Mousewheel Support for Inverted Horizontal Slider is Buggy

I found a bug in the mouswheel-support for silver vertical slider.
If I invert the scale, the cursor jumps to the top of the scale. Does anyone can confirm this behavior?
Added is a VI with two slider, with inverted and normal scale to reproduce the behavior.
I use LabVIEW 2014.

Hi NiklasN91,
tested it and could reproduce your problem.
I created a Bug Report at NI and the referencenumber is #534906

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[svn] 4078: Add support for dataTips to Slider

Revision: 4078
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-11-11 17:41:52 -0800 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
Log Message:
Add support for dataTips to Slider
SDK-16291 Implement data tip for slider
- Added new dynamic, optional skin part called "dataTip".
- Added dataTipFormatFunction, dataTipPrecision and showDataTip properties
- Added protected function positionDataTip
- Added dataTip skin part to FxHSliderSkin and FxVSliderSkin
- data tip is an IDataRenderer, so it can render any type of data
The data tip appearance is defined entirely by the skin. The position of the
data tip is calculated using a combination of the skin and the Slider controller.
The following properties were not retained from the Halo Slider:
- sliderDataTipClass (the skin part allows the developer to define the data tip type)
- dataTipStyleName (styling is defined on the skin part)
- dataTipOffset (the offset position is defined in the skin part)
SDK-16823 - Gumbo Slider does not support scroll wheel to increment / decrement value
Slider listens for scroll wheel events anywhere on or off the stage while it has focus.
QE Notes: Test new properties, functions and data tip behavior
Doc Notes: Added new properties and functions
Bugs: SDK-16291, SDK-16823
Reviewer: Glenn and Gordon
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16291
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16823
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16291
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16823
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/components/FxHSlider.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/components/FxVSlider.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/components/baseClasses/FxSlider.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/components/baseClasses/FxTrackBase.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/skins/spark/FxHSliderSkin.mxml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/skins/spark/FxVSliderSkin.mxml

Kaffeegler
Try rolling your fingertip on the mouse pad. This works very well and you have much more control.
You've mentioned that you get fed up and then insert numbers or even click the up/down arrows.
Alternatively and I only found this out the other day - thanks Victoria B.
Use the comma , and period / stop . keys to navigate down / up through the settings below
LR4 settings
temp (white balance)
tint
exposure
contrast
highlights
shadows
white clipping
black clipping
clarity
saturation
vibrance
LR3 settings
temp (white balance)
tint
exposure
contrast
higlight recovery
fill light
black clipping
brightness
contrast
and use the + and - keys to move the sliders up and down in medium (±5) steps and press control / cmd and + - keys to use smaller (±1) steps. I think using the alt / option key with the + and - keys moves the sliders in larger (±10 oe 20) steps.
You can use the aleft right rrow keys, but for some reason (bug), they dont follow the focus with the , and ., so you still need to click on the sliders to move the focus from one setting to another if you prefer to use the arrows.
As I said above, the apple magic mouse is amazing for OSX snow leopard and Lion and is so intuitive for LR, but its an expensive mouse but IMHO well worth it
Hope these help, the , and . is a great alternative to rolling your finger on the touchpad.
hamish NIVEN Photography

Will there be support for Adobe Ideas with the Adobe Ink and Slide?

Will there be support for Adobe Ideas with the Adobe Ink and Slide?

We're working on an update to Ideas to add support for Ink & Slide. Stay tuned for further information as to timing.
Kim
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MST Support for MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 - DisplayPort 1.2 - Will it ever happen? (with sources)

