Thanks Ryan & Niels for your responses. Using your suggestions, I've *almost* got the behavior I want. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to switch to a particular view based on a value in the URL's query string. I've tested and the query string is getting parsed correctly and I know that the function to switch views works. My guess is that my onload function is getting stomped by SIMILE's events.
Has anyone had success doing something like that? Thx, -Mark On Aug 21, 10:42 pm, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote: > One way to "navigate to a viewpanel" is programmatically. > > Assuming you have a viewpanel containing views declared: > <div ex:role="viewPanel" id="vp"> > <div ex:role="view" ##exhibit.getComponent("vp")._switchView(0); > > ... </div> > <div ex:role="view" ##exhibit.getComponent("vp")._switchView(1) > > ... </div> > ... > </div> > > You can programmatically switch to the i-th viewpanel (0-based) with > exhibit.getComponent("vp")._switchView(i) > > Or alternately, my utility function, switchView("vp", i) switches to the > i-th declared viewpanel, returning true, > or returns false if already showing. When it returns false, it also means it > hasn't destroyed/recreated the contents > of viewpanels in the process of switching, due to the way viewpanels are > implemented). > > /**************************************************************************** > * switch viewpanels if not already showing, returning true. if already > * showing return false. > ****************************************************************************/ > function switchView(viewpanel_name, idx_in_viewpanel) { > var viewpanel = exhibit.getComponent(viewpanel_name); > if (viewpanel) { > if (viewpanel._viewIndex != idx_in_viewpanel) { > viewpanel._switchView(idx_in_viewpanel); > return true; > } > else { > return false; > } > } > else { > alert("switchView('" + viewpanel_name + "'," + idx_in_viewpanel + "): > viewpanel not found - '" + viewpanel_name + "'."); > } > > } > > Nielshttp://nielsmayer.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
