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a bit about frames
The jClicker uses web page frames. A web page with frames allows you to chop up the screen area into separate pieces, into which different pages may be loaded. It's like making one page be the composite of several others.
There are some problems for designing web sites with frames (inability to bookmark invidual pages, counter-intuitive navigation for the browser back buttons, problems for people with accessiblity challenges). However, the jClicker is not "normal" web content that would create these problems, and the frame meatphor is appropriate for a control area that must be always visible. We have incorporated appropriate code into the jClicker so someone unable to use frames can still access a file listing of the images.
For more information about frames, see NetScape's documentation or the very excellent Sharky's Netscape Frames Tutorial by Charlton Douglas Rose or Joe's Frame Tutor.
For the jClicker web pages, we are using two frames:
- The slide frame holds the main display. Think of it as the "screen" onto which we are projecting our slideshow.
- The clicker frame in the bottom is our control panel. Depending on what actions we take, the clicker frame tells the slide frame what to display.
Next:
We have some files to organize for your slide show Go!...
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