Dynamo

Extruder in FreewayPro (3 Replies)

chuckamuck — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:53:55 -500

I’ve been seeing this used a lot lately for Twitter response fields. It is useful for the fact it pokes you in the eye and invites you to click on it no matter where you are on the page. I don’t think I would use it more than once on a page though. Kind of related to accordions in effect.

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

[Pro] Build in Zoomify (21 Replies)

Thomas Kimmich — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:04:20 -500

Quick link modification:

http://www.kimmich-dm.de/blogging/disqus-follow.php?DOC_INST=13

and an additional one for using Multiple Images.

Disqus comments welcome.

Thomas

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

[Pro] New to this - need some help (1 Reply)

waltd — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:39:17 -500

If you don’t have a database, then the simplest thing is to create a secure realm on your hosting provider’s server. This is done usually through the cPanel or whatever other admin area your host offers. The users cannot change their password, and you have to be an admin to get into the control panel to add a new user or change an existing one.

As far as entering the secure area goes, you apply the security to a single folder, and then all content within that folder will request a password before you can see it. So if you have http://example.com, and you add a secure realm to http://example.com/secure/ then the way you would direct visitors into that area is with a link to that URL or to one of the pages within that folder (or a descendent of it at any level).

When a visitor follows that URL, their browser will show a login/ password dialog or sheet. This dialog will be styled by the browser or operating system that visitor is using, and you have no control over how it looks or behaves.

There’s no way to have a login form, like this site does, without a database and a programming language on the server somewhere.

Walter

On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Steve Davis wrote:

Have been doing static sites and one linked to a FileMaker database using FileMakers IWP. Now for another site need to create a “members area” with a login that would be identical to that used for this area.

Do not need to have create new member, as the private area would be available to a limited number, approx. 100 users, and would pre-load their name and temp password.

Also, do not have a database or other facility for storing users, so all would need to be done on web hosts server.

Question: Is there a template or code available to do this vs. my trying to reinvent the wheel? And, also what needs to be done in FreeWay for a button on an existing window to begin to enter this members area?

Sure I’m leaving out quite a bit, so any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

[Pro] Query string fed contact form in Freeway

redpoint — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:17:49 -500

I have a page with a contact form (originally built in freeway) that a web developer has modified the code (with an added javascript file) to do a few things: - feed info via a query string into one of the text fields of the form. - substitute different text and images depending on which query string is used.

It may be easier if I show you:

—the Developer modified page (that works but has to edited by coding)

—And the Freeway built page (that needs fixing so that it works with the query links)

They can both be accessed by this page below: Once on the page, click on links on the left (below “Strings to Developer built page”) to see how the query string works. The links on the right point to the FW version and are currently not bringing up the dynamic info. http://www.measurlogic.com/Info/querylinkspage.html

In addition, here is a link to the Freeway and javascript files all zipped up:

http://www.redpoint-design.com/BetaContactQuery.zip

I have spent many hours trying to get this figured out but to no avail. Thanks in advance for your help on this. Maybe the solution will provide the seeds for a great action or extra FW versatility.

All the best, Steve

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

Pano2VR & Iframe (3 Replies)

pandion — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:15:34 -500

Hi Paul, I really look forward to the results of you thinking cap. And yes I’m pretty sure Dan produced the files with the beta, I’ll check.

Peter Tucker, Oxford UK - but mobile somewhere

On 11 Aug 2010, at 09:58, Paul <email@hidden> wrote:

Sorry, Peter, I just noticed - they have a version 3 beta which creates the files you mentioned.

Very exciting. Must put on thinking cap.

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

Pano2VR & Iframe

pandion — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:27:47 -500

I should have added this link:

http://dt360.co.uk/vr-test/

Hi. we want to place Pano2VR exported files into a FW page.

We’ve done this pretty easily in the past with a Flash file, but now with Apple mobile devices not doing Flash we need an alternative.

I have some sample files created from Pano2VR

A folder containing:

house.html   
Images [older]
skin.js
house.xml    
pano2vr_player.js

the HTML page references .js files but I don’t know how to place these directly on the FW page. Is there an Action or can someone point me in the right direction how to insert these .js files?

