My website goal is to a have a clean slideshow that can click to a gallery. Navigation of the slideshow would be nice.

I also, would like to easily be able to load a different slideshow into the same slideshow container and page with a click choice on the navbar.



Is there a fairly easy way to list gallery urls as variable names, and then have code that declares a new value for the main url variable in the slideshow script, via navbar click, that loads a new gallery in the slideshow?


Example:

>> var gallery;

In slideshow script>> galleryURL: "gallery"

Then somewhere else, changed by wedding navbar click >> var gallery = "weddings" ; another navbar buttonc causes >> var gallery ="seniors", etc. But, no website page change. Of course, an initial gallery would need to load by default.

Defined, elsewhere:

weddings = "url gallery address 01"
seniors = "url gallery address 02"

etc.

This would allow a single copy of the slideshow script and easily have choices of several gallery options to load in and run.

Please excuse me if I am not communicating this clearly, as I am not a web programmer, but I am trying to learn.


= tommy

First off, fantastic job to the programmer!!!
Does this wonderful slideshow offer filmstrip thumbnails? It works great, but I'd really like thumbnails and to be able to use control arrows, play button, and pause button (sleek & slender ones, not horsey big ones like the regular SmugMug slideshow). Sorry if this is a repeat question. I started going through responses, but this is popular feature, so hard to sort through all the data.
http://www.windstonegraphics.smugmug...Site/RB-Sports

Originally Posted by Common First off, fantastic job to the programmer!!! Does this wonderful slideshow offer filmstrip thumbnails? It works great, but I'd really like thumbnails and to be able to use control arrows, play button, and pause button (sleek & slender ones, not horsey big ones like the regular SmugMug slideshow). Sorry if this is a repeat question. I started going through responses, but this is popular feature, so hard to sort through all the data. http://www.windstonegraphics.smugmug...Site/RB-Sports

This slideshow does not offer filmstrip thumbnails. It does do keyboard navigation (left, right, space to start/stop) automatically. You can add your own buttons for start/stop, next/back if you want by adding your own HTML for the buttons and setting a configuration parameter to tell the slideshow about your buttons. There is a discussion about adding custom navigation buttons here in this thread and there's documentation on it on pages 26-27 of the slideshow reference.

Originally Posted by photomy My website goal is to a have a clean slideshow that can click to a gallery. Navigation of the slideshow would be nice. I also, would like to easily be able to load a different slideshow into the same slideshow container and page with a click choice on the navbar. Is there a fairly easy way to list gallery urls as variable names, and then have code that declares a new value for the main url variable in the slideshow script, via navbar click, that loads a new gallery in the slideshow? Example: >> var gallery; In slideshow script>> galleryURL: "gallery" Then somewhere else, changed by wedding navbar click >> var gallery = "weddings" ; another navbar buttonc causes >> var gallery ="seniors", etc. But, no website page change. Of course, an initial gallery would need to load by default. Defined, elsewhere: weddings = "url gallery address 01" seniors = "url gallery address 02" etc. This would allow a single copy of the slideshow script and easily have choices of several gallery options to load in and run. Please excuse me if I am not communicating this clearly, as I am not a web programmer, but I am trying to learn. = tommy

There is no easy way to tell the slideshow to change galleries. Solving this issue would involve some custom javascript programming that would remove the current slideshow and create a new one that was configured for a different gallery.

Originally Posted by photomy I gave up on trying to fix the "NO GALLERIES FOUND" warning that showed up on category page. I did not want to waste more time, although I am sure someone would be able to fix it, but no one responded with a solution. So, I changed the slideshow to run directly in a gallery, and then clicked directly to the gallery. BUT, there is a lot more changes/hides to a gallery page to make it work nice. This is why I wanted to try the category page first, which is what is mentioned in JFRIEND pdf manual for the slideshow, but no detail was mentioned for someone stupid like me. My goal is just to have a clean, slideshow-only look that clicks to a gallery. I have a lot of code "crap" that I need to clean up from me doing a lot of trial and error and trying other suggestions here and there. But it seems to work OK. Right now, the Seniors gallery that launches to the slideshow likes pretty good, however, for some reason there is a little extra space at the bottom causing a verticle scroll bar, BUT ONLY WITH CHROME. This seems a little strange to me. Maybe someone has an idea about this space at the bottom just on Chrome? = tommy

Thank you very much for your feedback Tommy.
I'm sorry to learn that you gave up receiving no answer to your questions.
Good luck for your future site improvements, Serge.

