Non Touchscreen Scrolling dock?

[StaticFX]

I have a theme i am creating for the S2 i on the left and right side of the dock... touch it and the dock switches to the next 4 icons. 3 docks... no animation, just next 4 icons appear.. (12 in all)

How do I do this for a non touchscreen? like a curve or bold.. etc... is there a trick to it? I know I could use a key on the keyboard, but that seems like a pain -

I want it so as the scroll to the left or right it will switch? will that work the same (onfocusin?) any special order of icons/buttons?

Lol lots of questions!

THANKS!

[ahaz86]

we usually use a button that you have to click because people over scroll a lot on trackball/pad devices.

[StaticFX]

You mean like a key on the keypad? Or click with the trackball? If its a key is there a common choice for left and right?
Thanks!

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[berrygoodthemes]

sliding screen is simple with a tweek of the hidden dock animation coding which is found in the samples folder of theme builder.
instead of the coding backing the dock go up you can make it so it goes across i.e. switches from screen to screen


<animateTransform xlink:href="#Layer1" id="_anim_l1" attributeName="transform" type="translate"
to="485,0" dur="0.5s"
fill="freeze"
begin="Theme_Button_7.focusin" />

if you have 6 icons across the base of the screen and then 6 across the base of the screen but off the screen if you know what i mean, then the above code will slide the 6 icons which are off screen - on screen when you scroll to button 7.
copy this code for each of the icons on each side of the sliding screen you want to use at the very end of the svg coding.

if sliding to the right then use -485 instead of 485

this will work on all 480x screen res, code is different for smaller res screens.

is quicker and easier than adding more hidden buttons.