=String2></WEBOBJECT></I></B> times.</P><WEBOBJECT
NAME=Hyperlink1>Refresh Time</WEBOBJECT></BODY>
-------------------
Works correctly. However:
------------------
<embed src="/Volumes/Users/rpeskin/Sites/u2_beautifulday.mid"
width="144" height="60" autostart="true" loop="true" volume=200>
</embed>
<center><b>Siberian Husky sled dogs are my real interest.</b>
<p><IMG SRC="/Volumes/Users/rpeskin/Sites/sledteam2.gif" BORDER=2
height=508 width=400></center>
The current time is <B><I><FONT COLOR="#008000"><WEBOBJECT
NAME=String1></WEBOBJECT></FONT></I></B><P>This page has been viewed
<B><I><WEBOBJECT NAME=String2></WEBOBJECT></I></B> times.</P><WEBOBJECT
NAME=Hyperlink1>Refresh Time</WEBOBJECT></BODY>
---------------
Does not work correctly; neither the gif image nor the midi file are
recognized.
(Above results are using WO 5.2.1, Java 1.41 and the development
environment with a fixed port.)
While the above example is contrived, it does point out that the use of
"pre-existing" html code in Main.wo > Main.html can be problematic. In
any event, I haven't found the documentation that describes just what
is acceptable in the way of "external" file paths. (The issues are of
interest when one needs to preserve some of the "traditional" html when
converting a site to WebObjects. A lot of the "traditional" html was
built with tools like Dreamweaver and is a pain to recreate in WO.)
--dick peskin
>
> Chuck
>
>
> At 07:21 PM 02/05/2003 -0400, Richard L. Peskin wrote:
>> In the code snippet below I am inserting a couple of WOComponents into
>> a static html page. (Other static page items not listed.) The whole
>> page works correctly except that the midi file never plays although
>> the
>> QT control is shown on the page. Should I expect the midi file to play
>> or do I need to use WOEmbeddedObject components?
>> (This exercise arises out of the attempt to integrate WOComponents
>> into
>> an existing page.)
>> ---------------
>> <embed src="u2_beautifulday.mid" width="144" height="60"
>> autostart="true" loop="true" volume=200>
>> </embed>
>> <WEBOBJECT NAME=String1></WEBOBJECT></FONT></I></B><P>This page has
>> been viewed <B><I><WEBOBJECT NAME=String2></WEBOBJECT></I></B>
>> times.</P><WEBOBJECT NAME=Hyperlink1>Refresh Time</WEBOBJECT>
>> --------------------
>> --dick peskin
>>
>>
>> Richard L. Peskin, RLP Consulting, Londonderry, VT
>> http://www.rlpcon.com
>> http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~peskin
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> --
>
> Chuck Hill email@hidden
> Global Village Consulting Inc.
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>
Richard L. Peskin, RLP Consulting, Londonderry, VT
http://www.rlpcon.com
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~peskin
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