Embed an object in a page

You can add an embedded object in any page area. Most objects will be fully contained within your CuteSITE Builder file, with the viewing and editing functionality available from its own application.

Embed an object by choosing it from a list

1. Right-click where you want the object to appear.

2. Choose Insert > Object.

3. Select the Create New option to create a new object. Then select the type of object to create from the list.

OR

• Select the Create from file option to insert an existing file into the page as an object. You can either type the file name and location or click Browse to select from a list.

Embed an object by dragging

1. In the Windows Explorer, find the file you want to embed.

2. In CuteSITE Builder, click on the page so that it has focus.

3. Drag the file's icon from Explorer into the CuteSITE Builder page and release it. The file you dragged appears as a newly inserted object.

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Overview

Notes

• Objects you embed in a CuteSITE Builder page do not maintain active links to the files from which you created them. Changes you make to a object in CuteSITE Builder will not be reflected in its original file, and changes you make to the original file will not be reflected in the object.

• Double-click to activate any object and launch its particular application window (if available). Most applications support both viewing and editing; right-click on an object to see the exact commands supported by its application.

It is not currently possible to make an object execute "in place" automatically, the minute a page is accessed. For example, if you embed a video clip, you or your visitors must double-click to launch it., and then secondly it will appear in its own application window, separate from CuteSITE Builder. A visitor can activate an object by double-clicking only if its default verb is "play."

• Objects cannot be exported; when you publish to the Web, objects are automatically converted to images.

• If object performance or file size becomes an issue, you can right-click and choose Change Object to Image to paste a picture that has the object's appearance, without its behavior. This change is one-way, unless you have recently made the change and can still choose Undo; to reverse the change, you must embed the original file again.

• An object's appearance within CuteSITE Builder depends on its application's capabilities. If an object is primarily visual, you may see some or all of its content. For example, if you embed a video clip, depending on its application, the object when it is not running may simply display the first frame of the video clip as a static image. If an object comprises multiple pages, as in a word processing or presentation graphics file, you generally see only one page. Usually you see the page that was visible when the file was last saved or updated.

• Objects that are not primarily visual, such as audio clips, may appear as icons. Due to limitations in OLE support on the part of multimedia applications, it is not always possible to pull all of their content into CuteSITE Builder; for example, embedded AVI, MIDI, and RMI files let CuteSITE Builder embed only a pointer to an external file. Such objects therefore have more in common with other external files referenced in container pages.

• When you insert a new object, or cut an object from the clipboard, and that object does not already have a description, CuteSITE Builder puts the description from the object's system configuration (if any) into the object properties under Description.

• You can view and adjust object properties in order to change the way objects appear within CuteSITE Builder. Essentially, you are changing the properties of the surface of the object as presented in a CuteSITE Builder page; for changes to content, edit the object itself. Object embedding may not be the best solution for all types of content. For example:

• If you want animations or video to run "in place", as soon as your visitors turn to the page that contains them (as opposed to waiting for the visitor to launch them), other ways are to reference the file in a container page, or create an HTML page that runs the animation automatically, and then capture the HTML page. A potential drawback here is the long wait required to launch large .AVI files, which need to be extracted, put in a temporary directory, and so on.

• If you want to reference an external file, and have any changes you make be propagated back to that file, use a container page that references the file, which provides exactly this functionality. Such files can still be edited in their own application window. If you do not want to provide a comment with the file, you can remove the container page's borders.

• You can also launch any file directly from a link.

These other methods differ from using objects, in that for them to be effective, your visitors must have the same access to the linked-to files or HTML pages that you do. If you are distributing a file widely, in circumstances you cannot control, embedding an object is the safer method.