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[Acorn]

Photo Filter Presets - Animation Example

A very simple application to the page background: Twinkle.xar

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[Egg Bramhill]

Yes. Shame about Edge not using this.

EDIT: But it does!

[Acorn]

Yes. Shame about Edge not using this.
EDIT: But it does!

So it does! I must have checked between code edits.

All we have to do now is Dear Xara Xara to get the Preview not to use IE - how hard can that be?
Answers on the back of an A0 postcard in 8pt Comic Sans.

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[Egg Bramhill]

how hard can that be?

I've no idea but they can't just stick to IE as the default preview browser. This requires serious attention.

[handrawn]

it depends how they built the core modules which I understand used the MS API.. and if so that may mean they are 'stuck' with it without a major re-write..

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi HD

... and if so that may mean they are 'stuck' with it without a major re-write..

No, we are stuck with it and it's another nail in the coffin!

[Acorn]

it depends how they built the core modules which I understand used the MS API.. and if so that may mean they are 'stuck' with it without a major re-write..

Well, Xara could divert the Preview to a full publish to the www folder of the built-in web server, where a background service is sitting for a change index.htm(l) file to appear so that the user's default browser is launched.

Or Xara could expand the Preview current web page and Preview whole site icons to offer back all available browsers. Why there might even be a UI setting where the default could be set by the user.

Or Xara could remove it and publish to a local folder and open the folder.

Or Xara could create Shortcuts to the web server, like “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://localhost:8000/virtda-de-dum-de-da/index.htm, for each browser and put these in a local folder and display that.

Or...

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[Egg Bramhill]

Hello again Acorn,

You posted

Photo Filter Presets - Animation Example

Is this supposed to animate, it doesn't in preview in Chrome or FF for me?

[Acorn]

Hello again Acorn,
You posted Is this supposed to animate, it doesn't in preview in Chrome or FF for me?

Egg thanks for getting back.
By animate, I meant it cycled though an animation of filters using CSS3 keyframes. Keyframes are also used for animating slideshows and sprite cartoons so perhaps my use of the word "animate" was too general but I felt fit the concept.
I checked that the filter cycle round for all browsers apart from IE.

I will be adding another Post at some time to cover slideshows, so tune in.

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[Acorn]

Test Inside - Faux Example

Text Inside is a mechanism to associate text with a shape.
Prior to this, if you wanted a nice background you had to create the shape and place and resize the text on top.
Each change to the background required an adjustment.

Xara has introduced, at Version 15.1, Text Inside where a new structure has been created that embeds any shape within a Text Area such that a change to the shape automatically constrains the text to within the shape.

For v15.0 and before, the old trick of using a wrapping shape with a hole on top and repelling text still works.
The downside is any shape change does require a bit more rework.

The end result is the same and how often do you tweak a design?

Text Inside - Nutshell.xar

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