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Accessing Properties

Accessing and modifying the properties of the Microsoft® Windows Media™ Player control requires somewhat different scripting syntax for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft® Internet Explorer. For example, to retrieve and set the FileName property from Netscape Navigator, use the following: 

MediaPlayer.SetFileName("demo.asf");
var myTitle = MediaPlayer.GetFileName();

The corresponding statements in Internet Explorer are as follows: 

MediaPlayer.FileName = "demo.asf"
var myTitle = MediaPlayer.FileName

To write a script that works under both browsers, check the browser type before accessing the properties. The following code segment shows how to turn on captioning for either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.

if (navigator.appName = "Navigator") {
   MediaPlayer.SetShowCaptioning(true);
}
else {
   MediaPlayer.ShowCaptioning = true;
}

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