counter for hotspots

[ftrippie]

Hi Guys,

Is there a way to use hotspots with a counter? Let me explain; I have 5 TABs with 10 thumbnail images each. At the bottom of the TAB, I am displaying LEFT or RIGHT hotspots. Clicking on either LEFT or RIGHT should show TAB-1 (minus 1) or TAB+1 (plus 1).

With 2 TABs, it's easy; LEFT means TAB1 and RIGHT means TAB2, but it is getting difficult with more TABs...

Of course I could define all 5 (or more), but is there no way to count TAB+=1 or TAB-=1 ?

Cheers,
FTrippie

[zleifr]

I believe what you are looking for is actually a way to refer to a hotspot as a string "tab" and an integer, and the answer to that is no, in the XML all the references have to be literals, as in tab1, tab2.

However, you could just write one function to display and another to hide each set of images, and then on you arrow you call the function that display the next group and hides this group AND switches the onClick function in you arrow spot to refer to the functions the will display and hide the subsequent group:

<spot id="arrow" onclick="showGroup2; hideGroup1"

and in <global showGroup2="
image10.visible=1
arrow.onClick=showGroup3;hideGroup2"
hideGroup1="image1.visible=0"

Hope that helps,

Zephyr

[cheathamlane]

And there's a plugin to help with that somewhere... :-P
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Outside of doing it in the XML, you could write a plugin or external Flash file which you load in as a spot that would handle all the switching for you.

The ability to handle conditionals is one thing I'd love to see as a new feature in FPP.

[zleifr]

hmm, I'd love to see that to. Maybe I can convince someone to do something about it.

[ftrippie]

thanks guys.

plugin? which one?

Cheers,
FTrippie

[cheathamlane]

thanks guys.

plugin? which one?

Cheers,
FTrippie

Hey FTrippie --

See links in my signature below (the grouped hotspots one).

Cheers,