FP98: Can't Use .wav, .ra, .mid Sounds With Hover Buttons

ID: Q175175

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SUMMARY


MORE INFORMATION

If you see a gray box rather than the hover button when you preview your page in a Web browser, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q179940 FP98: Gray Box, Error Using Hover Button with 32-bit Color


SYMPTOMS

When you attach a sound file to a hover button, the sound does not play.


CAUSE

A sound file attached to a hover button will not play if it is in stored in a format, such as .wav, Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid), or Real Audio (.ram).

In FrontPage 98, a hover button is a Java-based applet that can use 8-bit, 8000 Hz, mono, u-law audio (.au) files only. The .au file format is an audio digital file format supported by the Java programming language, developed by Sun Microsystems. This file format is commonly used on UNIX and NeXT computers.


RESOLUTION

To use a sound file as an effect on a hover button, convert the sound file to the .au format, by using a sound conversion utility, which is available from a third-party software vendor.

Microsoft has two sample audio files (Train.au and Click.au) in a self-extracting archive called Ausample.exe. To use these files, download the following file from the Microsoft Software Library

~ Ausample.exe Release Date: October 23, 1997
save it to your hard disk, and then double-click the file to extract the two sound files.

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Additional query words: 98 Hover Button Sound 


Keywords          : kbdta fpedit 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 23, 1999