I am having a problem with the Target/Show hide layer and sequence timer actions. My goal is that I want to have some news text fading on my home page. I have followed the tutorial from softpress and I created exactly what I want, well not exactly, as I wanted when someone hover over the text the fading to stop, but I am not sure how to go about this. So, the problem is that everything was working until I have added some more content to the home page such as the textlink style action only. Now when I preview the home page is firefox I can see only the trigger 1. showing, but the other two are missing. If I preview this in safari it is ok and all 3 triggers are working. Its weird that it used to work in firefox, but for some reason now it didn’t.
Can I use some other action/s for what I am trying to achieve? I just want to have some text fading and changing in loop mode, but when someone hover it to stop changing so that they can read the text and click the link. Its not very difficult I guess, but I am still learning freeway and I love it!
Have a look at Walter’s NewsCycle action - it doesn’t stop when you roll over but the duration is adjustable to give folk plenty of time to read content.
This is probably the hardest task I come through with freeway, I just can’t understand, what should I do. The tutorial is a bit complex, I need just a simple text fading. Any other ways to do this? Or please could you explain how I go about this?
Hey I found what was the problem with Target/Show hide layer and the Sequence timer.
It was the addthis button! If I remove the freeway native addthis button its works and text is changing and fading in firefox. But this is very weird why it is working in safari with or without the add this button, but it isn’t working in firefox if I have an addthis button on the page? Is there a way I can isolate the addthis button? I don’t want to remove this button from my homepage.
Hi Michael,
I’ve tried to reproduce this with Firefox 6 and 5 and they both appear to work OK. Add the AddThis Action back in and try changing the ‘Find Targets’ option in the Sequence Timer Action from ‘top’ to ‘this’ and see if that helps at all.
Regards,
Tim.
On 22 Sep 2011, at 11:13, Michael Coldereo wrote:
It was the addthis button! If I remove the freeway native addthis button its works and text is changing and fading in firefox. But this is very weird why it is working in safari with or without the add this button, but it isn’t working in firefox if I have an addthis button on the page? Is there a way I can isolate the addthis button? I don’t want to remove this button from my homepage.
I tried what you recommended, but I still can’t get this to work in firefox. I am using Firefox 3.6.22 and I even tried to remove the native addthis button and added markup item with the code from the addthis site, but again if I remove the markup it works, if not it isn’t working in firefox. Probably, I have to upload the page first? I am not sure?
I just updated my firefox to the latest version! Unlucky me, I still have this problem with the addthis button, if I remove it it works, if not again I see only my first trigger text, the other two are just not showing! I am stuck, and this is a home page so I need both the addthis and the fading news,
On 22 Sep 2011, 7:46 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
I am using Firefox 3.6.22
FF is now at V 6.0.2 - you are way behind the times!
FF users also tend to upgrade their browser far more frequently than IE users do.
Does the AddThis code create an iframe on the page? The page inside that iframe may be trying to peek out into the parent page, and that’s not allowed.
Hi Walter,
Yes, it does. Both this as well as most of the Social Media Actions create iFrames via scripts which can throw errors like this with certain other scripts.
Regards,
Tim.
On 23 Sep 2011, at 03:06, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Does the AddThis code create an iframe on the page?