On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If someone likes, he or she can upload it into the wiki - I don't know
> where to put it and how to upload it...
such page was recently created in wiki
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts
also http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts-HowToCreateThem
I created a directory /uploads/LyX/Screencasts where screencasts can
be saved. I think it's reasonable to create a page for each SWF
screencast (I created http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InsertFiguresScreencast)
as SWF-movies need quite a lot of space and I am not sure, how to make
them not start playing as soon as the page loads.
Hi Dominik,
I think you did a nice job here with the page!
If possible, I'd prefer that we just stick to linking to the files...
personally I'm not a fan of Adobe Flash, and I really don't like to have
it on by default. It definitely should not _load_ by default!
Well, it seems as if uploading screencasts were not as easy as I thought:
1. pmWiki disables HTML by default, thus including a swf-movie using
<OBJECT ...> isn't possible
This is correct. In addition, I'm a bit worried by the possibilities to
spam a site if we allow flash... I can just imagine spammers linking to
cute looking adds...
2. There exist various possibilities, how to include swf-movies
(http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Flash), but they seem to be
disabled.
So, please someone activate the swf.php script for the wiki.
"Place the swf.php
(http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/uploads/Cookbook/swf.php) script in your
cookbook/ directory, add the line
include_once('cookbook/swf.php');
to your config.php file, and any link ending in ".swf" will
automatically be converted to HTML code for an embedded Flash
animation."
As I said before, let's see if it's possible to do this without enabling
such a recipe. Does it work for you if you click on the link to a
.swf-file? (It doesn't work for me, it complains that there no
application...).
Then I installed IrfanView and a plugin, and that works. Would it be enoug
if we tell people what they can do in order to watch the screencasts?
(I can prepare such a page)
An alternative to IrfanvView is MacroMedia Flash, but I haven't tried it.
/Christian
PS.
Btw, the wiki markup:
uploads:/LyX/Screencasts/InsertFigures.swf
can (and should) be used to link to uploaded files. 'Attach':' does not
work on our site.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
