Is there a Freeway action that will allow me to rotate a series of 3 images every 5 or so seconds? Maybe with a transitional effect. 
I can’t seem to locate anything available in the “stock” set. Thanks!
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Take a look at my new NewsCycle Action. I think it’s probably the simplest way to do this. Download and install the Action from ActionsForge, then try the following:
Draw an HTML box where you want the image to appear on your page. Size it appropriately to your final image. Double-click inside this box, and choose Insert / Graphic Item from the main menu. Click once on the 100px square that appears inline, and drag out its corner to your desired dimension. You may insert a placeholder image if you like (this will be removed when the page loads) to make it clearer what your layout will look like, or as a fallback for anyone who browses your site with JavaScript disabled.
Elsewhere on your page (out on the pasteboard is good for this) draw a second larger HTML box. Make note of what Freeway names this box, or rename it in the Inspector so you can find it later. Double-click inside this box, and follow the same steps as above to insert an image inline. After you’ve sized and scaled your first image, click once on it and copy. Now double-click on the HTML box so you get a text cursor again, and press the down-arrow until your cursor is after the first image. Press Return, and paste. Repeat as many times as you have additional images. Click once on each image and update its source so your images are all together in this box, each separated from the others by a single return character. (This second box will be hidden on page load, but it will remain in the page. If it is located in a visible part of the page, anyone browsing with JavaScript disabled will still see it.)
Finally, click once on the first HTML box you drew (careful not to actually select the image inside that box) and apply the NewsCycle Action to it. Choose your second box (the name you memorized earlier) from the data source picking list, and set the cycle interval and effect duration as you like. Preview to see the effect.
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Walter,
Many thanks for the help… I’ll give it a shot and report back.
Take care and have a good one!
Cory
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Hi Walter,
Was hoping you might be able to shed a little light on another small issue here.
Seems the site I’m currently working on is clipping the background image on the bottom when viewed on an iPhone… width is just fine, but it’s the length I’m having issues with. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Cory
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A background image will appear beneath all other content, and will
only appear to the extent that there is “foreground” content to cover
it and force the page or element to be a particular height. Mobile
Safari does some clever things with font sizes to force a page to be
more readable, so it’s not always 1:1 with what you see on the
desktop. But one thing is for certain: Mobile Safari will never allow
you to zoom out below the page height. It will zoom out to the point
where you see the full width or full height of the page, but no
further. And page, in its mind (and truly in any browser) is just the
height of the HTML content. When a browser allows you to make the
window larger than the content, it’s just humoring you.
Walter
On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Cory Falter wrote:
Hi Walter,
Was hoping you might be able to shed a little light on another small
issue here.
Seems the site I’m currently working on is clipping the background
image on the bottom when viewed on an iPhone… width is just fine,
but it’s the length I’m having issues with. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Cory
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Walter… thanks again for the great input. It’s been very helpful. Take care, Cory
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Shoot… thought I could trick the background by adding an emtpy html box down on my art a bit. Thought it would display more of the background since there’s more “foreground” there, but no go.
Any suggestions on how I might be able to get that background to extend downward.
Thanks and sorry for the hassle.
Cory
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What’s happening here is that the page is rendering correctly, but the way that Mobile Safari tweaks fonts to make them more readable on the tiny screen is forcing your page to be taller than its background. There’s a few things you could try (one at a time, don’t combine these!).
Add a CSS style to disable font scaling. Use the Page / HTML Markup dialog, in the Before section, and paste in the following code: <style type="text/css"> body { -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; } </style>
Use an inline construction for the body of your page, rather than Freeway’s default CSS-positioned layout. Look at Dan Jasker’s wonderful screencasts on this topic at http://freewaycast.com Dan refers to this construction technique as a box-model layout.
If you have Freeway 5.5, apply the RPL Action to your page. Be sure to read the documentation for this Action at the Softpress site; there are some fine strokes you need to look at carefully when using it, because it makes assumptions about your layout based on gaps between elements, and you need to be certain that you’re telling it what it needs to hear.
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Wow… thanks again Walter.
You’ve been a huge help.
Lastly, do you know of any other sites (other Dan Jasker’s) offering Freeway templates for sale? What a great idea.
Take care, Cory
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