So back in October, I purchased a brand new Macbook Pro Retina (MBPr), fully loaded with top of the line specs. I was soooo excited to have Thunderbolt 2 tech which Intel AND Apple describes as having DisplayPort 1.2a compatibility - which up to this point is unfortunately NOT the case. The point of the information/questions and requests in this article is to engage a conversation about the issues of not having MST support after Apple falsely mislead their consumers to think otherwise - especially when it is clear the MBPr is capable. Please read on...
Apple advertises that the Thunderbolt 2 ports on BOTH the MBPr and the new Mac Pro (NMP) will have 4K Display support with the famed 20gb/sec Ports (DisplayPort 1.2 only requires a little above 17gb/sec). Now that the 10.9.1 update has been released, we have failed to see MST or Multi-Stream Transport enabled on the MBPr Late 2013. Now, as for the New Mac Pro- it DOES have MST enabled in 10.9.1 with the AMD GPUs. For all of you out there that's questioning what this means, short answer is basically the Mac Pro will be able to power a 4K Monitor at 60Hz through the Thunderbolt 2 Port but the New MBPr is stuck with only HDMI 1.4 support which tops out at 4K 30Hz. 30Hz is unacceptable for anything but movies or a photo slideshow. At 30Hz the cursor will jump across the screen, eliminating any of the benefits of 4K.
BUT it gets worse...
Apple can be seen advertising that the new MBPr 15" model can power a 4K monitor THROUGH the Thunderbolt 2 Port here: http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt - This article quotes the following:
"Now with Thunderbolt 2 built into the new Mac Pro and MacBook Pro with Retina display, you can connect the latest 4K desktop displays and get double the bandwidth for your peripherals. And the two generations of Thunderbolt technology are compatible with each other."
Does this not let the consumer assume that the newest MBPr will be able to drive a 4K display through the Thunderbolt 2 Port? I would say yes it does, but at the time I wrote this, the TB2 Ports can't power a 4K display because, as previously stated, MST is disabled in Mavericks for the 15" MBPr Late 2013.
NOW, later on Apple posted the following article on 4K support here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6008
4K support on the MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013)
MacBook Pro supports 4K displays and Ultra HD TVs at the following resolutions and refresh rates with the built-in HDMI port:
3840 x 2160 at 30 Hz refresh rate
4096 x 2160 at 24 Hz refresh rate (mirroring is not supported at this resolution)
In the article above the New Mac Pro is listed as having support for a 4K Display with the Thunderbolt 2 Port (or MST DisplayPort 1.2a Technology) at 60Hz with no problem. This leads myself and many others to believe that MST will NEVER be enabled on the newest MacBook Pro Retina with Nvidia GPUs. Yes, 4K IS supported but ONLY through the HDMI 1.4 port, which has the limitation of only 30hz. This two-faced advertising is extremely upsetting to a LOT of people, including myself.
Interestingly enough, THIS IS NOT a hardware issue. If one ventures into Windows 8.1 via Bootcamp and connects a 4K Display via the Thunderbolt 2 (or through DP1.2) Port, the Display registers at 60Hz, thus proving that the Thundberbolt 2 Hub Controller is completely capable of MST DisplayPort functionality. Clearly this a driver issue with Apple, Nvidia or Intel or any combination. What Apple has done here is forcing any professional that desires stable and clear 4K technology through their MacBook Pro Retina to do so only using Windows 8.1 on their own machines! Definitely an oxymoron if you ask me...
Later on when the Mac Pro was ready for ordering, Apple placed the Sharp PN-K321 as a compatible option for a 4K Display. On the Store page featuring the (over three thousand dollar) Sharp 4K display, located here http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321-4k-ultra-hd-led-mon itor?fnode=53 Apple states the following:
"Note that 4K DisplayPort operation is only compatible with the new Mac Pro (Late 2013)."
All of that being said, and I'm terribly sorry for my wordy ranting...
This brings me to a final two requests to ANYONE reading this post:
a) Has anyone working with the new 10.9.2 Beta Update seen evidence that DisplayPort 1.2 capabilities will be enabled for the new MacBook Pro Retina (Nvidia 750M) with the promised "Graphics Driver Updates" within the next Mavericks update?
and
b) To others that purchased or were/are thinking of purchasing a new MacBook Pro Retina with TB2 Ports: If you are just as upset as me about this crushing blow to consumers that just purchased a $3,000 laptop that were promised something that wasn't delivered - I urge you please, write to Apple and let them know they are making a mistake. You can do this though the support page or through http://www.apple.com/feedback
Thank you for your precious time, and if anyone has anything to contribute to this issue, please jump in....

