Thanks!

Got your book recently. I am truly stuck at a critical part of my revised website. While I have completed the entire site coming form an existing template I need one final thing.. To be able to have 4 buttons trigger playback of 4 separate videos as part of my demo page. As this site is written in script2 I need some code to do this relatively simple task. To date I have had absolutely no luck
I have converted my mov to flvs . tried to put a video instance (the transparent kind) on my stage but no luck.
I just need the simple code to tell the buttons to play an flv in a separate window . For some reason this is truly alchemy in Flash
Not an issue in dreamweaver. Sorry I have no coding experience and don’t do this for a living. Any help would be great
mike b

But I have one problem when using the seek function in browser(ie7). sometimes it seems to stop when we seek beyond 50% and when we seek back it plays and the progress bar stops in the middle(the whole song is completed). do I have to do any thing to avoid this problem?.

I don’t wanna say its not good to do so… i’m just curious. memory concerns?

1) With the radio, the physical size of the radio imposes a fixed limit on how many items are accessible. There is a trade-off between having more items and fewer modes vs having an overwhelming number of buttons. There comes a point where the number of buttons makes it hard to find stuff, so while having more buttons may make better use of muscle memory and reduce modal errors, there is a reasonable limit to where it becomes silly with the number of buttons. At that point, you need to decide which features are really important. Modes are a symptom of trying to fit too many features into a device.

2) A tactile interface has more opportunity for differentiating controls than does a screen menu. In addition to grouping, colour, and labels, they can also take advantage of button shape, texture, and haptic feedback. Control positioning on a physical device also provides clues as to its function. An on-screen menu can potentially have a couple of hundred items representing a diverse and unrelated set of functions. Searching and mnemonics certainly help, but can not match a physical device, which can be designed to be operated by touch alone.

I did see the search thing, and that’s what reminded me of Quicksilver. That’s a great feature and I was not criticizing that. The criticism comes more from having too many items crammed on screen. What happens when an application has hundreds of menu items? That’s where Quicksilver is cleaner, as it doesn’t attempt to show everything, it shows just what matches what you typed. Still, I think that’s a hack to a larger problem: having applications which have so many features, many of which are not necessary or could be more cleanly grouped with other things. A fundamental flaw to our interfaces is the need to sell the next version of any given software package, with each one adding more and more features that constantly add to the UI.