Help with Hotspots
Hello,
Nearly as soon as I had bought LSP last year the company abandoned the product and I have to admit, that this dampened my confidence in LSP itself. But now I have to solve a problem with QT and hotspots, where I remembered this expensive yet unused piece of software.
In the beginning, a client wanted me to create a vr-object with hotspots to refresh text information in an next to the object. I have seen this before. Now the client no longer wants a vr-object but a simple mov with hotspots. This kind of stuff is LSP stuff I thought. But: while it seems possible to simply add hotspots to vr-scenes and objects, it seems not as easy to add hotspots to a video file. So I tried adding these mysterious sprites and a MouseClick action together with a gotoURL script. But nothing happens.
There are so many possible pitfalls, that I really don't know where to begin. Is anyone able and willing to give me some step-by-step advice?
Is there any alternative to LSP to achieve this task?
All help very much appreciated,
Yours,
Michael
Re: Help with Hotspots
Hey Michael:
What does your GoToURL script look like?
Patrick Cheatham
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Re: Help with Hotspots
Hello Patrick,
It's like this (dragged to the script window directly from the library):
GoToURL ("*http://www.premiumpano.de*T*_blank*")
NB: replace "*" with brackets... how can one apply these "allowed HTML tags", i.e. the code tag???? This is not my day...
The above URL is not what I would need, but I try the easy things first when I'm not sure what I'm doing.
Nothing happens in the preview nor does this work in a browser when exported. Moreover, the movie is running only once although I set the source movie to play as a loop.
I thought, all this LSP coding would be ok for me, since I have some knowledge to Lingo and PHP. But I guess I haven't understood the philosophy behind LSP yet.
If you like, try the project file:
http://www.premiumpano.de/testing/lsp_hotspottester.zip
Yours,
Michael
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Re: Help with Hotspots
Michael:
I'll look at your project files -- but I fear you (and me too, recently!!) have hit a new bug with the latest releases of QuickTime -- aberrant linking/hotspot behavior.
I saw in another forum someone responding with a suggestion of another third-party tool... I don't think this is the answer -- I think any linking/hotspot functionality created by _any_ program, outputing to QuickTime, will show this behavior.
I would recommend you 1) go have a beer :-) (or tea or coffee), and 2) submit a bug report to Apple (http://bugreporter.apple.com).
If I find anything else from your project file I will let you know!
Cheers,
Patrick Cheatham
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edit: looks like this project fell into the same problem category as another in this forum -- the image-less sprite! i think if an image is added to the sprite track all will be OK. Tested here, and it works after adding a sprite image.
Re: Help with Hotspots
Great! It seems that adding an image does the trick... although I don't understand why I have to add an image, only to set its state to invisible again. But alas, this is what I call program philosophy and you have to get used to it first. Hope, I'm on the way.
Thank you guys for helping,
Michael
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Re: Help with Hotspots
oh well, forgot to code the coding:
"In the beginning, a client wanted me to create a vr-object with hotspots to refresh text information in an iframe next to the object."
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