I’d like to make one set of buttons to govern the functions of two carousels simultaneously.
A single button cannot be assigned to more than one “carousel button” action - so as a work around - I added a clear graphic box on top or each with a second “carousel button” action for the other carousel - in the thought that one click in that area would trigger two carousel button actions at once.
Guess the only way to get half way to this end effect is to build the “title” of the pane, right into each individual pane - as opposed to a carousel marquis in between the buttons. :-/
If you genuinely want both of them to move at the same time, never apart, simply make the panes as groups of the two panes you want to run at the same time. It won’t look any different that way, and you’ll be able to make as many controls as you need, and they’ll just work because it’s only one carousel.
Walter
On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Karen E wrote:
Thanks - bummer. ha ha
Guess the only way to get half way to this end effect is to build the “title” of the pane, right into each individual pane - as opposed to a carousel marquis in between the buttons. :-/
make the panes as groups of the two panes you want to run at the same time
Thanks - that’s all good - until I bring the buttons back into play. Can’t assign one button to two different carousels if the carousels are two individual ones, even grouped together.
Group1 = [img1+buttn1]
Group2 = [img2+buttn2]
I’ve had some bizarre results trying to figure out which elements to apply the Carousel and Pane to. I think I’ve tried every combination but nothing worked right.
If Group1 is assigned Carousel
And Group 2 is assigned Pane - didn’t work.
If [img1+buttn1] are both assigned Carousel individually
And [img2+buttn2] are both assigned Pane - didn’t work.
Carousel to all in - Group1 = [img1+buttn1]
Pane to all in Group2 = [img2+buttn2] - nope.
My scheme is simpler than that. Make one carousel with what appears to be two different sets of panes.
[pane1a][pane2a][pane3a]
[pane1b][pane2b][pane3b]
In reality, pane 1a and 1b are grouped together, so they act like one solid pane 1, likewise 2a and 2b, etc. There’s only one Carousel made up of visually separate elements. As long as they both have to move the same direction and the same distance, this trick will work.
Walter
On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Karen E wrote:
Thanks - that’s all good - until I bring the buttons back into play. Can’t assign one button to two different carousels if the carousels are two individual ones, even grouped together.
It was a bit mind numbing, and things got really wonky before sorting it out. On top of everything through all the brute force I was using to try different variations/experiments, lots of stuff got skewed - box sizes etc. and needed cleaning up.
Also the buttons completely broke. Even though they had the action applied - they didn’t work. I had to delete, then reinstall the action on them to get them back working. Odd.
In short summary, I have set up the first Image and Rollover together as a group with the Carousel action applied to the group only. (no actions inside)
Each additional Image and Rollover are grouped together - with the Carousel Pane action applied to their Group.
This is more or less just rewording how you said to set it up I believe. It works in every browser I’ve tried so far. (not sure about IE, but ) Thanks again!
Hi Karen - it strikes me that you went to a lot of effort needlessly - this was not what I was expecting to see.
If in your original plan the 2 carousels you wanted were one for the nav buttons and 1 for the images then this could have been achieved much more easily.
A carousel does not have to just contain images - it can contain HTML content as well within a single pane. If you look at this page http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/carousel.html you will see that a Carousel can contain different content.
Thanks Dave, I’m well aware of the different types of content - this version of it ended up being a compromise away from the original attempt of 2 carousels running in tandem from one set of buttons. It worked on “auto play” but as I learned, the single button set would only control one of the two movements and it became a mess.
Originally, the little “marquis” rollover in between the two buttons in the design was also a carousel on it’s own - I thought it had a neat look to it being such a small container and gliding up pane to pane… Oh well.
At least I got a decent education on Carousels playing with all of this! I’m still looking at ways to further the concept and adjust, so it’s far from done. The idea of a live slideshow or video playing inside one of the Pane containers as mentioned in another post is also interesting. This was just a test.
I’m still looking at ways to further the concept and adjust, so it’s far from done. The idea of a live slideshow or video playing inside one of the Pane containers as mentioned in another post is also interesting. This was just a test.