Using QuickTime 3 media over the Internet

In both Authorware applications and in Shockwave pieces, you can link the QuickTime 3 media to a file on your disk or to a URL over the internet. If you link to a URL, the application or Shockwave piece begins to download the QuickTime 3 media when its sprite first appears in the Presentation window.

When using QuickTime 3 media in Shockwave pieces, keep these points in mind:

| The QuickTime 3 media does not appear in the Presentation window until it is fully downloaded. Once it is fully downloaded, it begins to play unless the Paused or Show Controller option is selected in the QuickTime 3 dialog box.
| Once QuickTime 3 media begins to download, the download continues until it's finished, even if the sprite no longer appears in the Presentation window.
| Once a QuickTime 3 media file has finished downloading, its sprite will use the file without downloading it again, as long as the file remains in the file cache.
| When scripts or expressions refer to properties or use functions that require information about QuickTime 3 media that has not finished downloading, the script receives only default information.

For a list of existing commands that you can use in Shockwave movies, look up "Web-related functions and variables" in the index of Authorware's online Help.