Need help with Sliding Dock

[JB Designs]

Please forgive me as I am still really new to making themes, but I'm kind of stuck and could use a bit of help

The theme I am currently working on has an 18-icon sliding dock, which I made according to a tutorial by MattG, as well as it has the hidden today. When in Theme Builder I have the navigation set up so that I can move from the sound profiles in the banner, down to the today area, then down to the first icon on the sliding dock. This is where the issue is.

For some reason, when there is no text in the today area, scrolling from the sound profiles down to the first icon makes the entire dock shift one direction then back again. It looks like its goes to the dock, slides through the icons and back to slot 1, if that makes sense.

Is there a way to fix this so that navigating from the sound profiles to the first icon on the dock (when there are no today entries) looks smoother?

Also, is there an easy way to make this a sliding dock that can be hidden with hot keys?

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!

[JinmoK]

It sounds like there is a repeat animation? There is a tutorial on BBThemeLab where they show you how to make docks without repeat animations. I struggled for a while with repeat animations but the general idea is that you need one button to set it to a position, then another to set it to the same position.

ie. make your sound profiles button (#hs_profile) also move the first icon to wherever it is (ex. 0,0) on focusin.

As for hotkeys, on OS 5 you can simply use

<set xlink:href"#____" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="accessKey(_)" /> (fill in the blanks)

and another one that sets it 'to="inline" ' with a different key.

Unfortunately on OS 6 the only key you can use is ESCAPE without showing the search page.

Hope this helps.

[JB Designs]

Originally Posted by JinmoK

It sounds like there is a repeat animation? There is a tutorial on BBThemeLab where they show you how to make docks without repeat animations. I struggled for a while with repeat animations but the general idea is that you need one button to set it to a position, then another to set it to the same position.

ie. make your sound profiles button (#hs_profile) also move the first icon to wherever it is (ex. 0,0) on focusin.

As for hotkeys, on OS 5 you can simply use

<set xlink:href"#____" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="accessKey(_)" /> (fill in the blanks)

and another one that sets it 'to="inline" ' with a different key.

Unfortunately on OS 6 the only key you can use is ESCAPE without showing the search page.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply JinmoK!

I ended up getting the issue with the sliding dock fixed by tweaking the navigation path on theme builder.

As for the rest, I'll have to look more into what you're talking about when I get back on my laptop where I can look closer at my svg to see if I can figure it out.

Thanks again!

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[JinmoK]

My mistake, you can use hotkeys in OS 6 (someone answered my thread)