Embedded WMP stops playing

[gsauns]

I have a Windows Media Player control embedded in my page. This is the
code I use to get it to play:

function setPlayerURL()
{
player = document.getEle mentById("wmpWi ndow");
myURL =
document.getEle mentById("pathS tore").getAttri bute("value");
player.URL = myURL;
alert(player.UR L);
}
I used the alert to debug. I could not get it to work at all, until I
realized that the control DOES play the video WHILE the alert is open.
As soon as you click OK on the alert, the video stops and cannot be
played again.
I used another function to determine what the URL of the player is at
the moment that you click another button. That alert comes up blank.
This is my code for the player:

<object id="wmpWindow" width="400" height="300"
classid="CLSID: 6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
type="applicati on/x-oleobject" >
<param name="uiMode" value="full" />
<param name="AutoStart " value="true" />
</object>

It seems like after the Javascript function finishes, the page
refreshes and set the URL to "".
Why is this happening?

[bruce barker]

most likely you tied the javascript to a control that posts back.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

gsauns wrote:

I have a Windows Media Player control embedded in my page. This is the
code I use to get it to play:

function setPlayerURL()
{
player = document.getEle mentById("wmpWi ndow");
myURL =
document.getEle mentById("pathS tore").getAttri bute("value");
player.URL = myURL;
alert(player.UR L);
}
I used the alert to debug. I could not get it to work at all, until I
realized that the control DOES play the video WHILE the alert is open.
As soon as you click OK on the alert, the video stops and cannot be
played again.
I used another function to determine what the URL of the player is at
the moment that you click another button. That alert comes up blank.
This is my code for the player:

<object id="wmpWindow" width="400" height="300"
classid="CLSID: 6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
type="applicati on/x-oleobject" >
<param name="uiMode" value="full" />
<param name="AutoStart " value="true" />
</object>

It seems like after the Javascript function finishes, the page
refreshes and set the URL to "".
Why is this happening?

[gsauns]

So I needed it to a control that doesn't post back... I changed my
button to an HTML control instead of an ASP control, and that fixed
it. Thank you.