Help with Activ Variables needed

§ The first feature I would like to add is an attention sound clip such as clonk or other sound to indicate a problem when the user tries to enter a protected page during a trial version.

I know I have many sound effects within windows and have tried a few but can't get them to work at all.

§ The second feature is to show the esbn code number (which I know is {esbn} ) on my own "About" Page.

The problem is almost certainly, that I am entering the information on the HTML page fragment incorrectly, this is also probably so within the error (access not permitted) page link.

Although not expert, but I am sufficiently experienced in HTML to have designed and built my own website, and I know a little JavaScript. I have tried to implement both these features without success despite the fact I have referred numerous times to the manual.

Anyone got any idea what I should be doing?  Such as:

§ Attention Sound
What is entered on the HTML Page fragment? - I placed this in the Include folder - do I need to?
I presume that the sound feature will be within the hypertext link that calls up the error notice (my own version).
What is the method used to call up the sound?

§ Display ESBN Code Number.
How do I use the Predefined Activ Variable {esbn} to display the number on my own HTML "about" page and/or any other suitable html page?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Art.
UK.

insert [={esbn}] in page at the place

Enable PreProcessor on the files concerned in Files tab in compiler

For sound thing

In body tag, you will need to call a JavaScript in onload event of body tag

The javascript then plays the sound either using standard javascript methods, or usingwww.ebookpower.cometc

Something like, replace [ ] with less-than greater-than

[HTML]
[HEAD]
[TITLE]Title[/TITLE]
[SCRIPT]
function makesound()
{
/* see ebookpower manual for what to put in quotes for next line - or write your own javascript using standard JS methods */
window.external.ActivRun('##AMM....etc...') ;
}
[/SCRIPT]
[BODY onload="makesound()"]
Blah Blah
[/BODY]
[/HTML]

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Quote: from Art on 3:41 pm on Sep. 8, 2003[br]My 5 eBooks look great and all features are working as they should and I am now ready to upload to my website, but before doing so I would like to add two features, which I am unable to complete. It concerns Activ Variables.

§ The first feature I would like to add is an attention sound clip such as clonk or other sound to indicate a problem when the user tries to enter a protected page during a trial version.

I know I have many sound effects within windows and have tried a few but can't get them to work at all.

§ The second feature is to show the esbn code number (which I know is {esbn} ) on my own "About" Page.

The problem is almost certainly, that I am entering the information on the HTML page fragment incorrectly, this is also probably so within the error (access not permitted) page link.

Although not expert, but I am sufficiently experienced in HTML to have designed and built my own website, and I know a little JavaScript. I have tried to implement both these features without success despite the fact I have referred numerous times to the manual.

Anyone got any idea what I should be doing?  Such as:

§ Attention Sound
What is entered on the HTML Page fragment? - I placed this in the Include folder - do I need to?
I presume that the sound feature will be within the hypertext link that calls up the error notice (my own version).
What is the method used to call up the sound?

§ Display ESBN Code Number.
How do I use the Predefined Activ Variable {esbn} to display the number on my own HTML "about" page and/or any other suitable html page?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Art.
UK.

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So far as the ESBN is concerned I had originally done it correctly, what I was doing is looking at a HTML page with my browser. When I ran the eBook it was working fine. I visted the forum this morning to report that.

The sound thing is another matter it has me perplexed. I will go and try it out right way.

 Multimedia shouldn't be too different from a web page:

I know, for instance, that this works in Activ:

 <EMBED SRC="clock.avi" WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=160>

 for sounds, you could try a few scripts I've collected here:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">

function Playsound()  
{
document.write('<EMBED NAME="sound" SRC="clicksound.wav" HIDDEN=TRUE AUTOSTART=FALSE MASTERSOUND>')
}

</SCRIPT>

call it like this:

<A HREF="javascript:void(0)"
          onMouseover='Playsound()'>
          hover over this</A>

or, try this one-liner, within an href:

onMouseOver='document.location="music.filename.wav"

or, you could do a search for 'JavaScript Sound' which brought me to a lot of sites, including this helpful one:

 http://www.webreference.com/js/column20/index.html

best -