asp.net and windows media player

#1

Hello,

I am attempting to embed a WMP object in a web page using VB.net. The
following code works in a straight html page, but gives a
"Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'Player1' is undefined"
error when the button is clicked.

Can any one tell me what I am doing wrong?

<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<OBJECT id="Player1" height="300" width="300"
classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" VIEWASTEXT>
<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="video/TimeCodeTest.wmv">
</OBJECT>

<INPUT type="button" value="Button" onclick="goTime();">

<script>
function goTime(){
Player1.controls.currentPosition = '90';
}
</script>
</form>
</body>
</HTML>

Thanks !

#2

The problem is that the WMP is inside the form tag, and as such must be
reffered to in the javascript as document.forms[0].player1

"Eveready" wrote:

Quote:

Hello,

I am attempting to embed a WMP object in a web page using VB.net. The
following code works in a straight html page, but gives a
"Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'Player1' is undefined"
error when the button is clicked.

Can any one tell me what I am doing wrong?

body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"
form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server"
OBJECT id="Player1" height="300" width="300"
classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" VIEWASTEXT
PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="video/TimeCodeTest.wmv"
/OBJECT

INPUT type="button" value="Button" onclick="goTime();"

script
function goTime(){
Player1.controls.currentPosition = '90';
}
/script
/form
/body
/HTML

Thanks !

#3

Client side, away from .Net, that's not true.

A simple...

document.getElementById("myPlayerID").properties

....once the element has rendered should work regardless of where the
<object> tag sits in the markup. True in IE you can reference the
element direct simply using it's ID like your initial example, but it's
not standards compliant and a bad habbit to get into.

Also..

document.forms["formname"].elements["elementname"].property

....shouldn't work either as it is referring to the name attribute, no
the ID. Perhaps .Net provides a name for you automatically (it
shouldn't, that's a deprecated attribute). IE does have some "oddities"
though when handling names/ids on the page so perhaps that is going on,
although it shouldn't be relied on and no other browser deals with these
attributes in this way.

So barring IE's oddness, personally I would stick with the w3c method,
getElementsById.

Hope this helps.

Ric.

Eveready wrote:

Quote:

The problem is that the WMP is inside the form tag, and as such must be
reffered to in the javascript as document.forms[0].player1

"Eveready" wrote:

Hello,

I am attempting to embed a WMP object in a web page using VB.net. The
following code works in a straight html page, but gives a
"Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'Player1' is undefined"
error when the button is clicked.

Can any one tell me what I am doing wrong?

body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"
form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server"
OBJECT id="Player1" height="300" width="300"
classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" VIEWASTEXT
PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="video/TimeCodeTest.wmv"
/OBJECT

INPUT type="button" value="Button" onclick="goTime();"

script
function goTime(){
Player1.controls.currentPosition = '90';
}
/script
/form
/body
/HTML

Thanks !

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