Crescendo Netscape plug-in Authoring Information

HTML

The basic HTML tag and required attributes for Crescendo and Crescendo PLUS plug-ins are:

<EMBED TYPE="music/crescendo" SONG="yourmidifile.mid" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.liveupdate.com/dl.html" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=55>

or

<EMBED SRC="/old?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveupdate.com%2Fyourmidifile.mid&y=1999" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=55>

For more details on these two tags, see our Information for Web Page Authors page.
 

• WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=55 
• WIDTH=82 HEIGHT=18  (Option not available for Crescendo 4.x)
• WIDTH=46 HEIGHT=50  (Option not available for Crescendo 4.x)
• WIDTH=16 HEIGHT=16 
• WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=2 (invisible)

1. AUTOSTART="true" - start automatically
2. LOOP="true" - loop forever
3. NOSAVE="false" - disable "Save As" capability of Crescendo
4. BGCOLOR="#RRGGBB" - set background color R, G, B values (Option not available for Crescendo 4.x)
5. TXTCOLOR="#RRGGBB" - set text color for song counter in upper right
Here RR, GG, and BB stand for two-digit hexadecmal numbers from 0 (00 hex) to 255 (FF hex), representing the color strength.

For example, the following tag:

  <EMBED SRC="/old?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveupdate.com%2Fsong.mid&y=1999" HEIGHT=55 WIDTH=200 BGCOLOR="#FF00FF" TXTCOLOR="#00FFFF">

yields the following colors (magenta is "#FF00FF", a mixture of red and blue, and cyan is "#00FFFF", a mixture of green and blue):





6. DELAY=1 - delay the streaming music by n seconds (If n is negative, the first n seconds of the piece aren't played.)
This is useful if the server internet connection is slower, or the web page is heavily with graphics, as it will provide more time for the MIDI file to load prior to the start of play. This will provide more buffering for the streaming.

Please see our Information for Web Page Authors page.