send values to media elements

**riptide** · 06-01-2007, 02:36 PM

sending a value to a media player.

if you have the media player in your page windows media player or quicktime.

to send a value from a link put in a variable; how do you send it in a cross browser script to the embed src and the object tags param. I have read that there are problems with send things to param

do you need to use :
function{
var newValue= link1.herf or link1.valuenew

O.newP.value=newValue
or
newP.value=newValue

and for the embed element is it: newO.newE.value=newValue or

newO.newE.src=newValue
or
newE.value=newValue
or
newE.src=newValue

<body>
<a id="link1" herf="" retuen false>click here</a>
<object id="newO"
<param id="newP" name="" value=""/>
<embed id="newE" src=""/>
</object>

**riptide** · 06-02-2007, 04:18 PM

if you are confused just ask me what I mean?

**mburt** · 06-02-2007, 05:34 PM

Okay... What do you mean? I think you're talking about change param attributes?

**riptide** · 06-02-2007, 08:22 PM

yeah I want to send a value to them; a value from a link but I don't know who to do it. I also want to send the vaule of the link to the src of the embed tag.

**mburt** · 06-02-2007, 10:54 PM

Use this to access it:

Code:

document.embeds["newE"]

and if you want to change an attribute:

Code:

document.embeds["newE"]["src"] = "new source";

**riptide** · 06-03-2007, 05:27 PM

okay thanks but if I wanted to get to the param element of the object tag. what do I do.

also do you get the href value by going var nelo= link.href

and I'm having a bit of trouble with return false on links; it never seems to work.

**mburt** · 06-03-2007, 06:57 PM

The object tag is not an attribute of the param tag... I think you are getting something confused here. Could you explain a bit more?

**riptide** · 06-03-2007, 07:06 PM

like if I have
<object id="Player" width="300" height="450"
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="fileName" value="">
</object>>
I'm trying to send a value from a link to the param's value.

someone said to just use Player.filename=newvalue
but I don't understand how to get the links href value the right way.

**mburt** · 06-03-2007, 07:12 PM

Check which number the param number is on the page starting at zero and use the following:

Code:

document.getElementsByTagName("param")[0].value = "NEW VALUE"

I'm not sure if JS is allowed to access flash objects though.

**riptide** · 06-03-2007, 07:25 PM

I'm not going to use flash. can you add an ID to the param to get it easier.

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