During install, I would like to play a .wav or .mp3 (using Media Player I suppose, or anything else 'hidden' from the regular desktop) to mess with a dev-tester's mind. Any suggestions on how I can make this possible with WiX 3.5?
Thanks.
As far as I know WIX doesn't have direct support for this. You will have to write your own custom action.
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_customaction.htm
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In Blogger I am trying to recreate the audio feature used in this web site http://www.talkenglish.com/lessondetails.aspx?ALID=2001 where you click on text and hear the audio (an mp3 file) instantly. When I embed identical code into a Blogger page and click it, it wants to play the mp3 file by kick starting Windows Media Player. I don't want a solution like SoundCloud that creates visible player controls. Can anyone suggest a solution. I am hoping to use it to create an online amateur speech therapy package to support some voluntary work I do in this area.
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That site is using a file called audioplayer.js. To be honest, I am not exactly sure if that's custom built or not. You can look at the source for that here. You have a bunch of options to get the functionality you're looking for. A couple are below.
You can use SoundManager2 which is a very robust JS Sound plugin.
You can also use HTML5's built in <audio> element. You can read more about that here
The client is trying to figure out whether they'd like to go with a node-webkit app with AngularJS, but their one sticking point is that they'd like to be able for their users to drag a file out of the app and onto the desktop or an email client (such as Outlook or Lotusnotes) like you can do with an applet (which I'm desperately trying to avoid).
As far as I can tell, this doesn't look possible, but I'm not well versed yet with the latest stuff you can do with HTML5 and Chrome specifically. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
Edit: I've also never used node.js
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/#toc-dnd-files
http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/gmail-dragout
The answer is yes. Here is some more text so that I can submit my answer.
#tjb1982 Using a demo like this one:
http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/gmail-dragout worked for simple files, but when trying to drag a WAV file or MP3 file into a audio software( like logic, pro tools, ableton ) they won't recognise it as an audio file.
What's the simplest way to setup a chrome extension to record audio from the microphone?
I see there is a working experimental speech input API but how come you don't have access to the recorded file? Seems like hooking up into that should be simple enough, as it's a step earlier in the process, no? Especially as there is also a text-to-speech API, so you could effectively record into text and then have the computer speak it back out, but unless you want a standard voice, how lame, redundant and prone to error is that?
Then there seem to be flash solutions like this but how can I use that in a chrome extension without having to setup anything server-side? (since I don't actually need to send anything to a server--it's all local and client-side)
Is NPAPI a possibility? Is there such a plugin ready-made?
Don't know of other possible alternatives (HTML5 isn't ready yet, it seems) but I welcome anything functional and simple to implement and hook into a chrome extension.
Finally a native solution appeared: Introducing getUserMedia
You cannot use the speech input API, since it will record only the microphone. Okay, you can grab the speakers like that, but it's clearly not the solution.
Using a NPAPI plugin is a solution. You'll can identify the sound made by a particular tab and after record that source, but it is no longer web dev.
Does anyone know of a site where I can download temporary SWF files to use as placeholders during web development? I've searched a lot on Google and can't dig anything up like this?
Was wondering if there is something similar to what http://placehold.it is for PNGs, but just need soemthing for SWFs.
I'd like to just grab one and use it to drop into my code, so all the Flash designer has to do is just replace the temporary SWF with the one that's going to be used on the live site.
Here ya go: http://clearmpls.com/temp/placeholder/
Source files: http://clearmpls.com/temp/placeholder/placeholder.zip
You could have your flash designer make one. It would take literally 10 seconds.
Does anyone know if there are any WiX standard UI dialouges out there that you can use to integrate into your own WiX msi package?
For example:
Editing Connection Strings to database
Editing paths to log files in web.config/app.config
Setting up users for a Windows Service
Setting up WCF Endpoint addresses and other parameters
This would be very helpful!
I've haven't seen any UI dialog package either.
WixEdit has a dialog editor which I've heard is pretty useful, but I haven't used.
War Setup is a pretty good utility. It's been about a year since I've used it, so I don't remember if it has a dialog editor or not.
Edit: I couldn't think of the one I really loved, but I just found it: WixAware. It has probably the best dialog editor. The only thing is that it's trialware and the full version is $800.
Not today no. They aren't that hard to write though.