Players 5

~ 4 Frame DivMenu
There doesn't seem to be much interest in this free cross frame script by Jon Perry. So we've only set up our example to show the 2 frame portion of the Clips Player containing the song list menu & play buttons. For this menu we use the PNG images made for the "Simple Frames Example". The DivMenu script doesn't work with Netscape 4.           The DIVmenu script is available at:

Multiple Artists Players

~ ~ Multiple Artists Players With TwinHelix DHTML Menu

We decided to resume work on our TwinHelix Multi-Artist Player because of the interest in Europe. Previously we were unable to get it working well beyond Opera6. Our example now works in Netscape 4, Mozilla 1 & 1.5, IE6, Opera6, 7.1, 7.5 & 8.0.

Surprise! All that Opera7 requires is a Reset of the content html pages which the frameset displays in the 2 lower frames. Why this reset must occur is a mystery. Opera 8 has no need of the Reset. Users of Opera 7 can accomplish the Reset by a mouseclick upon the menu bars in the upper frames. All the java script you need to know is included in the "popup.zip" from TwinHelix Designs. A more detailed discussion is taken up on page 6.

~ ~ ~ Multiple Artists Player With Sothink DHTML Menu

If you want to feature more than one artist in your Clips Player, the DHTML and javascript become more complicated because the menu links must change the content in more than one frame. And the menues produced with the GUI interface program will probably require some hacks.

Our DHTML example was made with the Sothink DHTML menu program. The Sothink program works because each HTML page contains a reference to the menu or submenu it displays. This feature allows us to point submenu links to additional songlist menues which need not be loaded with the original frameset. Our example uses 4 frames.

The frameset opens to display

     TopLeftNav0.htm              TopRightNav1.htm

     BottomLeftCnt1.htm          BottomRightCnt1.htm

The associated JS files with these HTMs are

     TL_nav1.js          TR_nav1.js

     BL_cnt1.js          BR_cnt1.js

Link2 displayed in BottomRightCnt1.htm changes both lefthand frames

     TopLeftNav2.htm                TopRightNav1.htm
         TL_nav2.js                            TR_nav1.js

     BottomLeftCnt2.htm            BottomRightNav.htm
         BL_cnt2.js                            BR_cnt1.js

There are other double links in this example which requires 7 menu.js files
1 _nav.js for the opening frameset
2 _nav.js & _cnt.js for each artists

This example works well in all our test browsers but our menues show poorly and try to dodge the mouse in Netscape 4. Our example was constructed with an outdated version of the Sothink program. The new version does not support NS4 or Mozilla 1.0.