Can you Make a Slideshow using Swish?

[britishteamgreen]

Hi can anyone tell me if you can make a slideshow using swish?

I am currently trying to make a slideshow for my website.

What i want to do is to make a picture display in the same frame has the other picture..

Also i want a button of somekind to make it to automatically display all the pictures one after the other.


Is all this possible ? am i asking for too much in Swish?


Do anyone know where i can download some examples of this, to see how it is done.


Thanks...


Merrry Christmas..... And a happy New Year...


Colin Talbot

email: colin_talbot@hotmail.com

[wcoleman]

This is all possible (and easy to do) in Swish. Use the search function (advanced search) and search for slide show in the Swish Help Forum and I suspect that you will find many different approaches. If I have time in the next hour or so I will throw a quickie together, but there are many already out there.

<edit> Just found one I had done a month or so ago for some students - http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/mmma.html and http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/mmma.swi - just one approach. You might also want to look at JerryT's work on VCR controls in Swish. </edit>

Cheers,

Flick
[Edited by wcoleman on 12-24-2001 at 08:55 AM]

[jofta]

Here is an example using a variation of Rogers effect detailed in this thread.
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=207132


My example uses the transform effect from Rogers link to show thumbnails using roll oover however you could tailor it to a variety of different "show" methods.

Horizontal, verticle etc.

My example is at
http://www.larrikinism.com/apicti.html


Jofta

[britishteamgreen]

Thanks Guys for answers..


I have made one of my own,however im stuck on how to make some kind of button to make the hole slideshow show all the images one after the other?


I have made a slideshow from where you click on a arrow to go to the next scene.

Can anyone tell me how to put a Tick button or something like it to show the whole slideshow..

Thanks


Colin Talbot

[bobmac]

Originally posted by wcoleman
[B]This is all possible (and easy to do) in Swish. Use the search function (advanced search) and search for slide show in the Swish Help Forum and I suspect that you will find many different approaches

Ahhhh, the good ol' "easy to do"--that is, if you are familiar with the tool and the concepts. So please forgive this utterly naive question...

I am trying to publish some PowerPoint tutorials using Swish. The essence is a screen shot where, with each click of the mouse, something else will appear. (Right now I have three elements.) After they are all on the screen, the last click should fade out the screenshot and a makeover of the screen will appear.

Sound's simple, but I have spent hours (reading help, doing tutorials, reading posts here) trying to get the actions to stop and go at the right times (on the click event--I'll settle for the Press event) but I cannot seem to get the generalization necessary.

I have posted the file at http://www.guiguy.org/projects/proofread.zip in case anyone can look at it and help me. This is my first foray into anything with a timeline and I feel like I'm in pre-school.

TIA...

[wcoleman]

Try downloading http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/proofread2.swi and see if that does more of what you want. You need to have some stop frames in the main timeline - telling a button to play and then stop doesn't work. In addition, you were using the same button (actually the whole movie) and assigning multiple goto actions to it. That will only work if you tell it to go to the next frame or the previous frame, but you can't assign it to go to multiple frame numbers.

I am not sure what the makeover layer is supposed to do, so I didn't do anything with it. My confusion arises because you fade out and then fade in what you are calling the original, and this lies on top of the makeover in the layer stack so the makeover is never seen. I think you might want to just fade out the original and then place the makeover at the end of the movie, but could be wrong.

Hope this helps,

Flick


[Edited by wcoleman on 12-27-2001 at 10:41 PM]

[bobmac]

Originally posted by wcoleman
[B]Try downloading http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/proofread2.swi and see if that does more of what you want. You need to have some stop frames in the main timeline - telling a button to play and then stop doesn't work. In addition, you were using the same button (actually the whole movie) and assigning multiple goto actions to it. That will only work if you tell it to go to the next frame or the previous frame, but you can't assign it to go to multiple frame numbers.

I am not sure what the makeover layer is supposed to do, so I didn't do anything with it. My confusion arises because you fade out and then fade in what you are calling the original, and this lies on top of the makeover in the layer stack so the makeover is never seen. I think you might want to just fade out the original and then place the makeover at the end of the movie, but could be wrong.

First, you're a genius--not for making the program work, but for understanding exactly what I was trying to do. ;^)

With your input and seeing what needed to be done, I made the thing work. Now, after the last of the three callouts is made, the original dialog is shown without the callouts and the next click shows the makeover. The next click starts it all over again. (I'll probably add text and eventually take the whole thing too far...)

Would you do me one last favor. In looking at the file again, I noticed that there are actions assigned to damn near every object in the file--all 6 of them. What I don't know--and I need to know so I can properly generalize from here--is what actiona are actually necessary to make the thing work the way I want it to. Could you delete what is not necessary? Perhaps the button is not needed at all. It was my guess. I definitely believe that less is more.

(I have re-posted your corrected file with my corrections at at http://www.guiguy.org/projects/proofread2a.zip)

And, BTW, do you know of any good books, sites, tutorials that would apply to the kind of thing I am doing? I'm not into animation, fancy schmancy stuff--just basically converting lots of PPT presentation material to the web. (http://www.guiguy.com/classes/classes.htm)

BTW2, I went to Brandeis back in the early 60's--right about the same time you were at Eckerd--so I'm familiar with your current stomping grounds...but so much has changed since then.

BTW3, I love what you have done with your chemistry site. The mouseovers with voice are a fantastic addition to the accessibility of the site. And, I try not to be part of the precipitate if I can avoid it... ;^)

Again, many thanks...

[mtavares]

I don't know if the swi file i just finished will actually help but below is a description.

The file has multiple scenes. The first scene is a Preloader. If will flash loading until the whole movie is loaded. Then it will progress to the first photo. The file and the way it works is fairly straight forward and easy to follow.

The SWI File can be found at http://www.mtavares.org/swi/canberra_floriade.swi

Please feel free to edit and disect the file as needed.

All i ask for is for anyone that uses it to let me know if it was helpful.

Cheers