Some other things people may not have noticed… so hence I would advice people to hold back judging Freeway 5 until you try it all is…
As mentioned in another post about drop shadows: if you create a vignette background 1 px wide and say 600 deep then place this in the background of the page. Then create an HTML box and apply a drop shadowed box as mentioned in other posts you get a drop shadow on the div that is correct over the back ground now go back to the palette and type a different corner radius for every corner and it just works!!.. bloody clever use of png’s and slicing as this used to take ages to work out in photoshop and then you would be stuck with what you had unless you went back into photoshop and redo the lot again.
The other one to look out for is: if you draw two html box’s next to each other one bigger than the other then move the smaller over the bigger and press the space bar before letting go of the mouse the smaller layer becomes a child of the bigger.
Plus if you then click in the smaller one in the centre press the space bar and move the smaller box out a little so it just starts to break out side the larger box (but is still indicated as a child via the big blue border around the bigger box parent) and then let go of the space bar and the mouse. The result is you know have a child that is not restricted by it’s parent boundaries… in fact you can now just click on it like normal and move it to where ever you want and it will still be a child.
If you then move the parent box the child box moves in relation ship to the parent
this is really handy when you have something that is stuck to the bottom of the page and you want other layers to be in the same position to this regardles how long the page may be
Now try this even better trick
move the smaller box back into the larger box and it should flick box into and place and move it some where in the centre of the bigger box, then while this is selected go to the inspector palette and turn off layer for this inner box.
You should see it indicated as a blue border instead of green.
Now go to the bigger box and remove the height attributes and bang now the parent box height’s minimum is restricted to child
if you then colour the parent and child in different colours and place a load of text in the child you will see that both boxes grow in height depending on text content.
Now this is bloody fantastic if you have dynamic content and you don’t know how much text will be placed there.
I imagine I am only scratching the surface of what’s possible in freeway 5 and I can’t wait to try all this new stuff out properley and in my opinion a real step forward over 4…
well done Softpress
max
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