Slideshow

[rui_eduardo]

Hi Blanius
Thank you very much
Rui

[neederofhelp]

Originally posted by blanius
done. plus a few other tweeks.

Beautiful! That's what I had in mind. Now I know it's actually doing something!

110% A+

[blanius]

Was thinking now about going back and starting over from scratch.

Originally I was going to just use 4 slides and fade them up and down loading graphics as needed when they where hidden, but when I was stuggling to get ANYTHING to work I simplified the idea and just created a movie for each image. The volume of images may be the problem we're seeing with ghost images and what looks like a border (actually a 0 alpha image that is smaller on top of the visible one blocking the view)

We'll see if I feel up to fooling with it

[rui_eduardo]

Hi Blanius
Please take a look at this:
http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/slideshow/
and please let me know your comments about.
Thanks in advance.
Rui

[zoranvedek]

Bret,
I haven't looked at the source yet, but I tried twice to view the slide show, this last time I gave it 12 minutes loading time before giving up.

How many photos is it loading(what's the file size)? For broadband users it might be alright, but 12+ minutes to view a slide show is an excessive amount time(IMHO).

-J

[rui_eduardo]

Hi
Sorry, i go check the problem.
As i have adsl i can´t have the exact loading time.
Rui

[rui_eduardo]

Hi zoranvedek

I cleaned up temporary internet files and after i teste loading slidshow from net.
I got 10 seconds.

Total photos: 17
Total Kb: 200

But as i said, i have adsl / 512 Kbps.

Could someone teste for me again, please?...

Was a temporary server problem?...

I don't know...

I waiting your kind testes resultes.

Thanks Rui

[blanius]

It loads in about 10-15 secs for me.

There are some issues with it I see and I think I know where they come from.

rui_eduardo's slideshow looks fine.

I am going to rework the whole thing from scratch using just a few child movies and just pre-loading two images at a time. So long as the size of the images is under about 100k they should have plenty of time to load.

Or maybe not I'll have to think on it some more.

The main reason I went with loading ALL photos was it seemed the only way to be sure that an image was loaded and ready to be resized, which was the main concern and concept, resizing images(movies) so that the original size/format would not matter.

[rui_eduardo]

Hi Blanius
Thanks for your teste and reply.
I go change the concept of mine, too.
It's not good a slow connection must wait 20 seconds or more for total loading.
Now, i go try another concept.
This one have to show the first one as it is loaded and second just it is loaded and the same for remaining.
That i intend is, if in first 5 seconds you have 2 slides loaded, slideshow have only these two and show them, but passed 10 seconds if you have 6 slides, your slideshow show these 6 slides and go on.
It's very difficult explain when we do not write correct english.
I hope you can understand.
Bibi
Rui

[machomaus]

well basically you need to apply modified looping to check what has already loaded - sort of like as with flash4 preloaders techniques but with script.

[rui_eduardo]

Hi
Please kind check this new version:
http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/slideshow/slidejpg2.html
Is best then 1st version?...
http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/slideshow/
I'm waiting your kind testes and usual help.
Thanks in advance
Rui

[rui_eduardo]

Hi
Please go to:
http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/xml_teste.html
and please follow:
Menus/English/Photos/Sketches
and please give me your feedback about download time,
look, if is workable or not, etc., etc.
I thank you very much in advance.
Rui Paiva

[blanius]

Looks good. You might want to HIDE the slideshow when anything else is selected on the menu

[zoranvedek]

Bret,
I don't know if you've changed anything or not, but it loaded in under a minute just now. Thought you'd want to know.

-J

[rui_eduardo]

Hi blanius
Thanks a lot, i forgot it.
Rui

[blanius]

Originally posted by zoranvedek
Bret,
I don't know if you've changed anything or not, but it loaded in under a minute just now. Thought you'd want to know.

-J

Haven't changed a thing (I don't think I did anyway)

[rui_eduardo]

Hi Blanius
http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/xml_teste.html
Concerning my slideshow working as child movie, i have noted a great faill, any time we click it on menu, it creates new movies and photos are loaded again into that movies. If we click 5 times, this happen 5 times.
I go try solve this, puting slideshow flags on main movie.
I think with this, any time we click it on menu, main movie knows than photos are already loaded and order slideshow movement (changing), only.
I keep forum informed about.
Rui