Today, I came across a project built in Composica that had a functionality problem.

There was no way to keep the narration muted throughout the whole project. Every time a user went to a new page, they would have to re-mute the narration.

The narration files were attached to Windows Media Player objects embedded in each page and placed in a bottom toolbar.

The problem is that the instances of Windows Media are all self-contained and there was no way to get them to communicate with the project on the whole.

The solution I came up with is to manually insert a Narration on/off button in the bottom toolbar.

This brings up an interesting point for future reference.

We could attach a media player to the file separately that is independent of the project's narration so that we could run a podcast or other audio file that is totally under the control of the end user.