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Re: QTVR to Flash switch-over
Pat Swovelin 2009-Jun-30 07:25:00
On 6/29/2009 9:49 PM, Uri Cogan's hamster got loose on the keyboard and
typed ...:
>> Because you still had Quicktime selected, so there was nothing to show.
> Aha! thanks. So now I tried to disable QuickTime *before* accessing the
> preview page - and the panorama opened up in Flash. This is just what I
> was looking for.
Great.
>> Plus you don't want to disable Quicktime because it'll effect all of the
>> other sites you go that that still use it (that's a serious amount of
>> sites).
> Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that many people don't have
> QuickTime installed, and that QuickTime support for panoramas seems to
> be dwindling, so I'm slowly converting the panoramas on my own web site
> to switch *automatically* from QuicktTime to Flash.
It already doesn't work in Vista 64-bit (and probably won't work in
Windows7 64-bit) and rumor has it that QTVR files won't work at all in
Quicktime X (but we won't know that for certain until it's released).
For all intents and purposes Quicktime is dead as a panorama display engine.
>> It's directly under the left corner of the pano and in the top-left
>> corner of the navigation area. Where would you put it that would make
>> it stand out more? And, no, we're not going to use flashing scrolling
>> red text. =8^)
> Well, if the switch occurs automatically, then the present location of
> the switch is good though it could be a little more visible IMO.
Would this help? http://tinyurl.com/pywmge =8^)
> Thanks again!
My pleasure.
> Uri.
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large