<action>

Description

actions allow both navigating between scenes in a tour and complex interaction with the panoramic scene. A single event can lead to the execution of multiple actions within the behavior.

Different nodes have different events, see the defenition of each node to see what events are available.

Syntax

<tour>
  <scene>
    <panoelement id="nodeID" ...\>
    ...

    <behavior id="behaviorID" />
      <action event="click" type="getURL"
        src="file.jpg" target="infoframe" />
      <action event="click" type="setProperty"
        target="nodeID"  property="visible" value="false"  />
      <action event="click" type="setView"
        scene="sceneID" pan="0" tilt="0" fov="90" />
    </behavior>
      ...
  </scene>

  <scene id="sceneID">
    ..
  </scene>
</tour>

Attributes

• event

  The event, fired by the parent element, that this action should respond to.

• type

  The type of action to perform

  The rest of the attributes of the action node depend on the type attribute. For a more indepth description of each type of action, see the API documentation

  • getURL

    Open a url in the specified frame. Attributes: src, target

  • setProperty

    Set a property of the specified object. Attributes: target, property, value

  • setView

    Sets the viewing direction and/or scene. Attributes: scene, pan, tilt, fov

  • logMessage

    Adds a message to the viewer log. Attributes: message, importance

  • setWindow

    Only functional in the SPi-V standalone viewers. Sets the viewer window state/size. Attributes: state

  • exitWindow

    Only functional in the SPi-V standalone viewers. Closes the viewer window.

Children

none

History

• 20-Apr-04: Initial version