XML SLIDESHOW WITH MASKING TRANSITIONS .V3

achieved multiple slideshows in a web project. It involves changing both xml path’s in the fla. Then marry up that path in the photos.xml for the images.

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Hello Ruben;

I have the same problem as anton123 whereas the slideshow appears “jerky” when using the “Ken Burns Effect”; is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Thank you in advance;

Ruben,

I’ve found that v3.2 is lower on CPU (although still very high…...). Question on the pause and play button as well as url linking:

It seems a hit and miss affair. I have to click the pause button about 10 times before it responds. Url linking also needs a string of clicks before it launches the link? (how do you get it to open the link in the same window?)

Please advise how to get this working right – nothing more frustrating for a customer who sees a pause button and wants to pause the slideshow, but it doesn’t respond…..

Re the jerky playback – I’ve found sticking to only L , R , T , B pans play back smoother than TL , TR , BL , BR …....

Thanks for the help.

hi

i just bought your slideshow. it’s good but there’s a problem…

the first time you view the slideshow from within my site its fine… but when you load it a second time the timings and fades on the pics mess up and go faster/randomly

please advise on how to fix this

thanks

Just purchased.

... but I can’t have the photos.xml file in the same directory as the main files. What can I do? The tutorial movie mentioned properties.pdf but there was no such doc in the zip file. It also mentioned a path to the xml files but I don’t see any specifics on that option.

I fogot to upload the slideshow.as file and there was no zooming. I then uploaded it and I saw zooming. So, is the .as file required for deployment. seems so?

Thanks. randy

Thank you flasher3015 for the help.

I replaced the line ‘movie’, ‘slideshow’,

in your javascript call, with

‘movie’, ‘slideshow?photosXML=http://www.mydomain.com/photos.xml&settingsXML=http://www.mydomain.com/irw2/settings.xml’,

but of course I don’t use mydomain.com but the real one. It looks like your function AC_FL_RunContent( is setup to parse that string.

I also uploaded the FLASHvars version of slideshow.swf but I am not getting a slideshow, just a black box. photos.xml has been verified for accurate pathing. All the code other than photos.xml is in the irw2 directory. Do I need to pass the var for settings.xml if that location does not change?

What do you think I need to do?

Still can’t get it to work. I have..

if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
    alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0',
'width', '500',
'height', '300',
'src', 'slideshow',
'quality', 'high',
'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
'align', 'middle',
'play', 'true',
'loop', 'true',
'scale', 'showall',
'wmode', 'window',
'devicefont', 'false',
'id', 'slideshow',
'bgcolor', '#000000',
'name', 'slideshow',
'menu', 'true',
'allowFullScreen', 'false',
'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
'movie', 'slideshow?photosXML="http://www.thedomain.com/photos.xml"&settingsXML="http://www.thedomain.com/irw2/settings.xml"',
'salign', ''
); //end AC code

(where thedomain.com is replaced with real domain name)

photos.xml has been tried with relative and fully qualified paths to the images which are in /irw2/homepics

I have the flashvars version of slideshow.swf in the irw2 directory. test page shows the flash object but all black.

Looks like there is no difference in photos.xml and settings.xml in the flashvars directory vs the ones in the regular directory, right. Nothing special for flashvars version that I can see.

what do you suggest?

flasher,

there is no .html example file for your flashvars code or else I would not be asking. I’ve looked in all your directories. Can you send an example of calling your flashvars code to randy at leross dot com.