Carousel page bleed

Has anyone had the second pane of a Carousel ‘bleed’ through on the edge of the page?

Any suggestions?


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When you make the Carousel, are you stacking all the panes on top of
each other, or are you spreading them out on the page? I had
initially thought that it would be possible to do the latter, and
even posted some instruction to that end, but after seeing what a
mess that made in some cases, I had to retract it and the “official”
word is currently to stack the panes.

If you are already doing this, then perhaps you could post a link to
your page? I might be able to see what’s going on from there.

Walter

On Sep 12, 2008, at 6:10 PM, george wrote:

Has anyone had the second pane of a Carousel ‘bleed’ through on the
edge of the page?

Any suggestions?


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I am stacking the panes right on top of each other.

Here’s the link:

http://reeltimedvd.com/new_site/effects.html


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It’s probably to do with the fact that you have QuickTime on there. I’m not sure if you are going to be able to use Carousel to hide that from view, because plug-in content doesn’t always hide behind overflow: hidden. You will have the same problem with Flash, too.

Try using a static poster frame for your movies, that will probably hide, since it’s just a JPEG, although it might not, because it’s being displayed by the QuickTime plug-in, and that’s the real problem here.

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When I use Flash videos and select Hidden for overflow I eliminate the bleed through.

I like the static poster frame idea. Can it work in conjunction with Flash?

Also, if I incorporate the page ‘frame’ like shown in the Softpress tutorial do you think that would prevent the bleed through?

Finally, I intend on having my videos (I will have a lot) stored in a database and ‘called up’ when one clicks on the box (similar to how YouTube works). I’m not sure how this works or how I’ll do it, but I want to know if Carousel will work with this before I go to far in my site development.

Thanks.


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The static poster thing is a feature of QuickTime, but you could do something very similar, either with JavaScript or with Flash itself, to make a small Flash movie load a larger one.

The bleed through you are seeing seems to be related to QuickTime, not to anything else, but it’s hard to say. If I get some time I will make a Carousel with movies on it and see if I get a similar problem to you. The frame would not change anything, because the pane content would be hidden in the same way with or without it.

If you have lots of videos, then you will want to use poster frames (for QuickTime) or load them into your page with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript). Otherwise people will be waiting for a very long time for the page to initially load.

The Carousel as it’s written does not have any support for “lazy-loading” the panes as they are requested. That would be really cool. There are other Carousel implementations out there, some of which provide this feature. I don’t know if it would be possible to rip out the core of this Action and replace it with a different implementation. I picked this one because the HTML it starts with is very Freeway-like. It’s a good fit, in other words.

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Thanks.

I will look into Ajax for my videos. I am sure I will be starting some new topics for that.

I am still unsure about my database loading of videos questions. Maybe this needs another topic, but I’ll try here again.

I am not interested in having the Carousel panes load via a database. I would still have the panes in the page. Within the page will be a box that will load a video when someone clicks on it (or a play button). I understand Carousel doesn’t work until all the items are loaded, but want to know if my scenario is possible. I am trying to understand if there is a difference by having a box that loads the video and having the video itself on the pane.

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I understand Carousel doesn’t work until all the items are loaded, but want to know if my scenario is possible. I am trying to understand if there is a difference by having a box that loads the video and having the video itself on the pane.

If you have the video itself on the pane, then you have to wait for the entire video file (times the number of movies that are possible per page) to download before the page will start working.

If you have some sort of loader proxy there in place of the video, then you only have to wait for that proxy to load before the page starts working.

If you can’t get the video to work with Carousel (if it keeps peeking out of the container), then you may have to resort to using an iFrame for the sliding part, or you may have to make some sort of pop-up window scheme where you have a “player” window appear when you click on a poster frame.

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Thanks a lot Walt.


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