GOOD NEWS!
The Mavericks 10.9.3 update adds official support for Thunderbolt 2, 4K!
I'm not sure if you will be able to daisy chain anything to the 4K display. I've read that the design of Thunderbolt 2 includes support for DisplayPort 1.2 multi-stream (MST), which allows this type of daisy chaining with 4K, but we don't know if Apple has this supported on it's machines. Apparently it's been buggy in development because the graphics driver needs to work correctly with the Thunderbolt 2 host controller. I'm sure they will work it out if they haven't already.
The above is all via found information on this topic, but you can follow some more discussion here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1713876
One more note on Thunderbolt worth sharing: always keep your fastest peripherals closer to the computer in the chain. If you have a TB1 device directly connected to the computer, anything further down the chain will be limited to TB1 speed/capability regardless of it's native speed. Always connect TB2 devices first, and save anything TB1 for the end of the chain.

Also I need ndiswrapper support for solaris 10

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04/13/2004 10:01 AM 7,870 BCM43XX.CAT
03/31/2004 08:44 AM 11,960 BCMWL5.INF
02/19/2004 11:51 AM 300,928 BCMWL5.SYS
normally you install the drivers with ndiswrapper -i BCMWL5.INF then use -m to add it too the model loader program in linux which adds wlan0 to ifconfig and iwconfig programs
which also ndiswrapper requires the source code of the kernel to install the ndiswrapper right , it req. it too compile the drivers, and using the linux gui programs to setup essid and key wep info
also I use a script in kanotix to use /etc/network/interfaces to load the info on bootup etc.. to get my wireless network card up in linux.
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I got the solutiion from Canon Customer Serivce, temporary until the 10.10 download is released. It works:
"You can download the latest software updates at this address:
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/professional/professional_cameras/eos_digital_slr_cameras/eos_...
Please select "OS X Mavericks v10.9" using the drop-down menu on the page. You have to pick the previous version of Mac OS, because the options for OS X 10.10 Yosemite have not yet been populated. I sincerely apologize for any confusion this may cause. After selecting OS X 10.9, please click on the red triangle next to the word "Software" to see the software updates available for your computer. I would recommend updating all of your software including EOS Utility and Digital Photo Professional."
I never did find the drop-down menu, but I went into the site map and found what I needed.
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Lost support for CR2 (Canon RAW) in After Effects following AdobeCameraRAW 8.4.0.199 update

Has Adobe dropped Canon RAW support in After Effects?
I do timelapses. I grade in Lightroom, create xmps, then drag the folder containing the CR2s and xmps from the Finder window into After Effects to create the sequence.
I was post-processing timelapses in After Effects on April 7th, 2014. I then receive an update notification for Camera Raw 8.4.0.199. I closed all open apps and updated. Once the update had finished, I reopened the same project in After Effects, to find that After Effects no longer supports CR2 (Canon RAW).
Can't work with old projects containing CR2, likewise can't import new folders from the Finder window by clicking and dragging, or otherwise. Can't even import a single still CR2 file into After Effects since updating.
Error ( 39 :: 7 )
iMac 10.1 (maxed out)
MBP Retina 10.1 (maxed out)
CS6 Production Premium
Lightroom 5
Same results on both computers since updating.

Thanks Rick,
Though this workflow may be valid from this point on, I unfortunately have a library of around 11 TB of CR2 images that I use on a regular basis in After Effects. Going back and converting these images to DNG or JPEG would equate to an immesurable amount of time lost, not to mention the massive amount of additional hard drive space that would be required.
I've used this workflow on an almost daily basis for two and half years. I've only experienced a similar problem when Lightroom upgraded to version 5. AdobeCameraRaw was buggy when linking to other Adobe apps, but the problem was soon taken care of by Adobe.
Adobe still advertises CR2 support for After Effects 11 on their website. It worked without a hitch until the recent update.
Has anyone experienced similar problems?
Where can I find the install page for legacy versions of AdobeCameraRaw?

Is it possible to create a horizontal slider that includes both text and pictures?

I need to create a horizontal slider that includes both an image and selectable text, but I can't seem to figure out how to go about this in Muse. So far all I have been able to do is to use the Image description as the static text, but this text will not slide horizontally, it will just change, and the picture will slide underneath it.
I want both the picture of the phone, AND the text next to it to slide horizontally when the user clicks the next/previous buttons. The placement of the text needs to change depending on which message will be in the next slide, so it will be impossible to use the image description for this purpose.

