iFrame

Thanks to you all, but I have done all the above

You see I have 5 separate scrolls to fit on one page each to link to iFrame on the same page with arrows to scroll and stop it. This is my problem. I di not know howe to connect them all so it all triggers into the iFrame

On 7 Feb. 2008, 7:46 am, grantsymon wrote:

Carla,

try breaking it all down to find out what’s going wrong.

Make a fresh empty page in FW and place an iFrame on the page.

Upload your iFrame content to your server (or have it locally, but you still need the address … remembering that when you publish, unless it is accessible via the internet, it will not be available to your site’s visitors)

In the Actions palette, set the URL for the content.

Preview it in your browser.

That should work. Now apply the same process to your normal page. If it doesn’t work, then I’d suggest making a copy of the page, then slowly stripping bits away until you find out what’s causing the problem.

N.B. iFrame will not publish if any other elements are sitting on top of it.

Grant


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Hi Carla

I have been looking at this myself as I haven’t used iFrames except in their basic form andI couldn’t get it to work either.

…what you do is highlight the link for each url in your list > then press command (apple) + k to open the hyperlink dialogue box > then choose your link url - either internal or external > press the extended button > then press new > in the name box type “target” ( without the quotes ) > then in the value box type the name of your iframe on the page ( i.e. iframe, fred, or whatever” ) > then type ok > and ok again.

The critical part is this

the name of your iframe on the page

Now this is the value that you put in the iFrame action inspector pane and NOT what the iFrame is called in the Item General Settings of the Page Inspector

URL:

Scrolling:

Alignment:

Frame border:

Margin width:

Margin height:

Name: My iFrame Name

So to target your iFrame from your link you would have

the name box type “target” (without the quotes) > then in the value box type the name of your iframe which in this case would be “My iFrame Name” without the quotes of course.

Hope that this does the trick for you - it did it for me. On top of everything else of course.

David


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Thanks David
I have tried this too and the link continues to take me to the page, and not inside frame… I am getting close. I know I am not doing one thing.,…

Ugh
well I will keep trying
Thx so very much

Carla


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Dave I tried again and it is working You are fantastic!

Ok now all I need is a stop button for the scrolls
Thanks


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Hi

I am pleased that we were able to help.

Remember to post a link so that we can have a look at your hard work!

David


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David

I will absolutely send you all the link to our website once I upload it.
Does anyone have an idea how to make the scroll stop, so one can look at an image longer… wow… am I a dodo or what. I can not figure this out!

You are all wonderful

Carla


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My site is now up and running with the iFrame and bananAlbum working really well together.

Walter … you are now free to take a look! :slight_smile:

Thanks Beatrice for the help. It made this much easier

You can see the effect here :

NB, some of the content in the ‘Patates’ page and the ‘Mix’ page has yet to be updated for the larger image size I’m now using. So it may seem ‘mushy’ and slightly pixelated.

Also and FWIW, I’m using Aperture via a free plugin for bananAlbum (works with iPhoto too) to create the albums, which makes it really easy and gives great control. I’m also using .Mac to host the site, which is equally easy with the built-in support in FW and happily I find that hosting a site on .Mac is very fast these days. It used to be unusably slow.

Question …

I have a number of photographer chums who are interested in building sites like mine … does the iFrame Action work with FW Express?? (It’s really hard to find any clear explanations on the Softpress site).

Grant


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It looks really good. Does nothing useful for my diet, though. One
question – the orange stripe at the top of the navigation – is that
meant to move along to show which of the galleries you are viewing? I
thought it might, but then it didn’t.

Man, do I miss food photography!

Walter

On Feb 13, 2008, at 5:55 AM, grantsymon wrote:

Walter … you are now free to take a look! :slight_smile:


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On 13 Feb. 2008, 11:44 am, waltd wrote:

the orange stripe at the top of the navigation – is that
meant to move along to show which of the galleries you are viewing?

