I’m trying to set up a carousel action on one of my pages and am having difficulties. I can see the Carousel Button and Carousel Tab actions but am I missing the Carousel action itself? I looked at this thread and it seems that way: http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/30348#m_30350
I’ve looked under page actions and didn’t see it. I’ve tried to follow Walter’s tutorial (which is very easy to understand!) on his homepage for the action and even reinstalled the Protaculous files from his site. Am I missing something here?
You must select a layer (in this case the group of individual panes)
in order to apply Carousel. Carousel will only apply to a layer.
See Step 4 in the directions – that’s the key here.
Walter
On Jul 14, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Brisprad wrote:
Hi,
I’m trying to set up a carousel action on one of my pages and am
having difficulties. I can see the Carousel Button and Carousel Tab
actions but am I missing the Carousel action itself? I looked at
this thread and it seems that way: http://www.freewaytalk.net/
thread/view/30348#m_30350
I’ve looked under page actions and didn’t see it. I’ve tried to
follow Walter’s tutorial (which is very easy to understand!) on his
homepage for the action and even reinstalled the Protaculous files
from his site. Am I missing something here?
Thanks once again Walter! I went back and tried it again following your directions precisely and got it. This is a really neat effect. Thank you for taking the time to make something so cool.
Where do you find time to write and update actions as well as run your own company and post so much here helping others? Do you sleep?
Thanks again!
Brian
On 14 Jul 2008, 5:11 pm, waltd wrote:
You must select a layer (in this case the group of individual panes)
in order to apply Carousel. Carousel will only apply to a layer.
See Step 4 in the directions – that’s the key here.
I must be dense today, because this should be simple.
I created an HTML box (Box1).
Then I created another HTML box within Box1 (Box2 and Layer1).
Then I duplicated Box2 twice (Box3 & Box4)
I grouped Box1,2,3 (Layer2)
I try applying an Item:Action to Layer2 and there is no Carousel action. I also tried applying it to Layer1, no dice.
I created a graphic box and can apply the Carousel Button and Tab actions to it (obviously doesn’t do anything without the main action).
With that box selected, use Edit > Duplicate to make 3 more just like it. Use offsets of 0,0 to be sure that there is no position change between them.
Click on the header at the top of the Site pane until it shows the items in the page (rather than the entire site).
At this point, you should see a list of four items in the Site pane:
item1
item1a
item1b
item1c
Click on each item within that list in turn, and change its color using the Inspector so that each one is a different color.
Now drag a selection rectangle around one corner of the stack (or use Shift-click to select all of the elements within the Site pane), and use Item > Group from the main menu to group the elements together. (One possibility here is that you are using the Mac-standard Apple-G for Group, which is unfortunately not the case in Freeway). With the group selected, try applying the Carousel action to the group.
I suspect what might be happening here is that you have more than one thing selected when you are trying to apply the Action. Grouping the elements gives you one logical object to attach the Action to.
Well I followed your steps exactly and I am still not seeing the Carousel action. When I look in my Library/Application Support/Freeway folder I see the Protaculous action. In fact I deleted it and re-installed it.
I did create it correctly originally (I understand how to group properly), but started from scratch just to double check I didn’t have something wrong.
I cannot get the action to pull up on my page even though I can get it to work fine on a blank page. The only difference I can see is my page has a CSS menu.
This page does not have the Carousel or the Carousel button applied anywhere that I can see. I can see where you want to have it, but it doesn’t appear to have worked. The glider.js library is not applied to the head of the page, and the various functions that Carousel would write are not in there either.
Yes, I know. I am not getting the actions to show in the Items:Actions list for this page. I don’t know if there is some conflict going on that won’t allow Carousel.
Yes, I believe it is a layer. I created an HTML box and then added some HTML and Graphic child boxes within it, duplicated it, and grouped them together. The grouped item appears to be on the ‘highest’ layer level, judging by the box next to its name (it is as far left as any other layer other than the Page icon).
I don’t know how to see what HTML level the page is set to. If you mean the page icon in the list, it is the furthest to the left/highest level.
