Can you please publish your result to a public Web server somewhere,
and post a link? I can probably figure this out in that case. Also,
please be sure that you have set the More Readable/More Efficient
picker to More Readable (in the Document Setup dialog, Output pane)
before you do this.
Walter
On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:58 PM, twb716 wrote:
PLEASE HELP! I would love for this Carousel action to work for me,
but it doesn’t “slide” the panes back and forth- it just jumps to
the next pane, without any type of smooth transition. What am I
doing wrong? Is there some kind of code that I am missing? I have
followed the “tutorial” step by step, and my project still jumps
instead of transitioning from one pane to the next. Any information
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Things have changed somewhat since I first posted instructions on
this list, in order to support more than one Carousel per page. If
you are following the instructions from this thread, then it probably
won’t work at all.
Thanks so much for the reply! The steps that I followed are indeed the ones that you linked to. I will post a public file this afternoon so that you can have a look. Thanks again.
I’ve actually figured this out now- the problem was that I hadn’t grouped all of the items together at the end before publishing. One more question, however: I can’t figure out how to add the “Selected” state to the tab using the CSS style that you recommended. How is this accomplished? Thanks.
In my example, I created a style manually, mostly using Extended
attributes in the Edit Style dialog. If you download that example
file, it’s all in there. The style has to be a class name, and it has
to be called active. If you make this style, and force it to publish,
then it will just work. Whatever tab is currently associated with the
visible pane will be given the classname active. So as long as that
class is set up in CSS, you will see the effect.
Walter
On Feb 11, 2008, at 3:57 PM, twb716 wrote:
I’ve actually figured this out now- the problem was that I hadn’t
grouped all of the items together at the end before publishing. One
more question, however: I can’t figure out how to add the
“Selected” state to the tab using the CSS style that you
recommended. How is this accomplished? Thanks.
Go to the Softpress site under Support menu/Resources. http://softpress.com/support/usermanuals.php and look at the description for the Complete Reference Manual. CSS Primer is one of the sections.
I’ve looked through the downloaded demo file that you’ve so graciously offered, and can’t find an “active” style anywhere. Are you sure it’s included in the file?
Hi Walter,
This looks like a great action and I’ve tried to use it with mixed results. If I set the Carousel action to auto-glide then it works great. However, if I try to set next/previous buttons by applying the Carousel Button action (v0.5b) to a graphic they don’t do anything! Clicking on them just gives a # after the URL, no link to the pane name or anything.
After you set up your previous/next buttons and the central carousel,
select all of them and group them. That’s the step you are missing.
Walter
On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:29 AM, johnrob wrote:
Hi Walter,
This looks like a great action and I’ve tried to use it with mixed
results. If I set the Carousel action to auto-glide then it works
great. However, if I try to set next/previous buttons by applying
the Carousel Button action (v0.5b) to a graphic they don’t do
anything! Clicking on them just gives a # after the URL, no link to
the pane name or anything.
Thanks Walter, this was the step though I had to play with checking/unchecking layers to get this work properly.
Slightly off topic but related to this and something I’ve never found an answer to: if I have a bunch of content for the various panes all on top of each other, how can I easily edit the content of panes underneath the top one? I can select the correct HTML box but I cannot click inside to edit the content - at the moment I have to delete all the boxes on top of it!
Sorry if this is basic but I can’t find the answer in the Freeway manual.
Thank you as ever. Now I’m working my way through the forums to find an answer as to how (if at all) to get lightbox to work within the carousel action, to click on a pic and bring up a larger image.
Sometime around 6/3/08 (at 05:32 -0500) johnrob said:
Thank you as ever. Now I’m working my way through the forums to find
an answer as to how (if at all) to get lightbox to work within the
carousel action, to click on a pic and bring up a larger image.
Have you seen Cabel Sassar’s FancyZoom script? That is really, really
clever and cool stuff. Other Lightbox and related things are too, and
there’s a Freeway action-ified Lightbox thing too, from Max I
believe. But this is a really well-implemented visual treat.
Hi Keith…I would love to lay claim to the light box action but alas it isn’t me… I think you may be thinking of Weaver’s excellent Mootools action which does have a lightbox.
Unless I did do something and I cant remember any more… :o)
Sadly, MooTools-based effects won’t work within Carousel. Look for a lightbox effect based on Prototype (there are several) and you should be fine. Protaculous will help you set up the page for the effect.
