Dave
One question before I go thru all this
. I need the images to scroll, not stop and go like the example you sent me. I have a lot of images per page that need to scroll, not stop and go…
Is this possible?
By the way thanks for all your help! all the way from NYC
Remember that if you had shown us what you were trying to achieve in the first place we could have got you there much quicker - a picture is worth a thousand words.
Once you have created one you can copy and paste the whole assembly on to a new page and just change the images - this will ensure they are the same on every page.
The BIG thing to be thoughtful about here - is that, the more images
you add to a page, the slower it will load and slow loading pages are
ruinous to your site’s health. These days, any page over 100k is
considered monstrous and should be trimmed. It used to be 75k but
with increased bandwidth available, that threshold has jumped
slightly. This is why Flash is such a huge part of the internet world…
Given that you’re doing this in FW, with the other content of your
page, it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to put more than a few images
in your Carousel without every page on the site starting to seriously
lag.
Personally, I would like to see the action taken a whole leap forward
by using an include function where we set one layer with the action,
tell the action what images to display, FW uploads them into a folder
on the server and the action comes with a flash-esque pre-loader for
images.
With everything I have done with iFrame and the fixed in window arrows I am very happy without using the Carousel. All I really need is a way to stop the dam thing from running.
Is Dave and Walter here too?
Is it at All possible to create a stop button? My images are lo res my pages are loading fast as it is so there should be no loading time issue.
Use your hyperlink menus to link to the pages that contain the 5 Carousels - you said these were on different pages anyway.
From what you say it sounds like you created the pages and then displayed them in an iFrame. Why not jusy link directly to each different page,
Why stack the carousels - why not have a page for each.
If you have created a Master for them then you can duplicate it easily - or create one page with carousel and use Page>Make Master to generate a Master page that will then have all the elements necessary for all the other pages.
As for importing images Apple+E does the import (from where you have the images in the Finder) then Shift+Apple F fits the graphic to the box.
Freeway helps with the repetitive tasks if you let it
I don’t know about a stop button - all I am offering is an elegant alternative that is easily controlled and easily repeatable for multiple usage on many pages.
And once you have created one you have the basis, with very little extra work, to reuse it over and over.