Thanks for posting.
You can achieve this by using slid show. Add image to the slide and there is a text box at the bottom of the slideshow box, which you can drag and place on the image within the frame. Please refer the screenshot below.
Kind Regards
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Want to make one section a horizontal slider.

Hi,
How can I make one contained section of my site become a horizontal slider... I will have related content to the left and to the right of the main (default) screen section.
This 'screen section' display, however, is not full-screen I should mention; that is OK though, I do not need it to be.
Is this possible, and how can I go about making this a reality?
Right now, it is called <section id="listen"><div class="containerGray"> ...so that main landing portion gives a general overview. Then, if I can add a left and right slide (or more as needed), specific genres will be represented in each.
Yep, that's what I'd like to do!
Please advise how I can incorporate scripts to make this section part of a cycle.
Thanks!

OK, so functionality of this - hope that link works OK:
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really is the same thing as this?
fullPage.js One Page Scroll Site Plugin (scroll down slightly to the one labeled 'Create Sliders'...see how it has the large arrow at left & right?
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Thanks!

Horizontal Slider with dates

Hi All,
I wanted a horizontal slider with dates .
Can anybody help please.
Thanks

Hello,
Thanks, now I am getting some where. I have found the "ActSlider" and the "KeyFocus" property. I have discovered how the "Key Focus" property works, if you use the tab key to cycle thru all of the stuff on your front panel, it will eventually come into focus and the "Key Focus" property will go true. Unfortunately the operation of the horizontal slider control if done with the mouse, so using that property will not help me.
The help for the "Active Slider" says that it shows which slider/needle is active, well that does not help me.
I am using a horizontal slider control to for 2 functions on the front panel, they are:
Indicate the current test step ( a number from 1 to 1000, poistion gets updated after each step is completed)
Allow the user to select the desired test step
I would like to have the user drag the slider to where they want to go and when they release the right mouse key I can go directly to where they want to be at. How if they want to jump 20 steps forward or backs I get 20 changes. If I just click on the slider bar (not the slider itself) I can go directly to where I want to be. So how can I make this work by having the user drag the slider and go directly to where they want to be?
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[svn] 1307: modules: added support for automatically adding " use namespace X", depending on the -target-player value

Revision: 1307
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-04-18 16:28:33 -0700 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008)
Log Message:
modules: added support for automatically adding "use namespace X", depending on the -target-player value
* similar to how we add "use namespace AS3"
* symmetric with ASC's -use feature, however we don't have equivalent commandline support yet
Bugs: n/a
QA: Nothing in particular, except for testing the new functionality of -target-player (email me about this)
Doc: Maybe: If we doc about "use namespace AS3" being added to all Flex compiles, we may want to talk about this.
Reviewers: Pete and Erik
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/flex-config.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/lib/asc.jar
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/embedding/BatchCompiler.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/embedding/Compiler.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/embedding/ScriptCompiler.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/parser/Parser.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/util/Context.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/util/ContextStatics.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/SymbolTable.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/as3/MetaDataParser.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/common/Configuration.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/common/DefaultsConfigurator.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/css/StyleDef.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/css/StyleModule.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/css/StylesContainer.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/mxml/InterfaceCompiler.java
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Thanks for your attention.
In the above logs, higher resolutions seems to be detected on both screens, hence my surprise :
[ 391.631] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output LVDS1
[ 391.631] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1600x900"x60.0 110.00 1600 1664 1706 2010 900 903 906 912 -hsync -vsync (54.7 kHz eP)
[ 391.897] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output HDMI1
[ 391.897] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x59.9 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 +hsync -vsync (64.7 kHz eP)
If it can help here is also my current xrandr output (after having called it manually to use the preferred resolution of each screen)
itanguy ~ $ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
1600x900 60.0*+ 40.0
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 434mm x 270mm
1680x1050 59.9*+
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
If needed, I may reboot and provide xrandr output after boot (it will be 1024x768), or could other logs help you ? Please ask...

