[Pro] Scripty Accordion issues again

Well, I incorporated Scripty Accordion onto my website and its doing its job for the most part. However, it has disabled my slideshows (Which I created using Visualslideshow.com®). On one of the pages, the menu shifted its position on the page. If Scripty Accordion is not capable of working alongside VisualSlideshow®, I will just die. (Ok, maybe that was just a little exaggerated). But really, I need help with this.

My link is here: http://lenaosoriogemisic.com/index.html

Slideshows are found on the following pages:

WEDDINGS>Modern
WEDDINGS>Vintage
WEDDINGS>Romantic

Everywhere else (EVENT, GALLERY, ABOUT, CONTACT) the action script works well.


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Somehow, you have inserted an entire additional page inside your
existing page. That page includes links to MooTools, which is a
different JavaScript effects engine than ScriptyAccordion (and the
rest of Freeway) uses. MooTools “forked” off of the Prototype
JavaScript library many years ago, and the two libraries are not
compatible at all, because they use the same names for different
functions.

First of all, you can’t just put an entire page inside another page.
It’s not valid, and it’s guaranteed to confuse the browser. Some
browsers fall over and die when they encounter this sort of
construction. Safari is being forgiving, but Prototype.js (or jQuery,
or any other not MooTools JavaScript toolkit) isn’t so lucky. There’s
no good way to insulate one library from another, plus it’s just too
much JavaScript for anyone to have to download!

If you want to continue using this slideshow generator, what you need
to do is first use an FTP application to upload the entire collection
of generated files – HTML and images and scripts – into a sub-folder
on your server. Then, draw an instance of the iframe Action on your
page, large enough to contain the slideshow. In the Action interface
(while that drawn iframe is selected) you will see the controls to
turn off the border, etc, as well as the URL of the page you want to
show inside that area. If you made a folder named modern_wedding on
your server, and the generated slideshow page is called modern.html,
then you would enter modern_wedding/modern.html (manually) in the URL
field. Once you do that (and upload to your server) you will see that
everything just works. The reason that it does is that an iframe is
like a window cut through your Web page, through which you can look at
another site. It doesn’t matter at all what sort of scripting hijinks
you get up to inside that foreign page – it’s sandboxed away from the
rest of your site.

Walter

On Sep 13, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Lena wrote:

Well, I incorporated Scripty Accordion onto my website and its doing
its job for the most part. However, it has disabled my slideshows
(Which I created using Visualslideshow.com®). On one of the pages,
the menu shifted its position on the page. If Scripty Accordion is
not capable of working alongside VisualSlideshow®, I will just die.
(Ok, maybe that was just a little exaggerated). But really, I need
help with this.

My link is here: http://lenaosoriogemisic.com/index.html

Slideshows are found on the following pages:

WEDDINGS>Modern
WEDDINGS>Vintage
WEDDINGS>Romantic

Everywhere else (EVENT, GALLERY, ABOUT, CONTACT) the action script
works well.


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These are javascript slideshows. I would have preferred if Freeway’s Showcase offered a fade-in/fade-out option, but they dont.

I never used iframe before. Is that an action that I have to download?

(Sorry, I’m just not aquainted with allot of the actions out there)


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iframe is a “core” Action – it ships as part of Freeway. In your
Window menu, make sure the Actions palette is showing, then in your
toolbar, click down on the yellow cog icon, and pull down the menu
until iframe is selected (near the bottom of the list). Then use that
tool to draw a box where your slideshow should go. The rest of the
changes are made using the Actions palette while that box you drew is
selected on the page. If you click elsewhere, you can get the controls
back by clicking on that box again. You won’t see much besides an
empty box in your design view, but when you preview from your server,
you will see the slideshow inside the iframe.

On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Lena wrote:

These are javascript slideshows. I would have preferred if Freeway’s
Showcase offered a fade-in/fade-out option, but they dont.

If you had threaded in the JavaScript – without the surrounding HTML
that your slideshow tool generated – and if you had also not used any
of the Scripty Actions (since they fight with Moo) then yes, you could
have done this more or less the way you did. But the way that you did
it, there was an entire new HTML document (with doctype, html, head,
and body tags) stuffed inside the body tag of another page. Imagine if
the Starship Enterprise had beamed Kirk into the side of a mountain.
That’s about how the page felt.

Walter


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Yeah, but Kirk can be beamed anywhere he wanted—he had it like that—LOL!

Thanks again Walter. I will attempt to correct this tonight.

By the way, my slideshows are already in subfolders. So now I have to go further into creating more sub folders for my already existing subfolders?


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No, you just need to make sure that the index page (the part you
beamed into the middle of your page) is in that subfolder. When you
make your link to that page, make sure you type the whole path from
your page (outside of that subfolder) to the index page for the
slideshow (inside the folder).

Walter

PS: If Scotty beamed Kirk into the middle of a mountain, Kirk would be
turned to mush. Into a cave, now that’s another matter. But into solid
rock? Shudder…

On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Lena wrote:

Yeah, but Kirk can be beamed anywhere he wanted—he had it like that—
LOL!

Thanks again Walter. I will attempt to correct this tonight.

By the way, my slideshows are already in subfolders. So now I have
to go further into creating more sub folders for my already existing
subfolders?


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