how to set up next/back arrows so that I can display photos within a graphic box on the same page. I can either click next to see a new photo or back to see the last
thanks, stephen
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Hi
Stephen
If you are looking for something like this
http://www.tardiffphotography.com/chris.html
It was done with the Walter’s Carousel action - A fine piece of work and easy to implement
See the thread
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/15843#m_15843
for more info
David
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I am simply trying to be able to roll onto a thumbnail and when I do the full size image will appear on the larger size box next to it. What I’ve read that I don’t understand is after I import the thumbnail in the small graphic box do I also drop the full size image into the large full size box as well and then apply the actions, or do I just place the thumbnail and then apply the actions!
Also how do I import an html sliced image into an existing graphic box? I also tried to bring a sliced image into a a two cell table and it wouldn’t let me.
Thanks again.
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Is this what you want
http://www.tardiffphotography.com/testpages/anotest.html
The small images are simple rollovers while the larger ones in the top are images with show/hide image action applied
The lower larger images are layers with show/hide layer action applied.
Select the trigger from the rollover to coincide with the image below indigo/indigo, rose/rose etc.
On the larger image select Initially:Hidden in the action inspector so that it wont display until triggered.
So rollover action to thumbnails and show/hide action on larger images.
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I’ll give it a shot, thanks!
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Sometime around 23/12/07 (at 10:32 -0500) s baum said:
I am simply trying to be able to roll onto a thumbnail and when I do
the full size image will appear on the larger size box next to it.
What I’ve read that I don’t understand is after I import the
thumbnail in the small graphic box do I also drop the full size
image into the large full size box as well and then apply the
actions, or do I just place the thumbnail and then apply the actions!
Here’s one way to do it:
Import your full-size image into its own box.
Choose Item > Actions > Slave Show/Hide Image to apply the “Slave
Show/Hide Image” action to the large image.
Open the Actions palette and set ‘Initially’ to Hidden.
Note that the Slave Group is “Indigo” and Slave # is “1”. This allows
for multiple items to be shown and hidden, but don’t worry about that
for the moment.
Select your thumbnail and choose Item > Actions > Rollover to
apply the standard rollover action to it.
In the Actions palette, click the Parameters tab to show the popup
menu set of controls.
The Slave Group is already set to Indigo, the default. If you want
to show the large image when someone just ‘rolls over’ the thumbnail,
set the MouseOver popup menu to “1”, the same slave number as your
image. If you want to show the large image when someone clicks on the
thumbnail instead, set the Click to “1”.
That’s it, you’re done!
The slave group and slave number can be used to manage sets of
different images to hide and show. If you had five thumbnails and
five larger images, you would set each one to use the SAME slavegroup
but DIFFERENT slave numbers. When a visitor triggers one, the message
that the browser gets is sent to all items in that group, and it sets
the item with the specific slave number to its ‘non-initial’ state
and the other numbers within that group to their initial, default
state. In other words, for your setup it would hide any items set to
be in the same slave group but show the one with the right slave
number.
And if you have another set of images set to use a DIFFERENT slave
group, you can have entirely separate sets of hide/show triggers that
don’t reset each other. Cool, huh?
Practise. 
Where things can go wrong: watch out for graphics being overlaid and
merging. The output will be a single composite graphic, and any code
applied in the above steps will work on that whole item, not just the
individual item you select. That’s IF the graphics are set to combine
rather than be sliced. See below for slicing info…
Also how do I import an html sliced image into an existing graphic
box? I also tried to bring a sliced image into a a two cell table
and it wouldn’t let me.
First of all, why are you bringing in sliced objects? It is actually
almost always better to bring in your iunsliced image and slice it in
Freeway if required. The slicing is done ‘virtually’, and can be
adjusted very easily right in the page layout.
Import your original unsliced image. If the real original is a
native Photoshop document (and you’re using Freeway Pro) then just
import that! DON’T import a pre-compressed JPEG; in order to slice it
in Freeway it will have to be re-optimised for web by Freeway - which
means recreating the JPEG - which means another lossy compression
stage - which results in further lossy damage to the image.
Make sure it is UNlayered. This can be done with layered items if
they’re grouped together, but that is slightly more involved. (If
you’re using Freeway Express then I don’t believe you have to worry
about this point at all.)
Place another graphic box - again, unlayered - on top of the first
one, positioned where you want a slice section to be.
In the Imspector palette, UNCHECK the ‘Combine Graphics’ option.
This tells Freeway not to produce a single overall graphic item,
slicing it along the boundaries of the selected graphic instead.
When you preview/publish your page the final result will be
web-ready, web-optimised graphics that are produced from the
stacked-up collection of graphic objects but sliced into multiple
images.
Want to change the slice area? Just move or reshape the ‘uncombined’
box or boxes. Easy, non-destructive, and all in your page layout.
Merry Christmas!
k (nursing a Christmas throat and on antibiotics for the season. Bah humbug!)
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One last question hopefully, is is true that the only way to see if my links and actions are fully working is publishing via ftp and viewing live? thanks again
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You should just be able to ‘Preview in Browser’ to see everything working.
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Sometime around 23/12/07 (at 16:30 -0500) s baum said:
One last question hopefully, is is true that the only way to see if
my links and actions are fully working is publishing via ftp and
viewing live?
Hi - have you tried the Preview option in the File menu?
(And I do hope you’re using Freeway to upload when you do that.
You’re welcome to do it with third-party tools, but you don’t get the
benefit of Freeway’s file management.)
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thanks for all the great help! this is probably a stupid question but on the slave window that holds my large graphic, do I pile each slave on top of each other so when I mouse over each thumbnail the larger images appear in the same spot?
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Sometime around 23/12/07 (at 17:50 -0500) s baum said:
on the slave window that holds my large graphic, do I pile each
slave on top of each other so when I mouse over each thumbnail the
larger images appear in the same spot?
You’re doing this in a separate window?
Assuming you don’t actually mean a window, yes: pile the images in
one big stack. You could make each a layer and use the Slave
Show/Hide Layer action if you like. It might simplify things a little.
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thanks again, really.
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