Yet another first attempt

[johnwilletts]

Into the Dragon's Den we go.

Help please on my Beta.

http://www.j-a-willetts-esq.com


Particularly:

How to get rid of the squiggly lines on the opening pan?

In the Menu page, why are only the very centre of the spots receptive to mouse clicks?

How can I prevent the circle icon from appearing until the panorama has finished loading?

And anything else you spot.

Thanks,
John

[HansNyberg]

You can easy get rid of it by converting it to a cubic pano but frankly I would get rid of that introduction completelly.

As you do it now you are loading 2 fullsize panoramas at once, the fact that the blackpano has almost no download size does not mean that it takes up memory and processor. A black cube has exactly the same size in mb as one with an image when they load and that is affecting the real pano with bad performance and especially bad sound.

Perhaps it is not your intention but the link opens a new page with the pano.

If you want an introduction do it just as a normal webpage.

Hans

[johnwilletts]

Thanks for the advice. I'll do it. The only reason for the intro page is to provide an email link - which I haven't been able to find out how to do from within FPP.

Hans, within the group there are a number of technical experts like yourself.
How/where did you guys pick up your knowledge?

It's certainly not in the Tutorials or the examples. Should I take time out to learn Actionscript?

Regards,

John

[HansNyberg]

I am absolutely not a tech expert.
I am just good at cut and paste.

The best thing to do is to study the XML of different sites.

In most cases you can combine or modify the codes to your own design.

The basic codes are the same for all but what can be difficult is to find out how special commands for actions are built.

I believe this is what Patrick is working on with his tutorials at http://www.flashpanos.com/

Hans

[Virtualguide]

Hi John,

I thought also that it is not in examples and tutorials but it is not true. Personally, I am not coder also, I started with Easypano Tourweaver but had a lot of problems, then I started to use Immervision PurePlayer fo Java Pro- there I started to learn the basics - how to code. After some time I found this nice piece of sw made by Denis and work of some guys here.
It was hard for me to understand it, so I took pen and paper and started to study FPP "manual" - by writing the code from Denis tutorial and examples and then from other users to paper. My brain somehow gradually accepted the informations :p and I easily understood the principles. As I am not coder I do not remember all the tags and coding rules but now know about them and where to find them - know that there are such and such opportunities and if I want to get some result I know where to look for...

So I think - there is no need (at this time) to study action script for U - try to carefully read the Denis tutorial and examples to understand the software, then study how the others utilize FPP for getting some nice results, study their xml code, study the forums...
Your time is valuable - let the others - who already know actionscript to code some plugins for us - 10 to 25 $ is not so much (this gyus know that ;) ) - Your time would cost much more if You would code it Yourself

"The only reason for the intro page is to provide an email link - which I haven't been able to find out how to do from within FPP."

This works:
<spot id="hotspot" pan="20" tilt="7" url="folder/name_of_picture.png" depth="2" onClick="openURL(mailto:james.bond@007.co.uk)"/>

By clicking on the hospot mail client will open with 007 address: cool:




Regards, Igor