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Carousel Feature

Description

This feature contains a collection of different types of items and positions like a carousel. It is a similar feature like asset flow.

Properties

Feature Name: This is the name of the feature, it can be changed from the default value.

x: This is the horizontal center point of the feature on the view.

y: This is the vertical center point of the feature on the view.

width: This is the width of this feature.

height: This is the height of the feature.

Orientation: This is the angle of the feature specified in degrees

Transparency: This a value that specified the transparency of the feature. 0 is completely invisible and 1 is not transparent at all

Initial Window State: This property specifies the initial feature state. When the view starts we can set the feature state to Minimized, Maximised or at a Normal predefined size.

Show Maximize Button: If this set to true feature shows the Maximize button. it can be used to Maximize the whole feature.

Show Minimize Button: If this set to true feature shows the Minimize button. It can be used to minimize the whole feature.

Show Pin Button: If this set to true feature shows the Pin Button. Pin button can be used to stick the feature at one position.

Show Close Button: If this set to true feature shows the Close button. close button can be used to close the whole feature from the view.

Minimized Image: When the feature gets minimized, we can use this property to set a new image to represent the minimized image.

Allow Move When Minimized: If this sets to true, we can move the minimized image.

Minimized Position: This property specifies the position of the minimized feature when it gets minimized. It can be minimized to Initial position or to Current position

Minimized Width: This is the width of the feature when it's minimized.

Minimized Height: This is the Height of the feature when it's minimized.

Minimized Orientation: This is the angle of the feature when it is minimized.

Allowed Move Directions: This specifies the feature movement on the view. it can move freely or horizontally or vertical or none.

Allow Rotate: If this sets to true, it enables free rotation of the feature.

Allow Resize: If this sets to true, it enables the feature to resize.

Max Zoom In: This value specifies the number of times allowed to zoom in.

Min Zoom Out: This value specifies the number of times allowed to zoom out.

Inertia Weight: This value specifies the weight of the feature. This makes the difference when features are moved from one position to another.

Mode: This property specifies the mode of input to the feature. It can be data-based or a folder based. data based takes XML as input. here we need to specify the asset path from the XML to create

asset items. Data based mode has the capability to group multiple items into an asset for example we can create a combination of an image feature and a text feature to form an asset. For folder based: it takes the assets from the given folder and creates items.

Linked Folder: If the mode is folder based, this property specifies the path of the folder.

Linked Data Asset: If the mode is data based, this property specifies the data asset path.

Selected Item Background: This property sets the background for the selected item.

Item Width: This property sets the width of the item.

Item Height: This property sets the height of the item.

Item Rotation: This property sets the angle of the item.

Click to Open: If this property is enabled, the clicked item will open as a feature.

Animation Speed: This sets Animation speed that the feature.

Gap: This is the gap between items.

Start Index: This indicates the position of the focused item.

Selected Index: This is a read-only property. Using this we can read the selected item index.

Selected File: This is a read-only property. Using this we can read the selected file name.

Number of Items: This is a read-only property. Using this we can read the total count of available items in the feature.

Events

Triggers

Key Pressed

Key Pressed: This trigger listens to the event of a key being pressed. It listens for the key that is specified in the parameter key

Parameter

Key: Character that it’s listening for

Timer

Timer: This starts a timer and executes the actions when the time is up. You can have it run multiple times by specifying the number of runs, 0 is to keep running indefinitely

Parameter

Duration: duration of time before executing actions

Number Of Runs: Specifies the number of runs, 0 is to keep running indefinitely

Touch

Tap: This trigger executes its actions when the user taps on this feature

Double Tap: This trigger executes its actions when the user double taps on this feature

Long Press: This trigger executes its actions when the user long presses this feature

Pressed: This trigger executes its actions when the user has pressed down on this feature

Released: This trigger executes its actions when the user has pressed down and released this feature

Gesture

Swipe: This trigger executes its actions when the user swipes on the feature in the direction specified

Parameter

Swipe Type: Here you can specify the direction of swipe to listen for

Global Variable: The distance of the swipe will be stored to this variable if one is specified

Drag and Drop

Is Dropped On: This trigger executes its actions when this feature is dragged and dropped on to another feature

Parameter

Target: This specifies the other feature that this feature has to be dropped on

Is Dragged Over: This trigger executes its actions when this feature is dragged over another feature

Parameter

Target: This specifies the other feature that this feature has to be dragged over

Container

Maximized: This trigger executes its actions when this feature is maximized

Unmaximized: This trigger executes its actions when this feature is restored from a maximized state

Minimized: This trigger executes its actions when this feature is minimized

Unminimized: This trigger executes its actions when this feature is restored from a minimized state

Collection

Slide Created: This trigger executes its actions when a new slide is created in the feature.

Carousel

Item Selected: This trigger executes its actions when an item is selected.

Actions

Print: This action calls the print function of the operating system of the device, it will print this feature the way it looks when the action is executed. For this to work the printer setting must be set up properly on the OS.

Parameter

Show settings popup: The printer setting popup of the OS can be shown before printing if selected

X:This action changes the x property of this feature to the value specified

Parameter

x:This is the target value

Y:This action changes the y property of this feature to the value specified

Parameter

y:This is the target value

Width: This action changes the width property of this feature to the value specified

Parameter

Width: This is the target value

Height: This action changes the height property of this feature to the value specified

Parameter

Height: This is the target value

Rotate To: This action changes the orientation property of this feature to the value specified

Parameter

Rotation: This is the target value

X Offset: This action changes the x property of this feature by adding the value specified

Parameter

x:This is the value to be added to the current value

Y Offset: This action changes the y property of this feature by adding the value specified

Parameter

y:This is the value to be added to the current value

Width Offset: This action changes the width property of this feature by adding the value specified

Parameter

Width: This is the value to be added to the current value

Height Offset: This action changes the height property of this feature by adding the value specified

Parameter

Height: This is the value to be added to the current value

Rotate By: This action changes the orientation property of this feature by adding the value specified

Parameter

Rotation Offset: This is the value to be added to the current value

Resize By Factor: This action changes the height and width of the feature by multiplying it by the specified factor

Parameter

Factor: This is the value which the height and width will be multiplied by

Move To Front: This action moves this feature to the front of all the features that is in the view. If this feature is inside a group feature it will be moved in front of all the other features inside that group only.

Move To Back: This action moves this feature to the back of all the features that is in the view. If this feature is inside a group feature it will be moved to the back of all the other features inside that group only.

Change Transparency: This action changes the transparency of the feature by to the value specified

Parameter

Alpha: Value to change the transparency to, must be between 0 and 1

Delete Feature: This action deletes the feature from the screen

Maximize: This action maximizes this feature

Minimizes: This action minimizes this feature

Toggle Maximize: This action toggles the maximize of this feature

Toggle Minimizes: This action toggles the minimizes of this feature

Normal: Restores the current feature if it is either maximized or minimized

Collection

Redraw: This action redraws the feature.

Add Row To TheTable: This action adds a new item to the data.

Parameter

Table: This is the target data

Delete Selected Item: This action deletes the selected item from the feature.

Carousel

Change Selected Index: This action changes the selected item based on the target value.

Parameter

Index: This is the target value