I installed the Scripty Accordion action and it works great. I went ahead and copy & pasted a bunch of headers/body text so that I got a list of headers that expanded on mouse click, just like the Scripty demo at:
Okay, here’s my question: The script demo has four headers. Per the directions it seems easy enough to copy & paste the header/body text over and over to get more than that but I find that once I’ve created, say, twenty headers/body texts I can no longer actually edit the layer anymore. I can’t click on the text, I can’t even move the layer–it seems locked to the document boundaries.
I guess what I’m asking is if this is even possible the the Scripty Accordion action? Am I pushing it past its limits or am I just screwing it up big time in how I’m applying it? Basically what I’m trying to do is create a menu of twenty items. Or am I approaching this all wrong and should place the Accordion headers/body texts in a separate HTML and place that in an iFrame in my webpage?
I hope this make sense. Lol. Thanks for any and all help.
I should really let Walter answer a question about one of his babies but…
ScriptyAccordion was never really designed for a menu like that and while it may well be effective in certain circumstances there are probably better ways to achieve what you want.
Can you post a link to what you have online already?
Make your page tall enough in Freeway to include the entire set of content – no practical limit to how tall that is, as far as I know – and then once you have all your content in that one very tall HTML box, click once on it so its handles are showing and click on the up-down-arrow icon left of the Height field. The field will become grayed-out and unelectable, and when Freeway publishes the HTML for this box, it will no longer have any height at all, which means it will shrink to the size of the visible content within it. As you click on various headers, the box will swell to fit the height of whatever is visible, and as you hide things, it will shrink again.
Walter
On May 30, 2012, at 5:10 PM, evatar wrote:
I installed the Scripty Accordion action and it works great. I went ahead and copy & pasted a bunch of headers/body text so that I got a list of headers that expanded on mouse click, just like the Scripty demo at:
Okay, here’s my question: The script demo has four headers. Per the directions it seems easy enough to copy & paste the header/body text over and over to get more than that but I find that once I’ve created, say, twenty headers/body texts I can no longer actually edit the layer anymore. I can’t click on the text, I can’t even move the layer–it seems locked to the document boundaries.
I guess what I’m asking is if this is even possible the the Scripty Accordion action? Am I pushing it past its limits or am I just screwing it up big time in how I’m applying it? Basically what I’m trying to do is create a menu of twenty items. Or am I approaching this all wrong and should place the Accordion headers/body texts in a separate HTML and place that in an iFrame in my webpage?
I hope this make sense. Lol. Thanks for any and all help.
The first one is a zoomed out screen cap showing the Accordion layer with eight different headers, creating a loooong layer that has ‘no height’ selected.
The second screen cap shows the closest I can get and still read/edit the text. Notice how it chops off the bottom–I can’t seem to access or see the text below in Freeway. Also, trying to reframe with the zoom tool defaults to this configuration. Maybe this issue is just a limitation of Freeway Pro 5.5?
The third screen cap just shows how the menu appears in preview before mouse clicking on anything. Ideally, I’d like to double those eight menu items to 16, or even better, 20. Because once Scripty Accordion is setup it does exactly what I’m looking for.
Again, thanks for the help!
On 30 May 2012, 9:17 pm, waltd wrote:
Make your page tall enough in Freeway to include the entire set of content – no practical limit to how tall that is, as far as I know – and then once you have all your content in that one very tall HTML box, click once on it so its handles are showing and click on the up-down-arrow icon left of the Height field. >
Walter
I don’t really have anything posted currently. My original website is built differently, with lots of show/hide layers that I’m trying to avoid in this new iteration.
I posted some screenshots if you want to see what I’m doing:
On 30 May 2012, 9:15 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
ScriptyAccordion was never really designed for a menu like that and while it may well be effective in certain circumstances there are probably better ways to achieve what you want.
Can you post a link to what you have online already?
If you set the page height in Freeway taller, you won’t have this cutoff. I have seen it, absolutely, and it’s trivial to get rid of. Set your page height to 13000 px or something silly like that. You don’t have to worry about a big whack of empty scrollable space in your browser, because Freeway will only make the height of the resulting page whatever height the content is. You’re just giving yourself more elbow room to edit in.
Walter
On May 30, 2012, at 5:48 PM, evatar wrote:
Hi Walter, thanks for responding! LOVE your actions, man!
I’m pretty sure I did that but I’m still getting “locked out.” I posted some screen shots that might help explain my problem here:
I know this is an old post, but it provided a help towards the same problem I had. I have posted another question on the actions forum, but no-one has answered me, so I’ll paste it on here in the hope that someone can provide me with an answer.
Is it possible to have the accordion close again by repressing the same header tag? As far as I can see, the only way to close a tag is to open another one. The reason this is important to me is I have lots of info inside each panel and it pushes the next tag off the screen, forcing users to scroll down to get the next one.
I answered your question on the ActionsForge comment, also. “No” is the answer. You can either allow more than one tab to remain open, or you can allow only one tab to remain open (closing all other tabs when you click on a header), but you cannot close a tab by clicking on it a second time.
Walter
On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Alex Rollo wrote:
I know this is an old post, but it provided a help towards the same problem I had. I have posted another question on the actions forum, but no-one has answered me, so I’ll paste it on here in the hope that someone can provide me with an answer.
Is it possible to have the accordion close again by repressing the same header tag? As far as I can see, the only way to close a tag is to open another one. The reason this is important to me is I have lots of info inside each panel and it pushes the next tag off the screen, forcing users to scroll down to get the next one.
Thanks Walter (twice), I managed to solve my problem partially by simply using a CSS menu but this requires the opening of another page. The reason I liked the accordion action was because I wanted to have a piece of music playing seamlessly in the background while the various panels were viewed, using separate pages means that the music restarts from the beginning whenever another page is opened.
Anyway, thanks for replying, I don’t know much about coding & scripting so I’ll just have to think of another design.