[05 Feb 2008] "Frames" in Holywood Designer

[lairdpleng]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:46:04 -0000

Is there any way to implement an IFRAME style object into Hollywood designer, perhaps through some constructive scripting?

Essentially what I would like to do is have a page with a list of menu options with a box to one side. Clicking on the various menu options would load a page from the presentation into the box, so there'd essentially be a page running within a page. Clicking a separate 'zoom' or 'enlarge' button would then run the page in the main window (the frame's parent)

[Clyde]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:58:45 -0000

Well, can't you use layers to achieve this behaviour? Or did you already try this and get in trouble as you wrote 3 days or so later ("Getting layered")?

Greetings

[lairdpleng]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:34:47 -0000

Thanks for your reply. I don't really see how I could fit a whole page into a layer? I thought that you could only assign one object to a layer?

[Clyde]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:24:59 -0000

Hm, yeah, I think you are right. But it would be a cool feature for the next update to but many objects in one layer and then just manipulate the layer (transparency, position, ...) -> @Andreas <-

So, the page you want to habe inside the page (the box) contains of many objects? Or just text?

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:40:05 -0800 (PST)

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but would creating a new brush, and then selecting the brush as the graphical output device using SelectBrush() do what you are wanting to do?

[lairdpleng]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:33:08 -0000

I don't think that would work, I'm not really sure. What I'm trying to do is run a page (or several pages) from within another page.

Page 1 for instance would display a scaled down instance of page 2 on one half, and a scaled down instance of page 3 on the other half. But rather than being a thumbnail, it would be a fully working version of the page, just smaller. The user could then press the right mouse button over the frame, and the presentation will jump to that page, generating the illusion of the mini-application scaling the page up to the full size of the window.

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:20:03 -0800 (PST)

Yes, I think if you play around with SelectBrush(),you will find that you can do what you want to do using it.

[lairdpleng]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:50:38 -0000

Ok thanks I will have a play and let you know how I get along