Re: FLASH: Launching a Quicktime Movie from Flash???

[Eric Blanpied]

David Sparks wrote:


> Hello all.

> 

> I am developing a Flash piece that I would like to have launch a Quicktime

> movie when a button is clicked (using the Quicktime player of course).

> 

> What would the command be necessary to do this?

> 


QT has a "QuickTimePlayer" target for just this sort of thing. The problem

is that the "QuickTimePlayer" target isn't understood by the browsers:

quicktime needs to see it (in the QT Plug or elsewhere).


You could do this with a brief re-direct kind of thing:


Have your flash movie call a url to a page with a qt movie (could be hidden

if you like). This QT movie has a auto-href track which triggers a url with

a target of "QuickTimePlayer".


Of course, if you know that you're on a system with QT installed (sounds

like it if you're trying to call QTPLayer), you could stick your flash file

into a QT movie as a flash track and then target "QuickTimePlayer" from the

url in the Flash action.




-- 

Eric Blanpied

QuickTime

Apple Computer, Inc.




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