New HTA- are Iframes the answer?

[Ellen]

Hi! OK, I admit it, I am a newbie coder but very much a techie generalist. If
you keep it to a medium level, I will probably understand you. Even links
would be useful.

I have undertaken the task of creating an HTA application in Front Page out
of about 60 movies rendered by Camtasia Studio and protected by MS DRM. The
rendering converts the movies from AVI to WMV, and creates a graphical index
of each movie using jscript in an HTML based file, with an imbedded Windows
Media Player.

Guess what? HTA conversion on the Front Page shell I'm building is NOT
causing a problem with the usability and viewing of these pages within the
HTA main window!!! YIPPEE!

What I cannot seem to do is add the necessary browser/page navigation
controls to the movie htm file in order to go back to the prior list of
movies. In this situation, the user would have to close the application then
restart it to navigate to a different movie. Not really the "user experience"
I want. So is this the case for an IFrame? (whattever that is) I want the GUI
to look non-browser, which is why I used the NAVIGABLE property of
HTA:APPLICATION

One other thing- I can display any Adobe PDF's I want, as long as I don't
want to display them in my HTA main window. I just get the horrible
goobletygook that tells me something is very very wrong. However, I can use
the context menu and display in a new window (with all the associated browser
warnings). Also, not the user experience I want.

Thank you so much for your attention! Regards, Ellen

 

[p c]

What is HTA application?

...PC

 

[Ellen]

PC- you can find enough to get you started here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp

For those who might have answered or just thought about answering, I figured
out the right solution for my situation- open the linked pages in a new
browser window (the target property in the hyperlink). Thanks!

Ellen