Feature request: Slideshow module support for video files

I'm very excited about your MTS support!
Feature request: Slide show module support for video files...
Say you have 10 takes to choose from. Are you able to almost like SLIDESHOW view the 10 clips full screen so you can decide, like a playlist? Or rate them as they play? It would also be great, like SLIDESHOW to be able to export a MP4 with a title, the 10 clips you are working with, and maybe add an end title and a song, just like SLIDESHOW.
I have found editing stills like this in slideshow far faster than in any other editing program.
Basically, I just need a fast means to view or export an MP4 of a set of video clips to review. You are almost there.
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I keep getting message on Iphone and Ipad Enter password for the Exchange account "Chris Buggy" when I try to access my personal email.

I keep getting message on Iphone and Ipad "Enter password for the Exchange account 'Chris Buggy' " whenever I try to access my personal email account. I tried all possible personal passwords and none work. This is company issued Iphone and Ipad.

Hi StuNYC,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you're seeing an alert message when opening Mail on your iOS devices. Do you have multiple email accounts setup on the devices? Take a look at the article below, it provides suggestions that will resolve most issues that cause an alert like that to appear in when starting the Mail app.
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I hope this helps.
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Online Meet-up 3. Does SAP provide explicit support for ALE?

hi,
yes, it does support.
for details on what is ALE please refer
Online Meet-up, 4. What is ALE?
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Please refer to SLIDE NO: 11 of the On-line Meetup Presentation for details on where ALE fits in SAP context.
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Correct dimensions for Power POint Slides

What would you all recommend for dimensions for Power Point slides so that they fill up the screen
with no border. My customer is cramming too much text on each slide and it is beyond title safe, going to near edge of TV screen upon viewing.
I have sequences that are both 16 x9 (720 x 480) and 4 x3 .
Thanks,
Al

I agree with that much text it is not looking good on the TV that I am testing it on. On computer it is better. I thought about the color layer below the slide but the design of the slide has 2 color boxes, (one horizontal, one vertical) on it and putting a layer below doesn't look good so far.
I am probably going to have to edit each slide and shrink the font and increase the borders.
I am talking to the admin who made them today.
A bigger problem is that they have trouble playing the DVD's I make with iDVD in their PC environment. The DVD's either play jerkily or not at all compounded by the fact that the people have lost all the remotes to their DVD players and can't pick a chapter. So I am trying to come up with work around.
Thanks for response,
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IBooks support for auxiliary content and linking?

I have a couple of questions for the iPad/iBooks owners out there that I hope can answer them for me. I'm in Canada, so I won't be getting an iPad for at least another month or more (also waiting for the 3G), and I don't have any readily available access to one to try for myself.
1) This is a bit technical, but I'll just come right out and ask it. How is iBooks support for auxiliary content (non-linear content documents, in ePub parlance)? Does it do anything special with it (pop-ups, tooltips, side bars, slide-out panels, etc...), or does it just ignore it and lump it in with the rest of the "real" content?
From a cursory glance, it looks like Microsoft has done something similar with their proprietary .LIT ebooks (which are apparently based roughly on the same specs as ePub, i.e. XHTML and CSS). But I get the feeling this functionality has gone the way of multi-angle DVDs, which is to say no one bothers with it.
2) And my next question comes from having tried various ePub readers on the iPhone. None, but Stanza seem to even get this remotely correct (some completely ignore them, some render them but don't do anything with them, and one attempts to do something with them but spits out errors). I have an ePub that uses footnotes heavily (in the dead-tree version they're footnotes, in the ePub they're essentially endnotes). The ePub in question doesn't have chapters, but it has been broken up into multiple chunks (multiple XHTML content documents behind the scenes). The footnotes are accomplished by linking (and back-linking) a la standard HTML hrefs between said chunks. I assume iBooks is Webkit-based and this isn't a problem at all (i.e. it's just like using a web browser in that regard)? Also, am I correct that there's no "back" button/function except in the TOC?
3) Based on all the PR and guided-tours, etc..., I presume iBooks strictly conforms to a paginated view? There's no scrolling layout/view, and by extension a way to do auto-scrolling?
4) How does text-to-speech work? Will it read the whole book, or does it only read, for instance, your current selection?
Thanks!

