picture gallery as a slide show

[Guest]

I am trying to insert a slide show picture gallery that contains 39 photos
into a frame on one of my web pages that uses a template. I can get all the
other galleries to work but this one. It says it's creating thimbnails, but
never gets past that...it won't let you cancel, you have to exit out of the
window.

What am I dong wrong?

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

perhaps the 39 photos is too much in that situation. i.e. your version and
condition of FrontPage, the computer and capacity it's running on, etc.

are your other working photo galleries slide shows, and if so do any of them
have more than 39 images?


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[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

its the invisible wall.

perhaps the 39 photos is too much in that situation. i.e. your version and
condition of FrontPage, the computer and capacity it's running on, etc.

are your other working photo galleries slide shows, and if so do any of them
have more than 39 images?


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[Trevor L.]

I have a slideshow of 48 images (to date) and it doesn't break any bank or
run into any walls

However, it is a long way removed from the original FP-generated code where
it started.

It presents a page of thumbnails, any one of which, when clicked, displays a
larger picture on a new page, but there are also buttons for an automatic
slide show (set to 8 second intervals). Inside this, one can also stop, go
to first, go to last, go to next, go to previous, or go to any numbered
picture.

It has drawn on code from many sources and I am still developing it as I get
more ideas, many from the experts on this Newsgroup for which I am grateful

Visit my website if you wish to see it. (Click on Picture Album.)
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[Dave Gilbertson]

How did you make the slide show? I use the galleries within FP 2002 but
there is not the option to do an actual slide show with each picture in full
size like you have. Can you help me out? I don't do HTML really, I just do
the WYSIWYG that is in FP 2002.

 

[Trevor L.]

Dave,

I am afraid it takes fair bit of HTML, and I have just recently made a
change (hopefully to improve the loading time)

What I hope to be able to do is to put together all the code in discrete
modules and post a list of them here for persons to retrieve from the Web.
Then all you have to do is copy them and then enter a list of your slide
names and captions in a specific file - it is actually named slidelist.js

There are some other changes however. Because one cant fit 48 pictures
across one page, I have split them up into rows of 6 or 7. Some parameters
have to be altered to suit this split up.

I'll try and remove these complications and get back to this newsgroup with
more info., probably in about 16-18 hours. I am on Australian Eastern
Daylight Time, so it's dinner time here

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[Trevor L.]

Dave,

I have put together a test which works

On my website, there are these HTML files
slidetest.html
slideshowauto.html

as well as these Javascript files
slideshow.js
slidelist.js

All files are in http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/code.zip, so just download
this and select these files you need

My images are all in http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/images/ directory so you
can set these up yourself in your images/ directory. There is also a file
needed in images/ named wait.gif which you can download from my site.
Otherwise, create a gif file yourself with this name - contents not
important.

The changes needed are
slidetest.js
----------
This contains a line
onclick="spawnJimcoPopup
('slideshowauto.html?firstslide=1&lastslide=15','',.............
The numbers after the = signs are the first and last slide you want the
slideshow to display. E.G. if you have 30 and want all of them, set these to
1and 30.

slidelist.js
---------
This contains a list of file names in the array Pictures and their relevant
captions in the array Captions. You need to overtype these with the names of
your files in the /images directory (deleting unneeded ones or adding more)

All editing of these can be made in code view of FrontPage (or even in
Notepad)

But be careful not to upload slideshowauto.html via FP. FP will add a height
and width parameter which is not required and causes the images to display
incorrectly. It is better to upload this file (only) via an FTP program.
Sometime I will try to find a way to correct this.

The file to execute of course is slidetest.html (you can even try it on my
site.)

BTW,
I have had feedback that I am attempting to do too much and overloading my
pages. So, while I am still happy about my code at the moment, others may
not be.

I am continuing to evolve this slideshow. There are many experts who have
done similar things, often better. I am willing to learn from these or
anyone who has ideas.
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[Trevor L.]

Dave,

If you are still interested, I have put up a new version of slidetest.html
and slideshowauto.html

You no longer need
slideshow.js or
images/wait.gif

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