Re: CDF player and opening non-Mathematica files
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- Subject: [mg117178] Re: CDF player and opening non-Mathematica files
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:02:44 -0500 (EST)
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Yes, it works fine. (Linked it to a file in my iTunes library on my Mac). One thing that I'd love to see in M by the way is a way to embed an external file within a notebook in the way that one does in HTML. E.g. by puting youtube code in an appropriate cell having the video appear in the notebook: <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ysTmUTQ5wZE"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This would be a subset of allowing html to be rendered within a notebook... --David On Mar 10, 6:16 am, Tom <tidetable... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This might not have been an issue for anyone, but a major drawback > for my personal preparation of lessons has been the inability to link > to non-Mathematica files using MathPlayer. > > I know that with Mathematica, you can use SystemOpen to open any > file. > > This is great to create lessons that might link to movies or other > supporting files. > > I just did an experiment and found that if I created a button to open > a movie file, that button WORKED in the new CDF player. > > E.g. > > Button["try", > SystemOpen[FileNameJoin[{NotebookDirectory[], "T1457_2.mp4"}]]] > > I'll be able to make some major improvements to lesson flow and > interest by more easily incorporating other kinds of files . > > I won't be able to implement this till next year, once our students > get the new player, but if anyone else is interested or has need of > this kind of functionality, can you confirm for me that this > works...? > > I.E. if you create a button to open some kind of "other" file, tha= t > button will work in CDFPlayer. > > Thanks for your time, > > Tom