Is there a way to add an additional button to the default skin button bar? I would like to add a button that returns the viewer to the initial scene in the project. If this can be done, is there a generic .png button file in one of the templates that is supplied by Klaus or would I have to create something. If so, where should that button file reside!

Thanks in advance, Reggie

In skin/vtourskin.xml I see a series of button layers that start with "skin_control_bar" Separately, when I look at the buttons.png container in the XML library, there is an "autorotate" button on that strip that does not appear skin/vtourskin.xml for my project. Could I use that "crop?" as my button? If so, what would the "onclick" command be to reset back to the initial thumbnail? Thank you for taking your time to reply.

Reggie

Yes, I meant that I want a button to return the viewer to the initial scene in the project. Am I able to crop in that unused "autorotate" button for this purpose? If so, what is the "onclick" command that I need to use to return to the initial scene. Thank you again for your kind response!

Reggie

Umalo, thank you so much. Used the code below to crop a button out of the existing vtourskin.png. It works flawlessly!

<layer name="skin_btn_back" style="skin_base|skin_glow" crop="64|450|64|64" align="bottom" x="180" y="4" scale="0.5" onclick="if(startscene === null, copy(startscene,scene[0].lake red rock map));
loadscene(get(startscene), null, MERGE);" />

What about returning to the thumb corresponding to the returned to scene? I see that the thumbnail panel doesn't "follow suit" when the new button returns the viewer to the initial scene. Here's the project:[url]http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/washburn/tour.htm[/url] l Any kind of simple code for that? Thanks in advance - Reggie

Hmmm. This morning I looked again and the thumbnail does revert to the corresponding initial scene - like you say. I don't know what you mean by "errors in the log." I have noticed that Firefox will not refresh using the F5 key and I have had to manually delete recent history in order to see changes. I shut the machine off last night and when I woke up, the problem didn't exist! Thanks as always for your kind response!

Ahhh,

Thanks again Umalo for teaching me. My customer wants me to have some of the scenes immediately "dissolve" as she terms it, into the successive scene. I went looking through the forum to see if there were any "transition" options and the only one I found was some code for an autotour "timer" posted by Sachagriffin. I wasn't able to make it work. My thinking is to establish the autotour timer at 30 seconds per scene and then reduce that to 2 or 3 seconds only for "dissolve" scenes. I forgot to remove that code. Do you know if this is a good solution if I could figure out how to do it? Alternatively, is there any way to effect a fast "dissolve" only for specific scenes w/o setting the autotour up for the entire project? Many thanks in advance for your advice!

Reggie