Originally Posted by jfriend There is no easy way to tell the slideshow to change galleries. Solving this issue would involve some custom javascript programming that would remove the current slideshow and create a new one that was configured for a different gallery.

I see. This is a little confusing to me. I thought that the photos that are fed into slideshow, say the slideshow going into the homepage biobox area, could come from any photo gallery and it did not really matter.

Of course I am assuming that the basic stretchy mode is used and not any custom fixed sizes, etc. I was not aware that the photo gallery had to some how match the configuration of the slideshow if basic stretchy mode is being used.

Thanks for a great slideshow program and all of the support.

= tommy

Originally Posted by photomy I see. This is a little confusing to me. I thought that the photos that are fed into slideshow, say the slideshow going into the homepage biobox area, could come from any photo gallery and it did not really matter. Of course I am assuming that the basic stretchy mode is used and not any custom fixed sizes, etc. I was not aware that the photo gallery had to some how match the configuration of the slideshow if basic stretchy mode is being used. Thanks for a great slideshow program and all of the support. = tommy

I think you misunderstood what I said. You can use any gallery you want for the slideshow. There is no requirement that anything match.

What I thought you were asking was how to switch the gallery that the slideshow was using live while the slideshow is active from one gallery to another. That is not a feature that this slideshow currently supports. If you want to randomly select a gallery from a list of galleries before the slideshow starts, that can be done with a few lines of javascript. But, once the slideshow has started, it doesn't support changing the gallery.

Originally Posted by jfriend The Fastline slideshow comes with instructions to do what you're asking for.

Above is in response twice in this thread about wanting full screen/transparent header.

Do those instructions over there work with your slideshow? Or do we need to change to that slideshow to do that?

Originally Posted by 56Kruiser Above is in response twice in this thread about wanting full screen/transparent header. Do those instructions over there work with your slideshow? Or do we need to change to that slideshow to do that?

There are no instructions that I'm aware of to do a full screen transparent header with my slideshow. That would have to be figured out anew. I'm sure some of those other instructions might be applicable, but honestly I'm not familiar with them. If you're looking for help with that and you don't want to use the Fastline slideshow, then I'd suggest you post a new thread in the customizing forum and ask for help with a transparent header that would work with the slideshow you have.

Originally Posted by jfriend The Fastline slideshow comes with instructions to do what you're asking for.

Originally Posted by jfriend There are no instructions that I'm aware of to do a full screen transparent header with my slideshow. That would have to be figured out anew. I'm sure some of those other instructions might be applicable, but honestly I'm not familiar with them. If you're looking for help with that and you don't want to use the Fastline slideshow, then I'd suggest you post a new thread in the customizing forum and ask for help with a transparent header that would work with the slideshow you have.

Thank you sir. I do prefer to keep your slideshow. I'll post the new thread.

Originally Posted by jfriend I think you misunderstood what I said. You can use any gallery you want for the slideshow. There is no requirement that anything match. What I thought you were asking was how to switch the gallery that the slideshow was using live while the slideshow is active from one gallery to another. That is not a feature that this slideshow currently supports. If you want to randomly select a gallery from a list of galleries before the slideshow starts, that can be done with a few lines of javascript. But, once the slideshow has started, it doesn't support changing the gallery.

I see John. I guess I was thinking that the navbar click could be programmed to stop the slideshow, load a new gallery location, then restart. Just a crazy notion from a non-programmer. It is fun to learn as I go along.

= tommy

Brilliant work John - this slideshow is so cool - reading down through and setting the parameters, I'm thinking "this guy's thought of everything!" Other tips have been excellent as well.

