Re: Presentation, and problem with wavs and plugins.

[WendyPetti@xxxx]

In a message dated 4/15/01 1:43:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dajoy@xxxx writes:

> I'm trying to do some starter projects for the 
> OWL community. I just made one that plays a wav file repeatedly
> It works fine when I run it locally but when I upload it to the internet
> and try to run it accessing the web page I get an error 
> message telling me it cant find the wav file. I placed 
> the project in mw2 format (I tried mwz format, too), the html file 
> and the wav file in the same directory. Has anyone tried to run 
> Microworlds projects that use wav files from the internet?
> 
> The project is temporarily at:
> 
> http://mondragon.port5.com/owl/horse.htm

Daniel, I have solved the problem!!!! (at least I think I have)
I created a sample project which consists only of an icon to access the 
"fanfare" WAV file. I uploaded the project, the sound, and an HTML file. At 
first I got the same message you got about the data failing to load properly. 
I observed that the WAV file was named entirely in capital letters: 
FANFARE.WAV ... and I recalled that online projects are very fussy about 
upper and lowercase letters. I thought that perhaps the project was 
attempting to locate "fanfare.wav" in lowercase letters and was rejecting 
"FANFARE.WAV" in uppercase letters. So I renamed the online file to be 
"fanfare.wav" in lowercase letters, and then when I refreshed the page and 
tried again, it worked! -- at least for me.

I would be very curious if a few of you would attempt to access this 
sound-testing project and report back to us. It would be helpful to have at 
least one PC tester and one Mac tester. Please specify your platform when 
you report back. Of course, as always, you need to have the MicroWorlds 
plug-in (Web Player) to access the project.

The URL is:

http://www.mathcats.com/microworlds/testingsound.html

If you can all access the sound, then it means that people posting online 
MicroWorlds projects need to be very careful that all of their sound files 
are in named with lowercase letters.

Wendy