Dynamically moving a page.

[Ross Macintosh]

John - your comments suggested to me that perhaps when visiting Nick's example page you missed seeing the effect he was asking about. Please see my attached screen shot that clarifies where the effect can be initiated.

Regards, Ross

[covoxer]

There are endless possible visual effects that can be created with JS. You can find a lot of them implemented among the billions of the existing web pages. It is possible to create almost any effect with the WD, but you have to learn JS and write it. Or ask JS programmer to do it. Or find available code to use. This is true for any web authoring tool, not only WD. You can't expect any program to be boundled with all possible effects.
We provide quite powerful mechnism of creating custom effects without programming (by means of popups and rollovers), and we may create some additional effects, which are considered as wery usefull, in form of snippets (tweaks). But you should not expect us develop anything you'll ever ask for. This is simply impossible.

I hope you understand.

[covoxer]

John - your comments suggested to me that perhaps when visiting Nick's example page you missed seeing the effect he was asking about.

Thank you. No, I didn't miss it.

[Markku]

But you should not expect us develop anything you'll ever ask for. This is simply impossible.

I wonder if we could have a poll of tweak requests that are not yet scripted by John, and then John could maybe implement the highest ranked. Maybe 1-2 tweaks per month would keep us happy.
Yes, no?

[Ross Macintosh]

But you should not expect us develop anything you'll ever ask for. This is simply impossible. I hope you understand.

I think most of us really do understand. We also appreciate the 'tweaks' you have made for us.

Ultimately it would be great if javascript savy members of the Xara-WD community started offering their own tweaks. Certainly there has been some of that already and it is appreciated. I wonder if Xara might consider supporting those efforts by developing enhanced ways of managing tweaks. I'm thinking it would be ideal if it was even easier to add the tweaks to the program. A first step could be to make Xara's own tweaks available for more automatic install in a manner like how the 'get fills...' feature of the Fills Gallery goes out over the internet and installs the additional content. The next step might then be some form of 'tweaks manager' (like the Dreamweaver Extensions Manager) that would make it simpler to install tweaks from other sources.

Regards, Ross

[Boy]

Well, you can make answers on popups if you want them to be temporarily visible. Don't you?

Yes, but if you want to leave open/visible some of the answers (to reread or compare some of them a little later) popups are not very handy (even the sticky ones).

Anyway, I also read your later post that you cannot keep on developing customized scripts. I appreciate that and I certainly don't want to abuse your willingness to help us out.

I can take "no' for an answer: if you (and others at Xara) believe that users' request/suggestions are not useful in expanding XWD's functionality for more than just a few users, just tell us. But that would mean that it's still OK to ask, wouldn't it?

Thanks again for all your help, it's very much appreciated!

[cursor]

Personally, I'm going to start learning and working with javascript. If a number of serious users do this, a fabulous pool of routines can be created. As Ross suggests, it would be a fabulous thing if Web Designer offered a convenient Tweaks Manager.

[nickydude]

There are endless possible visual effects that can be created with JS. You can find a lot of them implemented among the billions of the existing web pages. It is possible to create almost any effect with the WD, but you have to learn JS and write it. Or ask JS programmer to do it. Or find available code to use. This is true for any web authoring tool, not only WD. You can't expect any program to be boundled with all possible effects.
We provide quite powerful mechnism of creating custom effects without programming (by means of popups and rollovers), and we may create some additional effects, which are considered as wery usefull, in form of snippets (tweaks). But you should not expect us develop anything you'll ever ask for. This is simply impossible.

I hope you understand.

I'm not sure but I think you thought I was asking for that panel slide effect to be created within WD. I'm not, I have all the javascript and css to create that effect and wondered if that effect could be added just like I added it to the example site.

I don't want you to add everything, just is it possible using ready made scripts as I'm under the impression that WD pages are static (absolute positioning) pages and the rest of the page won't slide down when the javascript is applied.

I hope this clears things a bit, I don't want it added to WD, just can it be done using existing scripts?

[covoxer]

I have all the javascript and css to create that effect and wondered if that effect could be added just like I added it to the example site.

To answer this I need to look at the script. There may be problems with absolute positioning as you say.
Also, everything can be worked around. It just may be not so easy.

[aridzone]

Here is a great source of free javascript
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/