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Also a good idea with the additional layer.

Look into cookies to mark that a user has already seen the intro. You can either do that in PHP from wordpress or use a jQuery plugin to do it through JS. Other option would be to check the http_referrer in the PHP $_SEVER variable. If it’s empty or not your server then you know the user is not coming from your site to the current page and hasn’t seen the intro yet.

Have to say, am really not a big fan of intros, but that’s of course up to you, at least make sure people can skip it 😉

Hi Dominic, I checked up on the error you got when uploading a new animation. Can you try the new dev version http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/edge-suite.zip and check if you still get the error. Can’t reproduce the error, so that would help me a lot.

Thanks

In which file did you put the PHP code? What theme are you using? I can just tell you that the stage div doesn’t show up in the HTML code and it looks like the PHP from above doesn’t get called. Otherwise just give twentyeleven a try and check if it all works there, then you might know what to change in your theme.

Hi,

ok, so I just tried it. When you got the animation placed in the header, you can add the following to your CSS stylesheet (you have to look up the id of the div – search for ‘Stage’ in the HTML source code page view in the browser):

#Stage_Jack_3{
    position: absolute !important; /* That is not pretty, but no way around it. */
    top: 0px; /* Aligns the animation with the top of the header (can be removed or changed) */
    z-index: 5; /* Sets animation as overlay, set to negative value for background placement */

    /* Only use the following if you want to center the animation */
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -346px; /* Half the width of the stage */

}

Hi,

by looking at your code I seems you are using the header placement method (“Placement method B” http://edgedocks.com/content/edge-suite-integrate-edge-animate-wordpress). But there is no stage div in the source which probably results from leaving out the header.php edits as described in the tutorial. When there is no stage div edge will place the animation in the body and it won’t work as intended (as in your case with the overflow). Hope that helps.

Note: This seems to be highly related to http://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-center-edge-stage-whle-using-plugin as I think you are also trying to place the animation behind the actual content.

Hi Dominic,

happy new year to you as well!

I just looked at your page and I can’t find any stage div in the source. How do you include the animation? I’m not sure what you are planning will work with the plugin as you are trying to overlay the animation on other content. It “seems” to work because edge – for some reason – ankers the animation in the body if it can’t find the correct stage div, but that will result in strange behavior. The only thing I could think of right now is to use the “header method” as described in the Edge Suite tutorial to place the animation. Then you could try to overwrite the stage div css with !important and set it up as an overlay.
I would highly recommend asking over in the edge animate adobe forum and check how people do that in general. If they got it worked out we can check how we can make it work with the plugin.

Thanks for reporting the error, strange one as it’s related to removing a directory which doesn’t seem to exist. Problem seems to be the
glob($dir . '/*') call. I’ll try to figure out what goes wrong. Any idea what server and PHP version you are working on?

Am closing this issue due to inactivity and as I can’t reproduce the error. Please reopen when similar problems occur.

Am closing this issue as canvas support won’t be on the roadmap for some time. Createjs exports aren’t directly related to Edge Animate and are therefore a bit of a different use case.