Sure. You probably downloaded it, then downloaded it again. Finder
won’t let you have two files with the same name, so you ended up
installing Protaculous.fwactionb and Procaculolus.1.fwactionb or
something like that. Take a look here:
[your user folder]/Library/Application Support/Freeway [4 or 5]/
Actions/General/
In there you will find all of the Actions you have installed
manually. Delete both copies of Protaculous from there, and install
again.
Walter
On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Carla wrote:
oh and of course one more thing… I installed your carousel action
twice by mistake ( I guess the one I had was the current one)
and the dialog box alerts me that the action is duplicated
I went in and unchecked as i could not find how to delete an action
but it keeps checking itself again…make sense??
Walter
I was wrong…
the scrolling happens whatever I link to. so I have to say I prefer not to have all the images showing up when one wants to see only the image chosen…
well after looking at it I think I am going back to the way I had the carousel before. I kind of made it up by naming the anchors themselves and then hyperlinking the grid images to the anchor .
This way, even if it is wrong looks so much better. The scrolling thru all the images to get to the one picked is disconcerting. Don’t you think?
If you want to do that, don’t add new Anchors to the panes. Just use
the name of the pane in question as a manually-added anchor on the link.
So if you had a pane named foobar, make your link using the External
tab of the Hyperlink dialog, and enter mypage.html#foobar in the
address field.
Now here’s why the Querystring functionality is there. Not only is it
visually cool to have the carousel spin your desired pane into view,
but it also means that if your carousel element is down the page a
bit, the top of your page won’t scroll out of view, which it would in
the case of an anchor url that caused the desired pane to appear.
This behavior doesn’t happen when the anchor is used on the same page
as the Carousel, because the JavaScript on that page grabs these
anchors and extends them so they behave differently. But coming from
a different page, you get the native browser behavior instead.
Try this: Move your carousel way down the page, at least an entire
screen height down. Then move to another page and add an anchor link
to one of the panes of the carousel. When you test this in a browser,
you will see the page appear, then immediately scroll down so that
the carousel is at the top of the browser window. Any global
navigation “above the fold” will be missing entirely on first page view.
Walter
On Mar 23, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Carla wrote:
Hi guys
well after looking at it I think I am going back to the way I had
the carousel before. I kind of made it up by naming the anchors
themselves and then hyperlinking the grid images to the anchor .
This way, even if it is wrong looks so much better. The scrolling
thru all the images to get to the one picked is disconcerting.
Don’t you think?
You wrote that you wanted to go back to the way you were doing things
– defining an anchor on each image using the Freeway “Add Anchor”
menu item. I was reminding you that this will result in confused,
possibly invalid code.
Instead of doing that, simply note the (Freeway) names of each pane
in your carousel.
Then, go to the page where you want to create the links, and instead
of using the Internal tab of the Hyperlink dialog to create your
links, use the External tab. Enter the page with your carousel on it
in the Address field, followed by a # sign and then the name of the
pane you want to be visible on initial page load.
The rest was an explanation for why you might want to use the
function the way it was written; pointing out that if you do things
the way you wanted to, there is an additional browser-default
behavior that you won’t be able to override, one which you might not
have noticed in your own testing.
Hi Walter… don’t mean to be dense here, but I have done exactly what you said to do above… I hyperlinked to an external page and wrote in davidscroll.html?imagename,
but now you say to put in davidscroll.html#imagename
Ok I have an interesting problem for you. My illustrator can not get the navigation of my website as newly constructed to work for him… Other people can, but when he hits his image boxes they go to the scroll page only and not the image chosen. he has emptied the cache etc and nothing works…
Does anyone out there have an idea what could be doing this. he has a new Mac…desktop etc.
Try a different target image. Maybe the one he is clicking on is
not wired up correctly.
Try a different browser, just to rule that out. If he’s using
Safari, try Firefox, and vice-versa.
If he’s using Safari 3, check the preferences/advanced/ Show
Develop menu in menu bar, then turn on Develop/Show error console.
See if anything interesting appears there.
My sense is that it’s either a cache issue* or possibly a coding
error on your part. There may be a single one of the thumbnails that
he prefers and you coded incorrectly. Other people may be clicking on
a different icon and reporting (as I do) that “It works…”
Walter
*Just because your illustrator dumps his browser cache doesn’t mean
that there isn’t another proxy or Web cache between him and your
server. It is all too common, particularly on “home” services like
AOL or EarthLink or InsertNameOfYourPhoneCompanyHere, to have very
aggressive Web proxy servers that store a snapshot of any site you
visit in order to speed up the next user’s view of the same page. It
can take hours or even days for these caches to “stale out” and be
replaced by the current content.
On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Carla wrote:
Ok I have an interesting problem for you. My illustrator can not
get the navigation of my website as newly constructed to work for
him… Other people can, but when he hits his image boxes they go to
the scroll page only and not the image chosen. he has emptied the
cache etc and nothing works…
Does anyone out there have an idea what could be doing this. he has
a new Mac…desktop etc.
I’m a little late to this discussion, and have picked up that Carousel is “a good thing” as we say over here. I have looked at Carla’s example, and have downloaded Protaculous as an Action. I have my copy of Freeway 5, and have been using Freeway 4 up till now, although all my third party Actions are still located in my Freeway 3.5 Folder, so where is the correct location to place the Protaculous Action?
But more importantly, as I haven’t been around for any earlier threads about Carousel, where can I go to see several good examples of what Carousel can create in action? My first early Slideshows I built a slide at a time within the pages created with Freeway 3.5, and latterly while working with Freeway 4 I have been linking to external Slideshows created with Media Pro, the pre MS version. But from what I have seen and read about Carousel this would seem to be the next step up, and I look forward to learning all about what it can do.
As far as installing the Action, the easiest way to do that is to
drag the Action icon over the Freeway icon in your Dock (while
Freeway is running). This will trigger the auto-install behavior,
which puts the Action here:
I’m a little late to this discussion, and have picked up that
Carousel is “a good thing” as we say over here. I have looked at
Carla’s example, and have downloaded Protaculous as an Action. I
have my copy of Freeway 5, and have been using Freeway 4 up till
now, although all my third party Actions are still located in my
Freeway 3.5 Folder, so where is the correct location to place the
Protaculous Action?
But more importantly, as I haven’t been around for any earlier
threads about Carousel, where can I go to see several good examples
of what Carousel can create in action? My first early Slideshows I
built a slide at a time within the pages created with Freeway 3.5,
and latterly while working with Freeway 4 I have been linking to
external Slideshows created with Media Pro, the pre MS version. But
from what I have seen and read about Carousel this would seem to be
the next step up, and I look forward to learning all about what it
can do.