is there a tutorial somewhere for this newbie regarding how to create a scrollable text and/or graphic box?
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If you draw an HTML box, put more content into it than will fit (text, usually, but I mean here inline content as opposed to static drawn-in-place content) and then set the Overflow picker on the Inspector to “Scroll” or “Auto”, you will get the scrolling behavior. If you want a graphic box to scroll, you must do the following, in this order:
- Draw an HTML box the size that you want to show (make sure that you allow at least 24px for the scrollbar in the orientation where you expect the scrollbar to appear).
- Select your graphic element that you want to be able to scroll and cut it to the clipboard.
- Double-click inside the HTML box from step 1 until you see a flashing text cursor (i-beam) and paste.
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On May 21, 2013, at 6:43 AM, Scott Varga wrote:
is there a tutorial somewhere for this newbie regarding how to create a scrollable text and/or graphic box?
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hello
i’m new in freeway, and i’m using your tutorial to create a scrolling tact. I just don’t understand why my typography changes when i preview the page. I’m using helvetica neue light, and in the preview mode it gives me helvetica neue regular. Do i have a solution for my typography not to change?
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This is probably not related to the fact that the element is scrolling. Can you try again with a regular HTML box drawn on the page. Type a few words in it and preview in a browser. If you are not seeing the Helvetica Neue Light, then it’s most likely due to how your font-family attribute (in the page’s CSS) is being constructed.
Some things to consider here:
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Only you (or anyone else who has installed the precisely-the-same-name font as you) will be able to see what you designed, unless you use a Web font like those installed by Google Web Fonts or Caxton or TypeKit. (There are Actions for some of these, look on ActionsForge for more info.)
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When you choose a font like this, it is always best to provide a set of fallbacks, so that the first match in the set “wins”. For example, here is my font-family for Helvetica Neue:
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;When you define a font-family in Freeway, you need to use quotes and commas as I have done here to separate the different fonts you will accept. (Multiple-word names must be surrounded with quotes, or else the browser will be confused.) -
Some browsers will want you to use the “human” name for the font, and others will want the PostScript or TrueType name for the font (this is becoming less prevalent, thankfully) so you may need to include both:
"Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, ...as an alternate. You can find these names in your font manager.
Walter
On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Juliana wrote:
hello
i’m new in freeway, and i’m using your tutorial to create a scrolling tact. I just don’t understand why my typography changes when i preview the page. I’m using helvetica neue light, and in the preview mode it gives me helvetica neue regular. Do i have a solution for my typography not to change?
Juliana
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Hey Walter,
I don’t know why this doesn’t work… in fact, when I type the font-family, i have as a result in preview Times. I tried even with Helvetica, not Helvetica-Neue and it still gives me that result. Would you be able to help me please?
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Hi Juliana,
Make sure your Alternative Fonts in the Edit Fonts dialog are set correctly. Helvetica Neue has a space in it so needs quote marks around it:
“Helvetica Neue”, sans-serif
Joe
On 20 Jun 2013, at 09:58, Juliana email@hidden wrote:
Hey Walter,
I don’t know why this doesn’t work… in fact, when I type the font-family, i have as a result in preview Times. I tried even with Helvetica, not Helvetica-Neue and it still gives me that result. Would you be able to help me please?
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for your answer, but it still doesn’t work… It never shows helvetica neue light in the preview mode.
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Did you choose that font in the Screen Font segment of the Edit / Font Sets dialog? If you see Times Roman or similar while designing, that’s because the screen font wasn’t chosen properly in this dialog. If you don’t see the font on a Web preview, then it’s down to how your alternates list is constructed. This must be in the following form:
"Multiple Word Name", Single-word-name, [repeat as many times as needed], sans-serif
The last thing must be the generic style name, either sans-serif, serif, or mono. Your browser will need to be able to pick up these fonts, and since you can’t control someone else’s browser, you will need to create a sufficient cascade of alternate fonts so that one of them will “hit” before you get to the ultimate fall-back.
I’ve posted my cascade for Lucida Grande before, here it is again for example:
"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Lucida, sans-serif
Each option is specifically in the order I prefer to fall back. If I wanted to, I could add a few more MS-specific fallback options in there, like maybe Tahoma, to ensure that they didn’t fall all the way into the Pit of Arial.
Walter
On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Juliana wrote:
Hi Joe,
Thanks for your answer, but it still doesn’t work… It never shows helvetica neue light in the preview mode.
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