Sorry, I don't understand your question. Can you elaborate?

CATweb uses catweb/htdocs/tmp as its temporary directory (or catweb/www/tmp if using the UniformServer).

Yes, but first I need to figure out exactly why your change (restoring the properties) helped.
Meaning: Which property made things go wrong.

Have done my homework now:
ExtractImages is the problem.
Apparently, you access images using GetImage, I don't.
And since I only set the properties once when the program starts and not before every call, you can easily see why it goes wrong.
The resetting of properties is a good way to solve the problem.
I understand now, that it would not affect other users.

Hi Dave

I now have CATweb running successfully on my PC's and IPAD.
I can also play a track on the IPAD although it starts on a blank webpage with a thin play bar.

What would be nice is this:


I made a copy of track.xsl, called it PlayMusic.xsl and included this code:


Obviously, the src should have been PLAY:{../@id}, but unfortunately CATweb ignores this command inside the audio tag.

This works in Safari + IE + FireFox

There are a couple of ways this could work:
1) Just insert the above code in the template, where you want to play.
2) Convert all playlinks to a call to a specific track template (PlayMusic.xsl) to open up on a new page.
This way you can build your own layout around the player plugin.

What do you think? Worth trying?

Edit:
It seems that FireFox does not support mp3 using the audio tag due to licensing issues.
Therefore if you use Firefox, the embed tag should be used instead.

Having played around a bit more, I think the best solution would be:
1) Convert all CMD:Play instructions to a call to Playmusic.xsl (basically a copy of track.xsl)
2) In Playmusic.xsl convert the audiofilename in the audio/embed src tag to the correct url.

If you want to play a file while browsing, you will most likely want to play on a new webpage so you can continue browsing while playing.

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the suggestions. They are interesting and require some thought to decide what is the best approach. I need to experiment a bit but I'll be back!

Hi Dave

It seemed that my attachment got lost in the previous post.
It should be back now.

Hi Dave

I found a way around the FireFox problem.
I have now put in a JavaScript to replace the audio tag in PlayMusic.xsl.
$newurl are a temporary manual construct of the correct url at home.

Hi Thomas,

I haven't had much time to work on this but here is something for you to try. CATweb v2.8.3alpha

There are two new conversions that are enabled by adding this line to the end of httpd.conf.
<a href="PLAY:nnn"> links are converted into links that will open PlayMusic.xsl in a blank page with track id=nnn.

The src="PLAY:nnn" attribute in audio and embed tags is converted into src="http://path_to_audiofile_for_id=nnn". The track id should be unformatted.

There may be some bugs so let me know if you see anything odd.

Hi Dave

Not a great success.
Apparently, nothing has changed.

There is only one place to put the Env line, right?
In "C:\CATweb\apache\conf\httpd.conf"

Hi Thomas,
That's all correct. It works fine on my CATraxx computer...but I'm not there now. Will double check all the parts for you tonight.

Hi Thomas,

Works fine here. Not sure why you see no difference. Are you sure the version of catweb\cgi-bin\catweb.cgi show as 2.8.3? You can send me or post your httpd.conf file if you want me to check it out. Also, I could look at one of your templates to confirm that CATweb is interpreting your links properly.