Layering problem when using video

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Tom,

The video is rendered in a separate (child) window, on top of everything 
else. This means that you can't put a control in front of a playing 
movie. If you really want this, you need to create a palette window with 
that control and display it in front of the movie. I think that the 
Kickstarter roadmap includes re-doing the movie features, which should 
also solve this problem.

There are a few ways to work around this problem. E.g. you could show a 
picture with the first frame of the movie and the field in front of it. 
When the field is hidden, you can display the player control. You could 
also make a SMIL file that shows text in front of the movie. You'll have 
to figure out how the SMIL format works, though. You could also edit the 
movie to include the text in the movie.

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On 9/1/2013 18:44, tbodine wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a card with video player set to loop on the bottom layer and a text
> field above it. The problem is when I go to that card, the video is always
> on top. When I click in the Project Browser on the video player, the title
> comes to the front and is properly displayed. (This is happening on Windows
> XP in LC 6.0.0, build 1511 Commercial Edition. Video clip is an avi.)
>
> I have both video and title set to dynamic, but the problem exists when they
> are set to static, too. Also, the problem occurs when I comment out the
> "start" command for the player, so even a still video frame goes to the top.
>
> Here's my code:
>
> on opencard
>     set the layer of player "backVid" to bottom
>     start player "backVid"
>     put "Intro. to" & RETURN & "Meteorology" & RETURN & "Week 1" into field
> "Title"
>     set the layer of field "Title" to top
> end opencard
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Bodine
>