hello.
i've been a devoted user of dynapi 1 for over a year now when i found
out that the project has gone opensource/sourceforge (well, you decide
- i don't really want to get into that legal stuff much), and suddenly
i realized (felt an urge, should i say) that old dynapi 1 is not very
compatible with newer browsers like mozilla/n6 and msie5.5, and so i
decided to move onto dynapi 2...
....crash boom bang. no documentation. good orbad, docs are a must
anyways. dynapi 1 boasted great examples and some fair docs plus
awesome dynduo pages - a place to start from. then i came into a
bigger problems...
i use dynapi primarily for layer management (basicly show layer / hide
layer, sometimes (the thing i need right now) - layer loading from an
external file) and for onmouse[over/out] images - that's roughly all.
any extensions are better crafted out in javascript by hand than by
any means of dynapi - i do not like to get into depths if everything
is just within a grasp, so to say...
the first thing i discovered about dynapi 2 (except for the lack of
docs) that the examples are plainly $#@%$#. take images, for example -
well i DON'T want to draw a layer then draw an image then move it to
some position then put another script to change it - all i want is
simple old good <img> tag within my dynapi layer that could be changed
by means of onmouse[over/out] and dynlayername.img, that's all. when i
take, for example, dynapi.gui.dynimage example html, i cannot figure
out how to SIMPLIFY it for my needs. any ideas on that ? moving
images, resizing images are great and fun and all that, but hey,
that's complicated. where's simple functionality ? :)
the second thing i discovered - well, i can't figure out how to load
an external file into a layer. the first dynapi was plainly tricky
about it, but the second boasts several ways of doing that and i'm
just puzzled - what to init first, what to init next, what to init at
all and when ? on page load ? after what code ?
i don't want to sound offensive or something but i see no reason to
implement mega functions while simple stuff cannot be discovered by a
rather proficient users of a previous version, so to say...
thus i have two things to tell.
first - any ideas how to make it simple and clear and quick with
images and loading layers in dynapi 2 ? (see above). i tried
richardinfo.com to look for some code snippets - but baaah, the site
is heavily dynapified and i'm getting a script error :) with my
msie5/w2k so i cannot browse anything there (here we came upon a
question that was hammered to death - functionality & usability versus
heaps of code for fun an visual effects).
second - if it would be of any good, i'd like to evaluate any answers
upon my first question[s] into a little article/primer on how to use
SIMPLE dynapi 2 code, not the useless dinosaur-like snippets which are
in the examples of a current distribution.
peace,
x.
http://xmypoe.com
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