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Applet parameters in your HTML code allow you to override the Link to HTML property built into a HotMedia file.

In the example below clicking in the hot link region on this particular animation frame would connect to "http://www.software.ibm.com."

However, the following code would cause the link to override the specified target in the HotMedia file and would link to "http://www.xyz.com" instead. (The ShowALink parameter suppresses the display of the hot link rectangle.)

<!--applet starts here---------------------------- -->

           <APPLET

                CODEBASE=".."

                CODE="hm.class" 

                NAME="HotMedia"

                WIDTH=239

                HEIGHT=50>

           <PARAM NAME="mvrfile" value="data/sample.mvr">

           <PARAM NAME="T1URL" VALUE = "http://www.xyz.com###_self">

           <PARAM NAME="T2URL" VALUE = "r$$$http://www.xyz.com###_self">

           <PARAM NAME="ShowALink" VALUE = "n">

           </APPLET>

<!--applet ends here----------------------------- -->

T1URL

T1URL  is a parameter that allows you to create a URL link from the thumbnail image keyframe. The syntax for the T1URL value is as follows:

URL String ###Target Frame

T2URL

T2URL  is a parameter that allows you to create a URL link from an animation keyframe. The syntax for the T2URL value is as follows:

Concatenate type$$$URL String ###Target Frame

There are 3 possible values for Concatenate type :

	a -	Append the URL string to the target URL for all occurrences of targets in hot links as necessary.
	p -	Prepend the URL string to the target URL for all occurrences of targets in hot links as necessary.
	r -	Replace all occurrences of targets in hot links as necessary .

The following are the possible values for Target Frame:

_self to launch in the same frame

_blank to launch a URL in a separate window

_parent to launch URL in the parent frame

_<named frame> to launch URL in a named frame

The $$$ and ### are used to separate the individual fields of the T2URL parameter.

The following line would replace the target in the hot link and place it in the same frame.

<PARAM NAME="T2URL" VALUE = "r$$$http://www.xyz.com###_self">

 

Tracking

For automatic tracking purposes you could use the T2URL value with the prepend concatenation type prepending a link to a CGI program to the specified URL. Following is an example:

<PARAM NAME="T2URL" VALUE = "p$$$http://http://cgi-bin/tracking?###_self"

This would be prepended to the TARGET URL in the link in the HotMedia file, so that using the example above, the result is first to execute http://http://cgi-bin/tracking then replace the frame with http://www.software.ibm.com.