Scrolling Text Help

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

Carla


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Its not that difficult - or time consuming.

Essentially once you have created one container you use Item>Duplicate with the number of containers that you wish to display the illustrations in.

Then it is just a matter of importing the graphics into each container.

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I just read the Carousel page and it said

Know limitation one Carousel per page.

I have a menu that hyperlinks to five scrolls

will this be a problem?


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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. :slight_smile:


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If you read on you will find that the action has been improved to allow multiple carousels per page now.


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Okay

wish me luck!!! Ha! I will keep you informed David

Carla


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Are your 5 scrolls on the same page?

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No

I have separate pages for each scroll of images all perfectly measured…
Is there a problem?

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Read on further – I have removed that limitation from the Action.

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/carousel/carousel.html

Walter

On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Carla wrote:

I just read the Carousel page and it said

Know limitation one Carousel per page.

I have a menu that hyperlinks to five scrolls

will this be a problem?


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Nope

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.

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Walter! David

Thank you !!!

If I follow your link will it take me to the place I can download C action?

Carla

On 9 Feb. 2008, 1:17 am, waltd wrote:

Read on further – I have removed that limitation from the Action.

Carousel in Freeway

Walter

On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Carla wrote:

I just read the Carousel page and it said

Know limitation one Carousel per page.

I have a menu that hyperlinks to five scrolls

will this be a problem?


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Okay one more thing

I spent yesterday hyperlinking the menu on the left to the Iframe as target

If I get rid of the iFrame… what happens to that action

and will I be able to stack each carousel on top of each other like slave images.

And will I be able to import my already made pages of images?

I know thats a lot of questions but I am so new.

sorry

Thx

Carla


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Carla:

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.

JPW


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Hi Jim

Thanks for the info… now I am even more confused.

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.

Thx guys

Carla


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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


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I am making a test page now to try it out.

Where can I download the Carousel action, am I missing something? I read instructions

Now dave would I be importing the page with all the images layed out or each image separetly again?

C


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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.

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I know

just tired

Thanks Dave


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Hi Guys

I have read the tutorial and can not find the Carousel action
anywhere.
am I missing something?


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Import separate images from where your originals are in the Finder or if you have web optimised ones use them.

The link for the action

http://www.freewaypro.com/actions/downloads/protaculous.fwactionb.zip

David


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