Originally Posted by Common First off, fantastic job to the programmer!!! Does this wonderful slideshow offer filmstrip thumbnails? It works great, but I'd really like thumbnails and to be able to use control arrows, play button, and pause button (sleek & slender ones, not horsey big ones like the regular SmugMug slideshow). Sorry if this is a repeat question. I started going through responses, but this is popular feature, so hard to sort through all the data. http://www.windstonegraphics.smugmug...Site/RB-Sports

Thanks for more feedback. I got my 4 custom buttons and arrows to work based on your suggestion. Any way to have a second set of forward and back buttons? On the below gallery, I assigned the button parameters to the side arrows and play and pause button, but I'd also like the blank buttons to also move the slides forward or backwards. Is this possible oh brilliant one?
http://www.windstonegraphics.smugmug...ite/RB-Wedding

Originally Posted by Common Thanks for more feedback. I got my 4 custom buttons and arrows to work based on your suggestion. Any way to have a second set of forward and back buttons? On the below gallery, I assigned the button parameters to the side arrows and play and pause button, but I'd also like the blank buttons to also move the slides forward or backwards. Is this possible oh brilliant one? www.windstonegraphics.smugmug.com/RBSite/RB-Wedding

One thing I noticed, if scrolled down viewing your show and click any button the page jumps to the top.
I thought this was taken care of some time ago.

Originally Posted by Allen One thing I noticed, if scrolled down viewing your show and click any button the page jumps to the top. I thought this was taken care of some time ago.

I'm new to SmugMug and dgrin, Oct., 2011. Do you know where the link is for instructions to that fix?

I would like to come back to your post # 2068.

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If you want to randomly select a gallery from a list of galleries before the slideshow starts, that can be done with a few lines of javascript. But, once the slideshow has started, it doesn't support changing the gallery.

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That is what I´m looking for. I'm just rebuilding my site and came across the first version
(see my post here http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?...80#post1698280 ) but decided then to try the latest beta version which
works perfect. Great job. Anyway - my programming skills are not better now so I'm now looking for a solution for this version.

Due to few reasons I would prefer that every day there is another slide show (as explained in my old post see above). But it would be ok for me,
if this could be done instead of a random basis (# of galleries should be perhaps not limited)

If you think that this problem (for me) could be solved with only few lines of code perhaps you can create these ?
Your assistance would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

Rolf

Originally Posted by Common I'm new to SmugMug and dgrin, Oct., 2011. Do you know where the link is for instructions to that fix?

This was noticed when the show first came out and jfriend fixed it. Don't know why it's still happening.

I've entered the codes as described in the tutorial and have put in a link to a Gallery as outlined in the tutorial. One image from that gallery comes up and then transitions to the same image once more and then nothing else happens. I'm wondering if someone knows where the problem might be.
Thanks.

www.nigelrobertsphotography.com

Originally Posted by goldeneye99 I've entered the codes as described in the tutorial and have put in a link to a Gallery as outlined in the tutorial. One image from that gallery comes up and then transitions to the same image once more and then nothing else happens. I'm wondering if someone knows where the problem might be. Thanks. www.nigelrobertsphotography.com

Your images are not large enough. Smugmug has a bug with custom size generation (used by the slideshow) that will not show anything if a custom size is requested that is larger than the largest pre-made size you have. For 3 of the 4 images in that gallery, the largest size available is "L" (800px).

You can see how this affects the slideshow by making your browser window really small and then refresh your homepage (the slideshow will work at small sizes). This is a really unfortunate Smugmug bug that has been busted for several weeks now and did not use to be this way.

Your workaround is to upload much larger images to your slideshow gallery.

Originally Posted by jfriend Your images are not large enough. Smugmug has a bug with custom size generation (used by the slideshow) that will not show anything if a custom size is requested that is larger than the largest pre-made size you have. For 3 of the 4 images in that gallery, the largest size available is "L" (800px). You can see how this affects the slideshow by making your browser window really small and then refresh your homepage (the slideshow will work at small sizes). This is a really unfortunate Smugmug bug that has been busted for several weeks now and did not use to be this way. Your workaround is to upload much larger images to your slideshow gallery.

Thanks John. I didn't have to upload new files, I just changed my gallery setting to let a larger image be displayed and now it's working! :)