Is it possible to get the carousel action to carry on through the images again rather than jumping back to the start? Or is there another way of doing it if I want that effect?
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Not in Carousel, but ScriptyFader and NewsCycle can both do this trick, just with different animation.
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On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:14 AM, spark wrote:
Is it possible to get the carousel action to carry on through the images again rather than jumping back to the start? Or is there another way of doing it if I want that effect?
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Damn you’re fast!
I’ll look into those others, never used either of them before. The client likes the action, just not the jumping back to the start.
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Key difference between NewsCycle and ScriptyFader is this: Ajax. NewsCycle keeps all of the elements in the page, just like Carousel does, which can be important if you have search engine-worthy content in the individual panes of the effect. However, this means a much larger page, file-size-wise. ScriptyFader removes all of the panes from the page and saves them as external “partial” files, then loads them into the page one at a time using JavaScript. This means that they are entirely not there from a search engine robot’s point of view. The benefit is that the initial page load is much quicker, and there’s no penalty for having a zillion options – your page will only be as large as the rest of the page plus ~220K of JavaScript (which gets cached from site to site, since it’s coming from Google’s CDN). Each additional pane is “lazy-loaded” as requested.
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On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:19 AM, spark wrote:
Damn you’re fast!
I’ll look into those others, never used either of them before. The client likes the action, just not the jumping back to the start.
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I’m going to do it the way I used to do it years ago and use simpleviewer in an iframe. The latest version doesn’t use flash any more so I think it’ll be the best solution.
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use simpleviewer in an iframe. The latest version doesn’t use flash any more so I think it’ll be the best solution.
Not sure that it is the ‘best’ solution - an easy one certainly.
What about Showcase?
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Showcase? I’ll check it out…
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Oh, I’ve worked out what you mean now. No, that does nothing like what I’m after. I just want an image slider, no controls, no thumbnails, no navigation, that loops properly. Basically I want the carousel to have proper looping. And so do loads of others from the threads I’ve been reading. Simpleviewer gets close, but it’s not suite right either. I might have to change to scripty fader and lose the sliding movement.
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There are loads of methods out there to give you what you want but some of them will give you problems in FW
Here is one that is jQuery based - beware of potential javascript conflicts when used on the same page as some of the FW actions.
http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/jQuery/jquery-infinite-carousel3.html
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That looks like the kind of thing. How would I use that in Freeway?
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You would need to do some hand coding because there are no Actions to help you. Would you be comfortable with that?
But beware - if you want to use other FW actions on the same page you will need to be careful because the 2 javascript libraries don’t play well together. Are there other FW actions on the same page? If so what are they?
How many images are you planning to use and at what size? Is it just an autoplay version you want?
If you let me know what version of FW you have and let me have access to your images I could put together an example page for you.
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Hi Dave,
I can do a bit of coding - as in changing other people’s code, so I’m happy to give it a go.
I’ve got the latest version of Freeway Pro. The only other actions on the pages are the run of the mill stuff - rollovers mainly.
789x459px is the slideshow size. I want it to autoplay with no nav and loop back to the start seamlessly.
Thanks for your help by the way.
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let me have access to your images
Pics?
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Watch out for anything in the built-in Actions that mention Effect. Anything that contains a picker for the type of animation effect to use will also use the Prototype/Scriptaculous JavaScript libraries.
While it is possible to also use jQuery with a page that includes “Protaculous” (as that combo is playfully nicknamed), you have to ensure that the jQuery plugins are all written to be compatible with jQuery’s noConflict() method, and you have to write your link to the libraries and noConflict() in a particular order.
But (and this is a huge WHAT ARE YOU THNKING? sort of but) jQuery and Protaculous both do exactly the same thing. Using both of them in the same page is extraordinarily wasteful of your visitors’ time and bandwidth, and all but guarantees that the resulting porky page will run very poorly on an iPhone.
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On Aug 19, 2012, at 3:44 AM, spark wrote:
I’ve got the latest version of Freeway Pro. The only other actions on the pages are the run of the mill stuff - rollovers mainly.
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Dave - just shared a dropbox with you.
Walter - point taken. To be honest, I personally was happy with the page as it was. The client has insisted on the change and made life more difficult. As they do.
As I said, I think the only action on the page is the rollover action so I’m hoping it’ll work ok.
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File uploaded to your Dropbox - let us know how it goes.
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It works like a charm.
Brilliant, thanks Dave.
Walter - don’t fancy writing an action for this do you? 
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There would always be a problem writing an Action that doesn’t use the Core JS library the FW employs.
The chances are that it can be duplicated in Script/protaculous but I think it wo
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Not sure what happened to the rest but…
The chances are that it can be duplicated in Script/protaculous but I think it woould be a new action rather than a rewrite of Carousel - unless Walter has plans for yet another Carousel update?
Where does he find the time.
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For those of you who started this thread and are still interested, we are currently discussing Carousel, ScriptyFader and other alternatives here in the following thread:
http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/15843#m_97118
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