It can be done, but as far as I know, you have to edit the xml to achieve it.

http://test.anra.org/gyrotest (this url is for my testing, so it will not be available indefinitely)

You'll need to have a couple of images to use as buttons:
http://test.anra.org/gyrotest/builddata … nabled.png

http://test.anra.org/gyrotest/builddata … sabled.png


and you'll need to add a couple of buttons to the menu section of the xml:

<plugin name="gyroOFF" align="bottom" blendmode="normal" crop="0|0|65|65" customColor="true" height="prop" keep="true" onclick="switch(plugin[gyro].enabled);set(plugin[gyroOFF].visible,false); set(plugin[gyroON].visible,true);" onout="" onover="" onovercrop="0|65|65|65" url="builddata/graphics/menu/menu-gyro-enabled.png" visible="" width="40" x="200" y="10"/>
    <plugin name="gyroON" align="bottom" blendmode="normal" crop="0|0|65|65" customColor="true" height="prop" keep="true" onclick="switch(plugin[gyro].enabled);set(plugin[gyroON].visible,false); set(plugin[gyroOFF].visible,true);" onout="" onover="" onovercrop="0|65|65|65" url="builddata/graphics/menu/menu-gyro-disabled.png" visible="false" width="40" x="200" y="10"/>

and you may also want to add something to the firstloadcompleteadedaction to hide the button on devices where it doesn't make sense:

    <action name="firstloadcompleteaction">
        if(plugin[data].firstPanoHasBeenPlayed==false,
            set(plugin[data].firstPanoHasBeenPlayed,true);
            set(autorotate.enabled,false);
        );
        <!--hide gyro button if we're not on an html5 device-->
        <!-- this really should be something like "if(plugin[gyro].available==false,", but I can't get it to work-->

        if(ishtml5==false,
            set(plugin[gyroOFF].visible,false);
        );
    </action>

Hope that helps. I'll update if I figure out how to get the button to hide properly.

Jeremiah thank you very much for the feedback (I didn't get an alert to a reply to my post so I've only just seen it now) but I will definitely give this a try and see how it works.

I've just tested your link http://test.anra.org/gyrotest and it works perfectly. No gyro buttons shown on PC using Chrome but view on iPhone and Gyro button appears and works! Thank you very much.

I've never edited my xml code before but I'll definitely be trying this. It would be nice if it was the default output from PTP with the iOS output selected or if I could create a custom theme/template that included this. I have a custom HTML template but IIRC you can't create an XML template?

Jeremiah wrote:

I will probably need to set some of this up for myself, and I would be happy to share, but it will most likely be after Christmas before I will have time.

That's very kind of you and I'd love it if you could share that with me.

Hi there,

Jeremiah, thanks for the info so far, seems to be the only thread here on the subject. First time creating the gyro function and felt it would be obvious to have a enable/disable function. I downloaded your templates pack, just trying to locate where to add it in. I'm on a mac, tried to 'show contents' to put it in there, but no such folder. Where is the resources folder? Some help would be great thanks.

I wonder, in the end, did you manage to get it up and running well? The sample gyro tour is not there anymore. Thanks.

G

Jeremiah wrote:

The templates folder is accessible from within panotour under the edit menu.

Here: