Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed- P18: The good news is Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. The bad news, unfortunately, is that Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. Why so many windows, panels, and so on, Dreamweaver is unprecedented in the feature set it provides, allowing developers complete control when building websites and applications | 1. Open the page if it s not open already. 2. With the existing video clip selected click the Parameters button in the Property inspector. The Parameters dialog appears. 3. Enter the parameter name Loop in the Parameter column and the value True in the Value column similar to Figure . Figure . Enter the Loop parameter and set the value to True. 4. Click OK. 5. Save your work. Preview your page in the browser by pressing F12 Option F12 . This time the movie loops as soon as it reaches the end. Similar to QuickTime movie files RealMedia files can also accept parameters. Table outlines the parameters supported by RealMedia files. Table . Supported RealMedia Parameters RealMedia Parameter Values Autostart True or False Console Name _master _unique Controls All controlpanel imagewindow infovolumepanel infopanel playbutton positionslider positionfield statuspanel statusbar stopbutton statusfield and volumeslider Nolabels True or False By default RealMedia files have an interface that resembles Figure when viewed in the browser. As you can see the default interface is nonintuitive and doesn t resemble a typical RealMedia player interface. Figure . The default RealMedia interface isn t very intuitive. View full size im. With the addition of a couple parameters we can customize this interface to look a bit more traditional. To do this follow these steps 1. With the page open select the existing QuickTime movie in the Document window and delete it. 2. Choose the Insert Media Plugin option. Browse to the movie and click OK. 3. When the plug-in icon appears on the page select it and change the width and height properties in the Property inspector to 320 by 240. 4. Click the Parameters button in the Property inspector to launch the Parameters dialog. 5. Add the two parameters Autostart and Controls setting their values to True and Imagewindow respectively. The result resembles Figure . Figure .