Hi Walter,

no … it’s not, but now I see why you would think so. It was intended as a simple way of highlighting my most recent work. However, now that you mention it, that would be quite nice to have. Any tips on the absolute simplest way of doing it, with the least performance hit? :slight_smile:

Sorry about enticing your tummy to grow. :slight_smile:

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Since there’s no practical connection between the iFrame and the rest
of your page, the easiest way to manage this would be to use a
Rollover in Click mode. The two events (click here and particular
page load in iFrame) would be synchronized, but not driven by one
another.

You could also use this same Rollover to make the navigation
“flutter” when you mouse over it, so it looks more active. I would
set the button to roll over to a slightly lighter-color version of
itself, and then to Click to the orange state.

The more precise way to do this would be to set a JavaScript observer
on the iFrame, and then change the current navigation tab when the
source of the iFrame changes. But that’s quite a lot of fiddling for
very little incremental improvement.

Walter

On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:52 AM, grantsymon wrote:

On 13 Feb. 2008, 11:44 am, waltd wrote:

the orange stripe at the top of the navigation – is that
meant to move along to show which of the galleries you are viewing?

Hi Walter,

no … it’s not, but now I see why you would think so. It was
intended as a simple way of highlighting my most recent work.
However, now that you mention it, that would be quite nice to
have. Any tips on the absolute simplest way of doing it, with the
least performance hit? :slight_smile:

Sorry about enticing your tummy to grow. :slight_smile:

Grant


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Hi Walter … I went for the simplest route, by simply changing the colour of the buttons according to the page. But I think you’re right. It definitely aids navigation.

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Just received this in the Softpress email newsletter. I used the same technique described below for my 13 year old son’s photography portfolio http://lucaventer.com/

Freeway Tricks - Embedding a photo gallery from Aperture or iPhoto into a Freeway page
Are you an Aperture or iPhoto user? Do you want to embed rich media galleries into your Freeway page? If so, the secret is iFrames.

iFrames are a standard web convention which allow you to embed a webpage into another page. Read more about them at wikipedia. They’re fairly easy to set up and there’s a Freeway Action to make it even easier. Get the Action here. http://www.softpress.com/kb/article.php?id=196

Next, make and post your slideshow. From Aperture or iPhoto, create an album of images you’d like to use or select one you already have. There’s no limit to the number of images you can use, so have at it! Using the free Flash Album Exporter http://flashalbumexporter.home.comcast.net, export your album to a folder. Next, simply upload this to your web server using an FTP client (we love Transmit, but anything will work here). Be sure to make a note of the URL for the gallery you’ve just created (for example - mywebserver.com/gallery/).

Back in Freeway, choose a blank area in your page for the gallery. Choose Insert>Action Item>iFrame. Make the box as big as you like, then select the Action Inspector from the Window menu. Enter the URL for your gallery, customize the display settings, and publish your site. That’s it!


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Not sure why my previous post ended in this topic, I was replying to Steve Curran’s question about a photo gallery http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/28000#latest


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With reference to the newsletter I can’t get the Flash Album Exporter to install. I have followed the instructions to the letter, but the new tab as described in the instructions to allow me to create the folder to put on the FTP will not show up in iPhoto.

Does Flash Album Exporter work with Leopard?


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A BananaAlbum slideshow in an iFrame works in Safari and IE but not FireFox. In FireFox the photo borders show where the thumbs should be, but the thumbs are black, no photo is visible. Does FireFox need a plugin for this to work?

page is here: http://www.edgeoutreach.com/bananatest.html

I’m using FW Pro 4.2.2.


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It doesn’t look like the iFrame causes the problem, here’s the page in
the iFrame and it displays the same behavior:

http://www.edgeoutreach.com/PureWater/

I would contact Adobe? or whoever it is makes the Bananlbum to find
out what could be causing the problem.

Cheers,

Joe

On 6 Mar 2008, at 16:51, troubadour wrote:

A BananaAlbum slideshow in an iFrame works in Safari and IE but not
FireFox. In FireFox the photo borders show where the thumbs should
be, but the thumbs are black, no photo is visible. Does FireFox need
a plugin for this to work?

page is here: http://www.edgeoutreach.com/bananatest.html

I’m using FW Pro 4.2.2.


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Thanks Joe for pointing this out. I’ve sent in inquiry to BananAlbum about the issue. I’ll post the response.


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