hello there. i was hoping to succeed in creating this certain affect for my website using freeway 5 express: rather than hyperlinking to other internal pages, i want to create a home page many times larger than the display size (2500px by 2500px for example) and travel to different parts of this page using anchors and hyperlinks. this i have succeeded in doing, the only problem is that i want the display to scroll slowly to the next location rather than jumping there at light speed. is there anyway to get this floating wandering movement? thanks for any insight.
Hello all. Should I remain optimistic that a smooth scrolling solution for Freeway 5 Express will be discovered and shared? I await in a state of high anticipation. All the best, Theo
The ironic thing about Express is that even though it is marketed as a
“beginner/hobbyist” tool, it encourages (nice word for forces) quite a
high level of code-understanding on its users. Many things which
become push-button easy in Pro require arcane work-arounds and deep
understanding of the inner workings of browser to pull off
convincingly in Express, because you can’t use custom Actions there.
Almost any method you can find on the Web for smooth-scrolling to a
named anchor on a page could be used within Express to do what you’re
after here. Higher points given for anything that uses Prototype and
Scriptaculous, since if you use any of Freeway’s built-in effects, you
need to remain compatible with Prototype, which most other libraries
do not do. (Anything with jQuery in it will require more geekery,
because the two libraries conflict at a foundation level.)
Have a google for a good smooth scrolling script, and if you find one,
post a link here. There are lots of us who have had experience adding
third-party scripts to Freeway, and Freeway makes this incredibly easy
to do, but do a little leg-work for us and find the code you want to
add to your page. I had a quick look for a Scriptaculous-based smooth
scroll that worked in both x and y axes, and couldn’t find one,
although I could swear I had seen one once. If anybody knows where to
find such a thing, please pipe up.
Walter
On May 9, 2011, at 5:15 PM, theo marks wrote:
Hello all. Should I remain optimistic that a smooth scrolling
solution for Freeway 5 Express will be discovered and shared? I
await in a state of high anticipation. All the best, Theo
my website will not be overly graphic/effect rich. basically just a one page site with a single background image that can be navigated through ideally with both horizontal and vertical smooth scrolling, but even only vertical scrolling would be acceptable. i have no experience adding code to freeway express. any expertise much appreciated. theo