We can control to some extent the HTML container, but it might be better to place the source files directly on the page??

Best wishes Peter

================================ Peter Tucker, Oxford UK email@hidden

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

Word lookup

waltd — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:49:00 -500

I made a little test page over the weekend to try to work out for myself how the New York Times’ definition system works. If you haven’t seen that, it’s quite nice. Highlight a word, and a little widget appears to click for a definition of that word. I’m not sure if it’s used on every page, but I found it because I was reading an article and didn’t recognize the word, so I wanted to use the system Dictionary to look it up.

Here’s my try at this:

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/lookup.html

I’m also fooling around with Disqus in the same page, so try out the comments there and let me know how that works for you. Both of these features might become future Actions.

Walter

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

OT phpBB (2 Replies)

waltd — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:10:24 -500

phpBB expects a slight amount of PHP or server-side scripting experience before use, so your first step might be to go to Keith Martin’s tutorial site at http://thehelpful.com/php and read the whole thing (it’s not that long).

Second, when your developer is referring to “delete everything”, I am willing to bet that a good translation of that is “delete any index.html or index.php you find in the Web root directory (the folder on the server where the Apache Web server looks for its files to serve), along with any folders that have the same name as the folders you are about to copy over to the server.”

You are correct in guessing that you’d wand to retain the Webalizer stuff. You might also want to turn on the “show hidden files” feature of your FTP/SFTP application and look carefully both at what is on the server and what is in the folder your developer sent to you. Odds are great that there will be one or more “dot-files” in those directories. “Dot-files” are text files or directories that are named with a leading dot, and thus are normally invisible.

There are two special cases of dot-files — . and .., which will be found at the top of any directory listing. You can ignore these, but you should never attempt to copy, move, or delete them.

The one dot-file you should look for and worry about is called .htaccess. This is an Apache instruction file that configures special Web server settings for the directory it is found in, as well as for any sub-directory of that directory. If your server already has an .htaccess file in it, and you copy over the phpBB .htaccess file, you can expect some measure of awkwardness to occur.

The way to manage this safely is to open both files in a programmer’s text editor, and make sure to add the phpBB directives to the existing .htaccess file. This may also cause some excitement in your server, but at least you won’t be removing the known-working file in the process of installing phpBB.

phpBB is a very mature piece of software, and it’s fairly well written. It is also about as far away (philosophically) from Freeway as you can get and still be hosting Web pages. Your interaction with it will be limited to installing it, getting it to run on your server, and then finding a template that looks “close enough” and further tweaking that template with a CSS editor or text editor.

I wish you much patience, and good luck.

Walter

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

[Pro] Image Gallery/Help (1 Reply)

Thomas Kimmich — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:40:08 -500

Hi Claudia,

I now read your post several times and it made me wonder of no answers here. It could be that your request is more a “basic design and how to solve question” what indeed is a bit harder to solve one.

Question back:

Why do you dislike “lightbox”? It`s the easiest and most common way to build nice showcases and covers all you want to have: Pervious, Next, Cancel on an easy way to handle for visitors.

Keyword showcase:

FWP 5.5 is coming with a really nice and easy stand-alone feature where things like that are really to solve within minutes. How it could look like? I set a very small sample here:

http://www.kimmich-dm.de/extras/showcase/showcase.html

Have a look and tell me what do you think.

Thomas

BTW: You can send me a PM too, it might be easier to find a way that comes up to your expactation.

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

Scriptaculous onclick ( on select ?) event from menu dropdown (48 Replies)

David Owen — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:20:12 -500

Is that singular or plural? (discounts can be coded:) )

Afraid that’s something you’ll have to ask the client.

David

On 3 Aug 2010, at 20:02, “DeltaDave” <email@hidden> wrote:

I could do with a pair of these - any chance of a discount?

David

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

dynamo mailing list email@hidden Update your subscriptions at: http://freewaytalk.net/person/options