Big Ben's Panorama Tutorials

FM2PTV: Hotspots and SHotpots.

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Most of the parameters on these screens are pretty self explanatory but there are a few limitations.  All hotspot and shotspot related fields are repeating fields (255 hotspots, 60 shotspots). Unfortunately you have to number them manually.
 


Hotspots

Coordinates

Coordinates are entered as pixel coordinates.  I've added the ability to specify the centre of a hotspot and the width and height of the hotpost in pixels.  You cannot specify both width/height and a/b coordinates. All coordinates are converted to relative coorinates.

Width and Height

This will recalculate x,y,a,b to give a rectangle of the required size centred on the coordinates entered for x,y.  This reduces the number of coordinates required for standard hotspots and allows you to change the size of the hotspot without having to remeasure/recalculate the coordinates.

Hotspot Action

There are 3 different fields for adding hotspot actions.  Only one action will be assigned to each hotspot.  If you assign more than one then only the first action will work.  The order of preference is: load pano, custom PTV action, URL.

Custom PTV Action must be entered with the full action, i.e. ust begin with ptiewer: or javascript:


SHotspots

These are entered in much the same way as hotspots. 

Begin numbering shotspots at 0.

The numbering of shotspots is automatically continued from the last global shotspot.

If no shotspots are entered, a dummy shotspot is created for the pano to prevent shotspots from a previous pano remaining active.

 


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Ben Kreunen <bernardk@unimelb.edu.au>
Department of Pathology
Last modified: February 24, 2003