Enable user to copy text visible in a tour

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frostyfriday
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I would like to enable my users to be able to copy text I present to them in a text box.

Currently I can't seem to be able to do this. At least not on a mac running chrome.

I am outputting a text box with the url and node so that the can easily copy and paste it to use in an email that they want to sent t a customer of a particular node.

If someone else has got this working, I would love to see how.

I am placing static text in my textbox "Http://tour.awden.com/123abc123/index.html#$un"

I would like:

1) To be able to copy the text or have it automatically sent to the clipboard.
2) Automate retrieving the base URL so that I don't need to update it each time.
3) Use the node ID sometimes instead of a custom node ID.

I've had several customers ask me for this in tours and I have often wanted to be able to do it myself when visiting other peoples tours. It is nice to be able to link directly to a cool scene your saw in a tour.

-Dennis
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Tony
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Hi Dennis,

Unfortunately that link you supplied goes to a "404" page.

I've had a go at trying to match some of your "likes";
1) To be able to copy the text or have it automatically sent to the clipboard.
Yes, that is possible and it's working in the sample file. Check it out at http://tonyredhead.photography/360/copy/index.html

Each panorama has a Custom Node ID number1, 2 etc. On each panorama is a button that when clicked loads a URL with the custom node number for that node. Now I haven't found a way to automate it but I am using html include files so it's easy to update the URL outside of the skin.
2) Automate retrieving the base URL so that I don't need to update it each time
Can't figure that one out
3) Use the node ID sometimes instead of a custom node ID.
Should be possible

cheers,

Tony
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frostyfriday
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Hi Tony, thanks for the help.
Unfortunately that link you supplied goes to a "404" page.
sorry, that link was just a dummy to show what the link would look like.
Here is the actual tour: http://tour.awden.com/234a7/

The link above is what I have finally sent to the customer. It is ok but I am not very happy sending it out with the mobile side of it behaving the way it does. Right now it defines "User Hostile" but I am off backwoods camping this morning and needed to get it out. At least it kinda looks ok. I will work on the mobile side over the next two weeks. Luckily my client wants the tour mostly to be able to show customers that walk into the office what the place looks like without needing to walk them all over the facility which takes an hour or so.
As you can see there are quite a few panos so automation is key. I cannot manually create a textbox and associated link for each pano.

I like that sample you sent. That is pretty much what I want to do. How did you put the info onto the clipboard?
If you look at that example of mine, I put the following into a textbox: "http://tour.awden.com/234a7/#$un". This puts the Custom Node ID onto my base URL and displays it. It means I have to add a custom node ID to every pano which is a pain but it works. I am told that adding the Node ID is coming soon. It would be nice to be able to pull the base tour URL from somewhere too but I have not figured that out yet. That would allow me to put the tour anywhere and still have the right base URL - not the end of the world but would be nice.

Do you know if one can get a right click to work in a tour? I did not see a way.

BTW I noticed your link looks like this: "http://tonyredhead.photography/360/copy ... ml#number1"
By mistake I found that it will also work like this: "http://tonyredhead.photography/360/copy/#number1" (leaving out the index.html) which is slightly less typing if your user enters it manually.

The backend of my skin is a mess right now because I have been trying so many different things to try and get what I want to work. Each time I come up with a new method, there is something that doesn't work for what I am trying to do.
If anyone has a skin out there that does more or less what I am trying to do, I'd love to see it.

I think when I get back I am going to make a tour with some dummy backgrounds like you have and then slowly work on each portion alone until I get it working. That way I can easily post it on the forums and also keep the focus just on the problem at hand.

I got hopeful when I saw the examples on the forum for using a button for Google, facebook & twitter but I could not find a way to change the url in software so that it points to the url of that node. I have a lot of panos and setting up a url for each one by hand and then its own link button will drive me nuts.

-Dennis
Dennis Frost
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Awden Photography - http://Awden.com

Virtual tour samples: http://bit.ly/PaintedBoat, http://bit.ly/ShelterPoint, https://roundme.com/embed/hB6FOhIv0JvPfnQhk0F2
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