Jon Walker wrote:
How is iBooks support for auxiliary content (non-linear content documents, in ePub parlance)? Does it do anything special with it (pop-ups, tooltips, side bars, slide-out panels, etc...), or does it just ignore it and lump it in with the rest of the "real" content?
It isn't handled by the reader at all. It is handled by the ePUB generating application. Non-linear content, if included, is usually ordered as found, i.e., it uses a left-most, top-to-bottom ordering algorithm. This usually means it ends up at the end unless aligned to the left edge of the source document above the inline content or interspersed between other non-linear and linear segments if also included. To ensure content displays with associated text, it is normally anchored, inline, just before or just after the desired text. Some generating apps indicate an ability to perform left/right alignments with text wrapping around inline images but I have yet to personally try this.
You'll have to excuse my ignorance, Jon, but I barely understand anything you wrote just then. I've only been playing with ePubs for the last several days, so I still have a very limited understanding of the specs, and have only a small collection of samples (which are very simply constructed), so I don't know the full breadth of what's possible in ePub. For instance, in my example ePub, one content document ends at the end of a paragraph, and the next document begins at the start of the next paragraph.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my current understanding of "content documents" are that they're essentially XHTML pages, and the only reason they're broken up inside the container is either for semantic reasons, to reduce initial load times, or to support older readers. And basically a reader will load them sequentially when it comes time to display them (i.e. next chapter, via a link, etc...), assuming in the 'spine' section they're listed as being linear (either explicitly or by default).
The only examples I've seen where a particular 'itemref' has had its 'linear' attribute set to 'no' are things like covers and footnote sections (I believe the IDPF also uses the example of an answerkey in a textbook). I guess it's a two-fold question. I'm having a hard time envisioning what other elements in a book one would want to mark as non-linear. I guess things like a glossary, a table of illustrations, an index, etc... (i.e. stuff that's important to the book, but you wouldn't want to read linearly with the actual content of the book). I should point out I write Windows apps for a living, and have no understanding of how the publishing industry works, or what goes into the making, designing, or laying out a book.
And second, it seems the specs leave it completely up to the reading device to determine what it wants to do with these non-linear documents. Hence, why I asked how iBooks handles them.
You lost me when you started talking about edges, anchoring, and wrapping. To me, that sounds more like formatting decisions one would have to make inside an XHTML document. But I'm always open to being schooled on a subject.
I have an ePub that uses footnotes heavily (in the dead-tree version they're footnotes, in the ePub they're essentially endnotes).
I believe this is essentially correct. Since ePUB files have no defined pages, the footnotes become endnotes the the specific generating application determining if they display at the end of the book or at the end of the chapter. E.g., Since Adobe InDesign requires segments (cover page, title page, chapters, etc.) be generated as independent documents with are later assembled as a "book," I believe its "endnotes" automatically display at the end of the individual documents which make up the book while other applications use inline tags to break up a single "book" document into independent XHTML documents but place all "endnotes" at the end of the "book" rather than within each XHTML document created from the tagged segment where found in the main source document.
From what I've seen in the specs, it makes sense that, with the way the specs are at this time, the onus is on the generator to figure out how to use and where to put the footnotes. Without a standard way of defining them, there's no way for a reader device to know what it's looking at is a footnote or not.
I was just hoping in my heart of hearts that Apple had somehow solved the problem. After all, they were the ones throwing the word "magical" around when describing the iPad.
As a side note, would you know if iBooks properly supports the page-break-before and page-break-after CSS styles?
Based on all the PR and guided-tours, etc..., I presume iBooks strictly conforms to a paginated view? There's no scrolling layout/view, and by extension a way to do auto-scrolling?
I've not found a way to scroll but then I prefer paging through the document with a tap than continuously "swiping" and so have not looked all that hard.
Yeah, not a dealbreaker by any means. Just something I've started playing with on my iPhone reader, and have kinda started to enjoy. But I'll make sure not to get too comfortable with it now.
As for the text-to-speech (which I wouldn't use anyway), I guess it's using the VoiceOver APIs that Apple includes in the SDK(?), and, no, it won't automatically read a whole book for you, but it will read at most a page at a time. Apparently, this is their work-around for the same grief that Amazon got with the Kindle's speech feature.

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