I feel like I’m always asking arcane questions like this, but I have a client who has requested a basic timed image gallery (no thumbnails, just a plain fading slideshow), that starts up on mouseover and stops on mouseoff. Is this feasible either with Showcase, Weaver’s Mootools actions or any other way in Freeway? Thanks!
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This should be possible. Build your timed slideshow in an HTML box,
and then apply Target Show/Hide Layer to that box and set it to
Initially Hidden. Use Rollover on a separate element to trigger the
slideshow to appear and disappear. Just be careful when creating your
layout that you don’t have the slideshow appear over the top of the
element you are using as your trigger, otherwise the mouseout event
will never fire – your page will stick in the slideshow-showing mode
and only a reload will restore it.
Walter
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:19 AM, derekzinger wrote:
I feel like I’m always asking arcane questions like this, but I have
a client who has requested a basic timed image gallery (no
thumbnails, just a plain fading slideshow), that starts up on
mouseover and stops on mouseoff. Is this feasible either with
Showcase, Weaver’s Mootools actions or any other way in Freeway?
Thanks!
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Thanks, Walt. I appreciate the help. The advice on using the trigger is very useful. For some reason, I wasn’t thinking it would work, but indeed it does.
I’ve stumbled upon the Sequence Timer action, which looks like it may be preferable, as it allows images to cross fade between each other, rather than having the “flash” effect where the images fade to white before bringing up the next image. There’s some tinkering to get it to work just right, but I’m nearly there.
For future readers, a relevant thread for a fading slideshow based on the Sequence Timer action is here:
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/82395#m_82397
The trigger action is “Play/Pause Sequence Timer”, rather than “Show/Hide Target Layer”.
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The Sequence Timer is very easy to set up, and looks beautiful, but there’s one little thing I’m wondering if it’s possible to modify.
The “Play/Pause Sequence Timer” action works in such a way that the slideshow begins on mouseover, but then in order to pause it, you need to mouse out and then mouse over again. Is there a way to make the slideshow only run on mouseover, and pause on mouseout? Any code I can perhaps modify?
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