[MWForum]Using video in MWPro projects

[Daniel Ajoy]

Hi Graham,


Let's say you video is called: doorhandleopen

use this to start it:

launch [doorhandleopen]

use this to stop it:

resetvideo "doorhandleopen

use this to hide it:

set "doorhandleopen "visible? "false

use this to show it:

set "doorhandleopen "visible? "true

Daniel
OpenWorld Learning
http://mia.openworldlearning.org



On 31 Mar 2005 at 8:16, GrahamWilliams@caulfieldgs.vic.edu.au wrote:

> Hi there helpful people!      My students are keen to use a few
> different videos in some projects they're setting-up and we're having
> some problems.   Here's the background :     Recently my students spent
> a few days at a re-created gold-mining settlement . Back here at school,
> they're using Mworlds Pro to make an  e-book as a rec ord of their
> experiences.  While away we took some great videos. The kids are keen to
> incorporate them into their projects.  Some of the kids have
> drawn/imported graphics of TV sets. They've put these TV set pics on a
> page and they want to 'bring up' the videos 'in' the screens of their TV
> sets - as though a TV show is playing their videos.  What they kids want
> to do is show and hide the videos as though the TV is being turned on
> and off . Some of the students have drawn remote control wands next to
> the TV sets [ or knobs on the TV set itself ]. They're putting coloured
> buttons on the remote control wands [ or on the TV] - the idea being to
> color-edit the various buttons so that as one button is clicked  the
> first first video appears 'in' the TV screen - then they want to be able
> to click-on another button so that the first video turns off [ hides] -
> or so that the TV channel' appears to change to another, different video
> . We're having no success finding a way to get one video to run and then
> turn off at a click and then have a second video start when another
> button is clicked...and so on .   As we import the different videos they
> seem to stay in the order in which they are imported.   I hope I'm
> making clear what we want to achieve. I'd appreciate any help and
> advice.  Graham  Williams  Vic otoria  Australia
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