Is there any way to modify Carousel to do the following?
I’d like to develop a four panel display but only show 2-of-4 at a time. That is, the full panel could contain the 4 HTML items housed in a parent HTML item:
A B C D
Each HTML item could contain virtually anything (HTML, text, graphics, video, etc.).
Currently Carousel would display three separate items in the following manner (where “[” and “]” represent the left an right frame edges respectively):
[ A ] click begins the slide [A B ] finishing at [ B ]
What I would like to accomplish is to display two of these items at a time as follows:
[ A B ] slides through [A B C] finishing with [ B C ]
Clicking again would give you [ C D ] (you could never have [ D A]).
One example of the use for each item (A, B, C, & D) is a menu to the next. A giant menu/bread crumb trail if you would. An example of the effect (created in Director) can be seen here http://sideways.griphus.com
Not being a coder, I don’t know if this is asking too much of Carousel, or if there is another ‘easy’ way to accomplish this.
Any thoughts or suggestions on how to accomplish this effect would be greatly appreciated.
Robert
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I think you can forget modifying Carousel to do this - it wasn’t built with that in mind.
You could have your Carousel where some panes were duplicated ie pane 1 has sections A and B, pane 2 B and C, Pane 3 C and D etc.
David
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David,
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve already attempted this (if I’m understanding your approach). The only problem with your thought is that there really is an A, B1, B2, C1 etc.
When moving from [ A B ] to [ B C ], what you actually see is a transition of [ A B B1 C ] in order to land at [ B1 C ]. In essence, one must duplicate the left and right appearing elements of each pane. In addition to looking a bit odd, any changes to X need to be replicated in X1.
I really don’t care which actions I use to achieve this effect, just that I can figure out a way to do it.
Robert
On 18 May 2011, 7:36 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
I think you can forget modifying Carousel to do this - it wasn’t built with that in mind.
You could have your Carousel where some panes were duplicated ie pane 1 has sections A and B, pane 2 B and C, Pane 3 C and D etc.
David
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Hi Robert
Just watched the video - didn’t realise that this was the same framed carousel that you were working on.
I can’t help feeling that you are trying to over design/engineer things
From your video it looks like you want this to be like a menu structure. So ultimately do you want a selection in pane 3 to change content in pane 4?
If so I think that the whole construction will become just too unwieldy to manage in FW.
If that is not the ultimate goal…
D
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David,
It was a previously designed concept direction for a stand-alone application. I’ve been struggling with those involved to get to explain some of the webs functional limitations.
Unfortunately, I think your summation is correct.
Robert
I can’t help feeling that you are trying to over design/engineer things
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