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Posted: **09 Oct 2007 15:31**

Hello:
First of all excuse my Engiish but I currently speak Spanish.
I'm trying to make a Sidebar Gadget with the VLC ActiveX but my code does not work. It seems the ActiveX is not loaded into the gadget although it works fine as a standalone web page. The scripting is very simple:

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<HTML><HEAD>
<script>
function doGo(targetURL)
{
    var vlc = document.getElementById("vlc");
    vlc.playlist.clear();
    vlc.playlist.add(targetURL);
    vlc.playlist.play();
}
</script>
</HEAD>
<body style="width:130px;height:120px;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:7pt;">
<INPUT size="6" id="targetTextField" value="sample.mp4" NAME="targetTextField">
<INPUT type=submit value="Go" onClick="doGo(document.getElementById('targetTextField').value);" ID="Submit1" NAME="Submit1">
<OBJECT classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921"
        codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab#Version=0,8,6,0"
        width="120"
        height="80"
        id="vlc"
        events="True" VIEWASTEXT>
<param name="MRL" value="" />
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" />
<param name="AutoLoop" value="False" />
<param name="AutoPlay" value="False" />
<param name="Volume" value="50" />
<param name="StartTime" value="0" />
</OBJECT>
</BODY></HTML>

I have tried with this other code:

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<HTML>
<head>
<script>
function go()
  {
   document.getElementById("texto").value="adios";
   loadControl();
  }
function stop()
  {
   vlc.playlist.stop();
  }
 function loadControl()

    {
var vlc = new ActiveXObject("VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2");
        vlc.MRL="sample.mp4";
        vlc.playlist.play();
        document.getElementById("texto").value= vlc.playlist.isPlaying;
   }     

</script>
</head>
<body style="width:130px;height:120px;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:7pt;">
<INPUT type="button" value="Go" onClick="go();">
<INPUT type="button" value="Stop" onClick="stop();">
<INPUT type="text"id="texto" value="">
<br>

</BODY>
</HTML>

In this case, the ActiveX Control is loaded in both, the standalone page and the Gadget, but the display does not appear and I can not watch or hear the movie.

I have read that in order to get an ActiveX working in Gadgets, they mut be trust-signed. Is that true?
Any ideas?

Regards

The VideoLAN Forums

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