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Hi All,
Can someone please help me out here without making any assumptions that I know where to upload anything, as I dont
I've used Simple-Viwer successfully before but I just wanted an image rotator so I bought this but it's been a total waste of time and money so far
Wonder if I can get a refund...
The problems are mainly in FTP: where to create which folder and upload what
The bit that says Prepare folder structure in the Manual is not clear - are those sub folders or different??
when I customize the gallery on the demo page and download the XML where do I go from there
Please send me somthing like - Under your HTML/Web, upload the files, create an album folder, upload the images here etc
And also how can I remove the title strap completely at the bottom of the slideshow?
Thanks for your time
S
Basic instructions to get the slideshow on your site. (assuming you use the existing file structure from the download package)
1. Unzip the files to a location on your computer.
2. Open the "html" folder.
3. To customize the slideshow, edit the monoslideshow.xml file with some type of editor. (notepad, notepad++, etc.)
4. In the "html" folder is an "album" folder. There are two folders inside of it.
"images" for full scale images
and
"thumbnails" if you wish to use them, downsized images. Inside these folders are where the stock photos are kept. Your images should be put here also. If you wish, remove the stock photos.
You must put your images in these folders and reference their names in the monoslideshow.xml.
5.Use an FTP program and transfer all files in the "html" folder into the folder of your choice on your server.
6.To view the slideshow go to (as an example) www.your-domain.com/your-folder
Get your slideshow working properly with the above info and then start using the demo for customization after you know that the player does work on your site.
To me, the demo is only good if you recognize that you must replace things in the demo XML that were part of the demo slideshow, i.e. often I notice that people have startWithAlbum="insects" This is pretty specific to the demo as not many people would use insects as an album name.
Good luck,
Jarredja
Hi Jarredja,
Thanks for your message, I think I'm getting somewhere but not quite there yet :(
Which code do I use to reference the names of the images in the XML editor, as I can't see them at the moment but I can see that the slideshow is set up
This is what I have at the moment and my images are not showing in the slideshow, I'm just getting the 'i' image
Please check if you can spot any errors?
Thanks
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<album>
<configuration>
<caption displayMode="never" >
<title type="none" />
<description type="none" />
<shadow/>
<transition/>
</caption>
<navigation>
<albums>
<caption type="none" >
<title type="none" />
<description type="none" />
</caption>
<shadow/>
<transition>
<shadow/>
</transition>
</albums>
<items>
<shadow/>
<transition>
<shadow/>
</transition>
</items>
<shadow/>
<caption>
<title type="none" />
<description type="none" />
</caption>
</navigation>
<reflection/>
<controller showScrubBar="false" type="none" >
<scrubBar/>
<shadow/>
</controller>
<mark>
<shadow/>
</mark>
<progress type="none" >
<shadow/>
</progress>
<transition type="selfMelt" />
<shadow/>
<thumbnailNavigation>
<items>
<shadow/>
<transition>
<shadow/>
</transition>
</items>
<shadow/>
</thumbnailNavigation>
</configuration>
<contents>
<image source="sp photography 6.jpg" />
<image source="sp photography 010.jpg" />
<image source="sp photography 015.jpg" />
</contents>
</album>
At the top of your code
<album>
should have the item path to the images. This next line is directly from the sample xml. As a beginner, I would suggest you use the defined folders as I stated above until you feel brave (I.e. album/images to store all of the large images.)
<album thumbnail="album/albumThumbnail.jpg" itemPath="album/images" thumbnailPath="album/thumbnails">
I ran your code with the above change(renaming my own images to fit your xml) and there were errors relating to the descriptions, captions and titles regarding the "type" I have removed them in the code below.
The other thing I noticed is you put spaces in your filename. While it seems to work locally, I believe it to be a best practice to keep spaces out of the filenames. I would replace the spaces with - or _ or just get rid of it.
This code worked for me locally using Version 2.02
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<album thumbnail="album/albumThumbnail.jpg" itemPath="album/images" thumbnailPath="album/thumbnails">
<configuration>
<caption displayMode="never" >
<title />
<description />
<shadow/>
<transition/>
</caption>
<navigation>
<albums>
<caption >
<title />
<description />
</caption>
<shadow/>
<transition>
<shadow/>
</transition>
</albums>
<items>
<shadow/>
<transition>
<shadow/>
</transition>
</items>
<shadow/>
<caption>
<title />
<description />
</caption>
</navigation>
<reflection/>
<controller showScrubBar="false" type="none" >
<scrubBar/>
<shadow/>
</controller>
<mark>
<shadow/>
</mark>
<progress type="none" >
<shadow/>
</progress>
<transition type="selfMelt" />
<shadow/>
<thumbnailNavigation>
<items>
<shadow/>
<transition>
<shadow/>
</transition>
</items>
<shadow/>
</thumbnailNavigation>
</configuration>
<contents>
<image source="sp photography 6.jpg" />
<image source="sp photography 010.jpg" />
<image source="sp photography 015.jpg" />
</contents>
</album>
Hi there,
webservers do not support filenames with spaces. Additionally, you omitted the "itemPath" parameter.
Suggestion:
1) Rename your images and change the xml accordingly.
2) Change the 2nd line of your xml to something like
<album itemPath="path/to/your/images/relative/to/html/" >
in case your images are in a subfolder (which is usually the case).
Christoph
Thanks so much guys, I removed the spaces in file names and it's looking v good at the moment!
Sorry to come across as really thick again but just tried to embed the slideshow now but nothing is showing on the page
(I've embedded it inside a table)
This is my code, which I got from the manual:
<div id="flashContent">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF(
"monoslideshow.swf", "flashContent",
"480", "360", "9", false,
flashvars, params, attributes
);
</script>
Hi, you can check the sfwobject.js documentation here at Google Code. Follow the instructions step by step and it should work.
Alternatively, you can look at working pages like mine and copy/paste from there. Note there are two ways to call swfobject.js (a "dynamic" and a "static" way); in your post you are using the dynamic one, whereas my website uses the static one. As soon as you get one to work, there is no difference.
Christoph
Thanks Chris
I've been very unwell and in hospital hence no reply since. I'm back on form now and will sort this out this weekend
S
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