ZOOM SLIDESHOW / BANNER ROTATOR

I have made some minor edits to this file, you can now turn off the buttons by passing a variable “showButtons = 0” via swfObject.

I have also setup a variable that turns off all the Text that shows over the images by passing “showText = 0” in the same manor.

if None of these variables are passed or set up, the default is to show all text and buttons.

I also edited it so that if the text is being shown, but you have nothing in the tags of the XML , then it just shows the image. The original file showed a Box with the word “Undefined” if you didn’t supply text between the tags or if you removed them all together.

Simple to edit, great code by the way.

hello SaafiDesign, first of all let me commend you on a great piece. i am having one problem though. once the slideshow reaches the last image it stops. i’d like to modify the file so that it loops from the last to the first, both when playing automatically and when using the next & previous buttons. so if the user is on the last image and they click the ‘next’ button the swf calls in the first image all over again. same if they’re viewing the first image and they click the ‘previous’ button it will load the last image. basically there’s a continuous loop of the images.

i would need the images to be looped whether it’s playing automatically, or if the user is control the slides with the next/prev buttons

where/what can i change to achieve this? thanks for your help.

@Onyx,

to pass the xml path via html, just add a url variable after your swf with the path to your xml file.

example: smbanner1.swf?xml_data=info1.xml

(replace “info1.xml” with the name of your xml file, including the path relative to the page where you’re embedding your swf)

you can use the same FLA to export however many swfs you need, just name them differently. and name your xml files differently if each swf is to display different images.

this is what i’ve done and have had no problems running multiple instances of this on the same page both with the same xml file and different ones. only the swf and xml files need to be uploaded to the server. the additional AS files inside the “com” folder are used when initially compiling your swf.

perhaps saafidesign can elaborate on his work and it’s capabilities, i’m just on here checking my comment for a reply and thought i’d lend a helping hand

Hey there dyzine, Thanks!! I love nice people!! Thank you for taking the time to help me with this. I read your directions over, it “sounds” like something I can understand. Will post back my results to confirm your directions are valid to the next user. Have a great day and good luck on your quest for answers.

Hello,

I like this file, however no doccumentation whatsoever.

My problem, I am running it through my main movie ( main.swf) and I presuma eI edit the path of the XML in the KI zoomslideshow.AS to mine, as I do the image in that XML , still I only get one big wgite box opening up, what am I doing wrong?

Marcus

I’m loving the crossfade effects and zoom in. I’m dying to buy this but have a few questions first if you don’t mind.

-Can the line of text be moved flush to the bottom?

-Will there be (or will you make one like this with) album or category support? Maybe a line of text menus at the top? If so I’d def. buy…please let me know!

Thanks!!

Saafi, good stuff here. ...

cache: xmlObject.load(xmlFile+”?cacheKiller=”+getTimer());

this does not seem to work, is there anything else we can do to prevent caching?

Cheers.