Carousel help

Try setting the page (in the Output tab of the Inspector) to XHTML rather than HTML 4. See if that makes any difference. It appears as though the elements you are trying to affect are layers, but it’s hard to say what might be affecting you here.

If you can’t even see the Action in Freeway, you might want to restart your computer.

Carousel will only apply to a single layer, so to get it to attach to all of the layers in your carousel stack, you must group that stack together, and not include anything else in that initial group.

Carousel button will only apply to an image. If you have any other wrapper around the image, or anything else selected at the same time, it also won’t work.

Walter


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There must be something in the Master page causing a conflict. I can create the exact elements in a blank page and get Carousel to work, but in my Master page it doesn’t even allow the actions.

Anything to do with the HTML type? I hadn’t even looked at that when setting up my Master page. I see it is set as HTML 4.0.1 Transitional. Then again, the blank pages I get it work in are the same type.

My Master page has Rollovers (ah, dang it). Does this mean I’m out of luck? Every page has tabs in the main navigation menu with rollovers. I think I read something about a conflict, but I thought it was if you used tabs in conjunction with Carousel.

I was planning on a heavy usage of Carousel, but I really need rollovers with my main tabs. If my reasoning about a conflict is true, any suggestions?


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So you are trying to make the Carousel on the Master Page itself? Are you able to make a working Carousel on a child page that is based on this master?

I’ve never experimented with making one directly on a master page before, but there are some weird behaviors with Freeway and Actions in Master Pages. But mostly those have to do with page actions, not with item actions.

Try leaving the Carousel off of the Master Page, draw one on a child page, and when you have it working to your liking, then you can copy and paste it to as many other pages as you need.

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No I am not trying to apply it to the Master page. What I mean is each page I create uses the Master which has rollovers.

Switching to XHTML did not help.

I am going to re-boot and see if it helps.

Thanks.

BTW, how do you move a selection of items with the mouse instead of the keyboard?


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I re-booted the machine.

Ok, I created a second blank Master Page and dragged it into the site folder. Carousel still doesn’t show up.

Just to prove I am doing it right, I again created a new site and was able to build a Carousel no problem.

This is killing me. I know it must be some little item I am not figuring out. What the heck is going on?

Thanks.


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Can you please make a failing document with as few pages/elements as possible, and send it to me with http://senduit.com ? I can’t reproduce this here. Also, please include a Finder copy of the version of Protaculous.fwactionb that you have in your ~/Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions/General folder.

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Also, to move a group using the mouse, you hover your cursor over any edge until the pointer becomes hollow. If you click at that point, you can drag the entire thing around. It’s a bit fiddly, but it works.

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Walt,

I won’t be able to get this to you until tomorrow - I’m sure you are waiting anxiously.

Thank you very much.


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Funny thing. I copied the contents of one of the pages to send and it allowed Carousel in the new file page!

Here is the link to the file in senduit: http://senduit.com/fa3ea2

This is from the original file and still does not allow Carousel. I still hope you can figure it out so I don’t have to copy and paste all my pages over, one by one. Plus I’d like to know what happened.

Do you need the media files or anything else?

Thanks.


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I can see the Action and apply it on the page objects in your file. I
have a newer (unreleased) version of Carousel here, but the basic
premise is the same. So I think the issue is on your computer in
interaction with this file.

Make sure that you are using the main menu to apply the Action –
there is an issue with this Action and using the [ + ] thing on the
Actions palette when applying the action to individual items on the
page.

Walter

On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:30 AM, george wrote:

Funny thing. I copied the contents of one of the pages to send and
it allowed Carousel in the new file page!

Here is the link to the file in senduit: http://senduit.com/fa3ea2

This is from the original file and still does not allow Carousel.
I still hope you can figure it out so I don’t have to copy and
paste all my pages over, one by one. Plus I’d like to know what
happened.

Do you need the media files or anything else?

Thanks.


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I don’t see how it can be the computer since I can get the actions to work in new files.

There must be something corrupted in the original file. Oh well, at least it works. Just a pain to copy everything over into a new file.

Yes, I have been using the main menu to apply the actions.

Thank you very much for all of your time dealing with this.

BTW, are rollovers allowed with the Tab action?


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The Carousel Tab Action doesn’t “see” the URL added by the Rollover
Action, and so wraps that link with another link. I would need to
substantially rewrite Tab to make it look for an enclosing link, and
modify that rather than blindly wrapping the image with a link. I’m
not sure if the link added by the Rollover would “appear” to the Tab
Action in the same way that a manually-created link would do.

If you know the ID of each pane, you could work around this by making
the tabs manually:

  1. Make your rollover tabs as you would normally.
  2. Group them, then select the group, choose Item / Extended from the
    main menu, and add a new property to the DIV named ‘class’ with the
    value ‘controls’
  3. On each rollover tab, set the URL to be #theIdOfThePane (hash
    followed by whatever is in the Title field in the Inspector when the
    target pane is selected)

That should do the trick until I can spend some more “quality time”
with Carousel.

Walter

On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:28 PM, george wrote:

BTW, are rollovers allowed with the Tab action?


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Hi all,

I have read a few threads on the excellent Carousel, and rather than start a new one, I will ask another relevant question here.

I have set up a test page, just with a couple of layers to scroll between. As soon as I group and then apply the Item>Carousel action to that group, the position of all of the content drops down about 10px when previewed in a browser, but the main html holder box (within which are all the children) stays where it is. If I preview before applying the Carousel action, the position is correct.

It is causing me a problem because the holder html box is coloured white and sits on an overall background colour. I know I can get around it by not filling the holder with white, and having that as a separate background element, but this is puzzling.

Is this known?

Jonathan


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Could you post a link to your page showing the problem? Also, if you
are using any controls (buttons or tabs) to switch the carousel
between panes, you must group them with the Carousel as well.

So working from outside in, it would be like this:

Group
	Tab1
	Tab2
	Tab3
	Group (with Carousel applied to it)
		Pane1
		Pane2
		Pane3
	/Group
	Button1
	Button2
/Group

Walter

On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Jonathan Riddle wrote:

I have set up a test page, just with a couple of layers to scroll
between. As soon as I group and then apply the Item>Carousel action
to that group, the position of all of the content drops down about
10px when previewed in a browser, but the main html holder box
(within which are all the children) stays where it is.


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Hi Walter,

I am not using any tabs or other controls other than arrows.

I think what was causing the problem was how I had the child boxes set up within the main html box holder. So, as soon as I imported an image into my main box, it kicked the other boxes out of alignment. I have got around it by inserting another box into the box I was originally importing the image into, and then putting the image into that extra box - and it has fixed it. Naughty children!

It is an very, very good action. Things have moved on sooo much since I last regularly worked on websites.

Thanks.

Jonathan


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