Eaisest way?

I would like to open to a page, fade in, "Welcome to web site name" then fade out and fade in to a graphic and then fade out to home page.

What would be the easiest way to do so using layers, popups or?

Tks - jb

PS - X3D-6 had a lot of "goodies" - spinning, fading, etc. - in it that do not appear to be under the 3D tool in D-7 Pro. After I installed D-7 Pro, I deleted - bad mistake - all my other Xara programs, all the way back to Xara-3, thinking everything was in D-7 Pro, so no longer have those "goodies". They were so easy to use in X3D-6 - can the same things be done in D-7? - jb

here is one way perhaps

place a placeholder on the landing page put this code in it ( in the body) <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=page name.htm"> where 1 is the time delay so perhaps .O1 for instant redirect to the second page

have the second page "Welcome to web site name" come in via the page transition feature 'fade in' e.g for 1 second have the same code on this page but alonger time to read the welcome bit say 4 seconds <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4;url=new page name with graphic .htm"> then with another redirect from this graphic page e.g 2 seconds <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=index.htm"> back to the home/index page. with or wothout the page fading in. There is probably a better way than this I suspect

scruffy

Tks, Scruffy - I had a family site from years back that I had built in FrontPage. Had scrolling text, some flash animation, a slide show - a really nice site. I had not looked at it in some time and got a notice that the domain name was up for renewal. Went to the site and it was gone. I have been unable to contact the host - someone told me they had gone out of business.

I am now trying to re-create the site using D-7 Pro.

Most of the graphics I had done in one of the older Xara programs and the flash was done using X3D - quick, simple and easy to do. It would seem that these same tools should be in W-7 but they are not under the "3D" tool and I am not sure where to look for them.

I still have FrontPage on the old computer but not on this one and I can't find the disc for it. The X3D animation will work on that computer but if I import the same file into D-7, the quality is very poor and the animation does not work. - jb

I have been working with the animation tools - took some simple text and made it go from faded to dark and grow in size.

Then made up the text the way I want it using 3D but when I select it and go to animation all the choices are grayed out.

And it talks about doing other things such as rotation but I can find on way to do so.

Where or where are the X3D tools? :( - jb


This is not going well - I thought that I would see if making a bitmap copy would solve the problem but when I select the 3D I created and click on create bitmap, the screen that comes up has nothing in it! :( Am I going to have to go back to Xtreme 5 to do this? - jb

Xtreme and Designer have never included all the features found in Xara 3D 6 or 7 Jeb.
The '3D' icon loads only the 'extrude' tool.
Just reinstall you Xara 3D from the CD and you'll be good to go ;)

PS: If you can't find your CD, just log into your account at Xara, there should be a download link and your registration key there.

Ah - tks, SS.

I guess when I saw the 3D tool I assumed it would do all that X3D would do - wrong! Never should have deleted it! :(

Will give it a try - jb

SS, logged in and found I have had 14 Xara products over the years. Have the reg. number for X3D-6 but can not find a place to download it - just X3D-7, the new one.

Will drop a note to support and see if they can help. - jb

You can download the X3D6 setup from here: http://site.xara.com/downloads/xara3d/

Another way - just seen it, would be to use john's loading screen tweak form the tweakset (download at the top of the page) to start the process off then use the redirect scripts.

scruffy

Scruffy, where do I find the tweakset? - jb

put "tweakset" in the search-field on top of this page...

I figured out how to do part of what I want with animation - almost. I want "1 2 3" to come in "1" and stay on the screen, "2" to then come in and both "1 2" stay on the screen and then "3" to come on the screen so all - "1 2 3" come on the screen. But it does not stay on the screen.

I have tried to change the loop - unchecked it - time delay, etc., but I can not get the last frame to stay on the screen.

Any suggestions? - jb

look at the top of the forum;)

I must be dense here - first, I have not a clue what a "tweakset" is or how to use it. I downloaded the file and unzipped it and then open the ones I could but don't see anything there that I can use. What is suppose to be there and how will it help solve my problem? :) - jb

OK - Here is what I have so far -

Please don't ask me how I got it to stay on the screen - when I made the frames with the extruded text, it would loop but when I added just the plain text it stays on the screen - not a clue as to why.

First problem - when you load the xara file, it has two words of the extruded text on the the rectangle - should not be there but I can find no way to get rid of it.

Second - the quality of the extruded text is very poor.

Third - I now want to add one more line of text (frame) but can find no way to get the file back into "animation". Seems I must start all over again. :(

Suggestions?

and Forth - I now want this to automatically go to the home page after about 3-5 secs on the last frame - how do I do it?

- jb

After uploading this file, the animation does not work when previewed - it works just fine in my D-7 program. ? - jb

This is a very confusing thread, I read you words but I just cannot follow what you are saying or what exactly you are trying to achieve or in which program you trying with.
Do you have any example you can show us, something which already exists on the web that you're trying to copy perhaps? Or even a file of yours showing what you have so far.

Yes, it is - sorry about that. I started with wanting to know how to do two different things - - a rotating banner on a photo or graphic and also how to have text fade in on a page one word at a time while keeping the words that came before it on the page and to then go to the home page after the last frame.

At this point, I am trying to get the text part to work.

And after a lot of time trying different things, it works - sort of - in D-7. See the attached file above. It works when previewed from my D-7 program - it does not work when clicked on from this forum.

I was having a problem trying to figure out how to make the last frame stay on the screen - working with just extruded text, it continued to loop. But when I add the frames with plain text, the last frame does not loop. Don't know why, all the settings are the same.



The attached file above works just fine in my D-7 Pro but does not work when clicked here - don't know why.

Going to quit for now - maybe if I let it sit it will fix itself! :)

Tks for trying to help. - jb

Your attached .xar file is not much help without the brown potters opening.swf Jeb.

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The attached file above works just fine in my D-7 Pro but does not work when clicked here - don't know why.

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What do you mean about not working when clicked here (on the forum)?

In any case, I think what you are trying to do is only fully achievable using Adobe Flash or Swish Max.

Hi Jeb,

Apologies for breaking in, the tweakset is at the top of the TG first page.

Best to give direct links when possible.

WD7 Tweakset here

Downloaded and unzipped the tweakset - now must learn how to use them.

Shape, what I ment about the link I have attached here not working is this is a link to my Xara file - when I open that file in D-7 and go to preview, the amination works - - when I click on it here and it opens in D-7 and I go to preview the animation does not work. - jb

Yes - that is because the *.swf file is not available when opened via the download link to the file on the forum.
Your *.swf file will be cached in the support folder in the same location as your original website - my draft- 1.xar file.