Re: [Dynapi-Help] Image Preloading & Scrolling content in Skinwindow?

[Richard :o\) <ma...@ri...>]

Hi,
You do need pre-loading, 'cause the buttons change very slowly. (Nice site
BTW)
I waited a little to respond hoping someone would give an example of the
image and preloading object from DynAPI2, which I have not yet seen working.
I do however have another solution:

var mycount=0;
DynAPI.onLoad=function() {preLoad()}

function preLoad() {
        Load=new DynLayer(null,100,100,200,200)
        DynAPI.document.addChild(Load)        //this is used to write
"please wait" message
         pic1 = new Image();
         pic1.onload = (is.ns4b) ? loadCheck() : loadCheck;
         pic1.src = "images/pic1.gif";
         pic2 = new Image();
         pic2.onload = (is.ns4b) ? loadCheck() : loadCheck;
         pic2.src = "images/pic2.gif";
        //add all your images here...
}
function loadCheck() {
         mycount++;
         if(mycount == 2) {
                 DynAPI.document.deleteChild(Load)
                  showPage()    //this replaces what is now in DynAPI.onLoad
           } else {
                  if(mycount < 2) {
                  Load.setHTML('<h4>Loading the Image '+(mycount)+' of 2
images...</h4>')
            }}}

reference the images like this:
picOne.setHTML('<img src="'+pic1.src+'" >')
(although normally referenced images also show faster)

You can see this working in this work-in-progress:
http://sagar.richardinfo.com (choose one with dark background)

On your second question I'm afraid I don't really understand what you want,
do you want to insert a scrollbar, or dynamically resize the window, or is
it a text wrap/nowrap problem?

Richard:o)

----- Original Message -----
From: "b0n3z" <b0...@go...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:17 AM
Subject: [Dynapi-Help] Image Preloading & Scrolling content in Skinwindow?


> First let me say - What an AWESOME piece of work for all of you that
helped
> build DynAPI 2!
>
> Now for a newbie question:
> Can someone please tell me how to do Image Preloading? I'm using the
> dynapi2-16Sept2000 release as most of the examples seem to work for me.
I'm
> using several core.gui.skinwindow.js for all the small windows on this
site.
> It seems to be loading the images individually rather than from cache. If
> anyone has an example of this or could help - I would be greatfull. Here
is
> the site in progress. (excuse the mess - it's a work in progress and I'm
> sure there are mistakes) http://www.gotapex.com/b0n3z
>
> Also If anyone can tell me how to put a scrollable auto-resizing width
layer
> into a skinwindow. I'm have spent countless hours trying to learn. Here is
> an example so far: http://www.gotapex.com/b0n3z/test.html
>
> Hope to understand DynAPI 2 and Javascript as well as "the great ones" on
> here one day.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ken Jones
> b0...@go...
>
> ps - if anyone could help me on this - I would be greatfull and would
return
> the favor some way.
>
>
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