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henry
can this stuff be used as buttons for a website?
Oct 24th, 2008, 11:13am  
I think that some of the patterns that can be easily conjured would make really pretty buttons for a website. Once placed on a webpage can I somehow use it as a button, so by clicking it I get feedback which will trigger an action to send me to another page?
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rgilbank
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #1 - Oct 25th, 2008, 4:32pm  
Sure it COULD be used to build a menu for a site, but you have to think about accessibility and speed...for those who do have an up-to-date java install, it'll take a while to  load, far longer than any other part of the site.  My suggestion would be to build your sketch, output it as a .mov, convert to .flv and build the actual menu in flash which is designed for that kind of stuff.
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henry
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #2 - Oct 26th, 2008, 1:10am  
Thanks for your reply! Sunday must be the day of posting. The whole point about me going with Processing was to avoid Flash, I can't do HTML very well at all, I certainly can't do JavaScript or DHTML etc.. but I don't have flash and dont want to pay £900, so I went open source.

I basically have a main script to load and a button, that can't be much, I want to place them with css on an HTML page. No flash. The reason I wanted to use this as a button was because:

1. Of difficulty with JQuery buttons
2. For uniformity
3. Serendipity with a tutorial

The thing is I cannot right click one of the java object, which lead me to wonder if I could wonder if I could click it like  button.
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st33d
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #3 - Oct 26th, 2008, 1:47am  
Flex IDE is free, and it outputs a flash file
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henry
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #4 - Oct 26th, 2008, 3:14am  
I took a look, it looks powerful in the right hands. My hands not so. I like Processing for the fun shapes it makes. I'm sure I can find way to get what I want from Processing.

Thanks for the tip though.
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PhiLho 
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #5 - Oct 28th, 2008, 9:51pm  
I used link() to go to the wanted page, you can use modifiers (open in new window, etc.).
Just click on the green dot in my demo...
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henry
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #6 - Oct 29th, 2008, 5:56pm  
Thanks, I was looking however to link to an anchor in the same webpage:

<a href="#Bottom"><img src='448.gif'></a>

I tried a few combinations but they did not work, I am looking into treating the java applet as a clickable item so I can do this in HTML but not having much success.
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henry
Re: can this stuff be used as buttons for a websit
Reply #7 - Nov 9th, 2008, 11:40am  
Its so simple, sorry, just encapsulate the whole piece of java in between the link tags:

<a href="#Bottom">APPLET_HERE</a>


and then where to go, put this somewhere in the page:

<a name="Bottom">Bottom</a>
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