I am trying to apply Scripty Lightbox 2 to each of the books to provide a preview. Every time I apply the action to the front cover graphic, it instead applies it to the ‘bookshelf’ graphic. If I re-order the graphics I am able to apply the action, however when returning to the preferred order, it doesn’t work. This applies for any action that I apply.
Make sure that your bookshelf graphic and your book graphic are both either set to Layer or to CSS in the Inspector. What you’re describing sounds a lot like they are not individual DIVs, which is why the Action is getting confused.
Walter
On Nov 13, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Sebastian Crewe-Turrell wrote:
Hi all,
Another day another problem.
(click choose books at the top of the page)
I am trying to apply Scripty Lightbox 2 to each of the books to provide a preview. Every time I apply the action to the front cover graphic, it instead applies it to the ‘bookshelf’ graphic. If I re-order the graphics I am able to apply the action, however when returning to the preferred order, it doesn’t work. This applies for any action that I apply.
My problem is that when I click on ‘css’ for my outer container with the accordion action applied to it and then check my graphics as layers my accordion stops working.
If you’re using ScriptyAccordion for this, can you cut this down to a single page in Freeway, and e-mail it to me? I’m having trouble visualizing what is going on here. If you’re not using SA, then I am not sure I know where to start. Some more detail about exactly how you are making your accordion effect would be very helpful.
I don’t have that Action here. Also, that suite of Actions hasn’t been updated since 2009, and Weaver seems to have left the community. You might want to look at using a different technique, perhaps the built in TransitionFX Action. You’re not doing an accordion per se, just blind-down exposing a single element on the page. That’s what TransitionFX is built to do.
Walter
On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Sebastian Crewe-Turrell wrote:
I am using the Accordion part of the sFX actions suite.
I am then using the sFX accordion trigger action for the “choose your book” text.
I’ll stick it in a single doc and email it over if thats ok with you?
Sure. Make sure that both the expando content and the remainder of the page content are inline within a larger parent element. That way when the top element grows in height from 0 (hidden) it can push the rest of the page down.
Apply the TransitionFX Action to the element you want to have trigger the show/hide behavior, not the element you want to have expand or shrink. In the Action interface, check “On Trigger”, choose Effect “Blind Down”, check “Toggle”, choose Item [your expando item] and check “Initially Hidden”. The rest can be left at defaults to start.
This is one example of why an inline layout style is worth learning how to do. There’s just no equivalent in a CSS-positioned layout.
Walter
On Nov 13, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Sebastian Crewe-Turrell wrote:
Thanks Walter.
So am I able to use transitionFX in this instance (in terms of making it push my other content down the page and then retracting when closed?