Charles, Why don't you organise the pages in cards and swipe those cards? There are visual effects that give the appearance of sliding pages from right to left or the reverse.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Economy-x-Talk is looking for an amateur painter/cartoonist/poet etc. Contact me http://qery.us/du The Economy-x-Talk office is closed from 29 August until 4 September 2012. On 14 sep 2012, at 22:19, Charles E Buchwald wrote: > I'm working on an iPad app that is essentially a photo book. > I've created a big scrolling group of images that are 1024 x 768, and a > mobile controller to manage the scrolling. > A couple of chapters are longer than 30+ pages, and were not scrolling as > expected. It took me a while to realize I was encountering a limit to the > width of the content of a scrolling group. Reorganizing the chapters to be > less than 30+ pages each is not an option at this point. > > Has anyone come up with a strategy for dealing with very large scrolling > groups? > > I'm working on splitting the content into 2 groups, and a way to jump from > one to the other. It would be nice if it was relatively seamless, but that's > not essential. I expect I'll have to insert a sort of "read more..." button > at the "end" of group 1, hide group 1, show group 2, reset the scroll of the > mobile control to zero... and continue on scrolling. Then reverse the whole > process to go from group 2 to group 1. > > Back in the Supercard days, I once worked on a Myst-like game. I used just 2 > cards for most navigation, switching back and forth between them and changing > the graphics on the hidden, non-active card dynamically in response to the > next "step". All the navigation choices/options were held in a flat-file > database, so edits and maintenance was really convenient. > > I can vaguely imagine something like that with this scrolling issue... but > haven't figured out how it would all happen smoothly and seamlessly.... > > Any insights? > > Thanks, > - Charles _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
