Widgets Glitch on ibook g4

When I use widgets and type something into a field within widgets my keyboard does not function properly after. I would like help with solving this problem.

When I use widgets and type something into a field
within widgets my keyboard does not function properly
after. I would like help with solving this problem.
What do you mean 'not function properly after'? If you can give more details it will help people understand what the problem is.
Has this happened ever since you had tiger? Is it one particular widget that causes the issue?
Do you do basic maintenance? EG repair permissions? Run cron scripts?
Steve

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Which could be a few keystrokes away from fixing or days of BS&T, sorry. There's no way to know, especially from here.
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In the end, tho, I think your time at this point is best spent simply redoing from scratch. If you have further questions, please start your own, unique thread so you can better track, close if solved, etc.
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iBooks Author version 2.1.1
Keynote version 6.1
OSX version 10.9.2
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Either the tech who emailed you saying to use .m4p is mixed up, or their online documentation is wrong.
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Hi folks!
I'm using with great pleasure Adobe Edge Animate 1.0 to make Html Widgets for Apple iBooks Author!
In a composition, I've defined this variable:
var track1 = new Audio();
        track1.src = "media/track1.m4a";
        track1.volume = 0.5;
and made it play:
track1.play();
All it works but...what if I want that - when I go out from the widget on iBooks on iPad - the track pauses?
I've coded this in my index.html file inside the widget:
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$.Edge.getComposition(EDGE-114545384).getStage();
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Any hint?
Many thanks in advance!
Davide

Hi Elaine!
Thanks for your attention!
I've made a simple example with a play/pause button but it doesn't work: when I exit the widget the sound still plays. You can download it here:
www.terredainventare.it/Testaud.wdgt.zip
Accordingly to this guy http://ibooksauthor.es/eventos-de-reentrada-y-salida-en-un-widget-html/, the    widget.pauseAudioVisual and widget.didEnterWidgetMode should work!
Many thanks for your help!
Davide

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