Xara Xone Guest Tutorial 96 - A Flash Gallery/Slide Show - January 15 - FREE!

[hardot]

Since my last post, I have re-created the animation again. This time the control frames seem to be doing their job, except for the mouse over buttons on the Go To control frames. They do not stop the animation at each frame so that the information window can be read. As per the tutorial, on each of those 'Next' buttons, I have gone to Utilities->Web Properties->Mouse-Over and set the 'Jump To Frame' to the subsequent regular image frame.

Ant thoughts on what I need to do to stop each image frame on the mouse over of the 'Next' button?

[gwpriester]

I had pretty much the same problem. Anas said it is easy for the page to get corrupted and suggested starting over from scratch. It took me a few times to get my animation to work correctly.

[JimToal]

I'm having the same problem. I've started from scratch a few times Gary, but I will persevere with this as the concept has a lot of potential.


Jim

[hardot]

Gary,
Do you know what you might have done differently for your animation to finally work? I have tried several different combinations but still no luck. I've noticed that as the animation is processing, the information windows on the GoTo frames do display because you can see the 'Next' button flashing by, but haven't figured out how to stop that process to allow a visitor to read the info.

I agree with Jim that this capability has a lot of potential; I can think of a bunch of my existing sites on which a flash slide show like this would be a great addition. It would be helpful if Anas could share his .xar file.

Harry

[hardot]

Gary, Jim,

Anas sent me his .xar file and I immediately saw what the problem was - and fixed it. The GoTo control frames have to point to themselves, not to the next frame in the series. So, if the control frame after your first regular image frame (say, image1) is 'Next Image1', the frame name has to be 'Next Image1;goto next Image1'. Also, the text for the information window has to be added in the control frame, not the regular frame. Finally, the information window does not have to be a named object.

Harry

[James Allen]

Congratulations, Harry. I'm sure Gary will want to update his tutorial when he reads this.