I appreciate your reply, and just wanted to reiterate that I was not moving, adding (I kinda feel it’s too wizzy now…), changing anything with the page.
I thought perhaps the page from file loading may have changed as a result of having replaced the actions below as instructed, but really can’t see that happening.
Me thinks I’ve got a damaged file…
Thanks!
Frank
On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Please try again on a completely blank new Freeway document. Blank page. Build up a Carousel, and then add some content further down the page and set up anchors to those elements and apply SmoothScroll to the page. See what happens. I am convinced (by the fact that I can’t repeat your problem here) that the issue you are seeing is unrelated to these two Actions. They really do play well with one another.
Remember, you can have too much of a good thing. Try to stick to one or two wizzy effects per page if you can.
Walter
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Frank H wrote:
Walter,
Would doing so interfere with an FLV player? Not sure if related, but after completeing the below, I get an error that the action took so long to load it timed out.
Didn’t touch the page, only other action besides css is ScriptyFader - this is just on my file copy, quit without saving and opened again from file and got the same results -
This is the same page as here:
http://www.class-e-ads.com/
I did recently have some file problems unrelated to Freeway…
Thanks in advance,
Frank
On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
There is a SmoothScroll Action now, and it is guaranteed not to mess with Carousel controls at all. I have tested it here.
Be sure to download the latest SmoothScroll and the latest Carousel, remove both Action files from your Actions folder before adding the new ones, and test the combination in a new and otherwise empty document while all other documents are closed.
Updating bundle Actions is a bit more of a pain than it should be, but here’s the Cliff’s Notes:
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Quit Freeway.
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Locate your Actions folder. In a default installation, it will be here: /Users/[you]/Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions/General
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Locate the Actions you need to replace/update. SmoothScroll.fwactionb and Protaculous.fwactionb, and delete them. Move them to the trash and empty the trash.
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Drag the new versions into place within your Actions folder.
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On any document where you have used these Actions in the past, you can try using them again directly and see if you have any trouble. If you still do, then you have to do the next (last) step:
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Locate every instance of the Carousel, Carousel Pane, Carousel Tab, Carousel Button, etc. that you have used in the entire document. Remove the Actions from any elements they are attached to. Publish once. Now apply them again, which should include the new version in your document, rather than the older cached version that was still causing you grief.
The reason for all of this madness is because Freeway is helpful. Each time you use an Action, it caches the Action file within the document where you have used it. This works perfectly for simple Actions, since they are only plain text files after all. But the bundle Actions, like any of my Scripty Actions, are really many many files bundled together in a complex folder structure, rather than single simple files. As a result, the cacheing system caches the Action file, but none of the support files or the folder structure that tells the system to treat them as a single element. When you update, you can end up in a situation where the cached Action file from the document is being used in conjunction with newer support files from the bundle, and that becomes an unholy mess that will either not run at all, or will cause errors that the developer cannot reproduce.
Walter
On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:05 PM, stuart wrote:
smooth scrolling issue Walter do you still have that code in which created, I tried to create java code which can work to scroll smooth between anchors
Stu
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