krpano Combobox Accordion menu

No wouldnt be possible. Atleast probally real hard.

You'd be best to create this using as3 (lots of example on activeden.net)

or you could create some sort of textfield parent system. But this would require alot of krpano knowledge.

The textfield parenting-technique Zephyr mentioned would be my choice to go. Should´nt be that hard, because it´s mainly a zorder, parent-child and tweening-thing. But I´m not sure if the textfield-plugin supports masking?!

Best regards
Nupsi

Quote from Nupsi

The textfield parenting-technique Zephyr mentioned would be my choice to go. Should´nt be that hard, because it´s mainly a zorder, parent-child and tweening-thing. But I´m not sure if the textfield-plugin supports masking?!

Best regards
Nupsi

The tweening would be the hardest. For example, pressing the center item, pushes the the bottom one down, while tweenclosing the previous content while tween opening the center content. Getting this nailed is hard without proper event dispatching. If the textfield plugin doesnt support masking, it would be even harder.

I did a system like this in flash http://www.viadrupsteen.nl

It has variable text, content,width, height, colors, a scrollbar and some other feats.

Your flash-version is pretty cool, Zephyr I just created a self configurated scroll-textfield with autosize- and tween-functions in krpano and can imagine the work behind it!

And I agree, redoing the exact same behavior in krpano just with xml would be a dependency-nightmare. But I think as soon as the dependencies are in theory on the paper, the programming would´nt be that hard. I guess the hardest thing would be to not loose the overview in the if-trees. Right now I´m working on an xml-image gallery where you can just drop the images in a predefined folder and man, this is giving me a hard time I can barely see the red line in my own code

Best regards
Nupsi

Quote from Nupsi

Your flash-version is pretty cool, Zephyr I just created a self configurated scroll-textfield with autosize- and tween-functions in krpano and can imagine the work behind it!

And I agree, redoing the exact same behavior in krpano just with xml would be a dependency-nightmare. But I think as soon as the dependencies are in theory on the paper, the programming would´nt be that hard. I guess the hardest thing would be to not loose the overview in the if-trees. Right now I´m working on an xml-image gallery where you can just drop the images in a predefined folder and man, this is giving me a hard time I can barely see the red line in my own code

Best regards
Nupsi

The trick is not to use alot of if statements. A menu is not that different than a gallery. They're a list of object, one being a texfield and the other an image :)

I usually start creating a abstract array, thinking, which property do I want to make variable. For instance:

<gallery maxrows="3" current_selected="0" >
<image name="img1" title="pretty beach" url="/images/img_1.jpg" />
</gallery>

Then it's basicly doing a foreach loop using the new for (or asyncfor) method in krpano

for(set(i,0), i LT gallery.count, inc(i),
   add_image(get(i));
);


<action name="add_image">
   txtadd(thumbnail, 'thumb_', get(i));
   addplugin(thumbnail);
   copy(plugin[get(thumbnail)].ref, gallery.image[get(i)].name) <!-- store reference of the array -->
   set(plugin[get(thumbnail)].onclick, show_image());
   set(plugin[get(thumbnail)].width, 50);
   set(plugin[get(thumbnail)].height, 50);
copy(plugin[get(thumbnail)].url, gallery.image[get(i)].url);
set(plugin[get(thumbnail)].onhover, showtext(get(gallery.image[get(ref)].title));
</action>


<action name="show_image">
   copy(gallery.current_selected, get(ref));
   etc ...
</action>

I think Tuur has a good xml gallery script I helped him with, somewhere on this forum