Gallery slideshow view

wolfier

For the first time I have set slideshow as the default view of one of my galleries. It's a nice feature and lets viewer choose to go forward and backward and jump among pictures when they put their mouse pointer over the slideshow. Observation: it seems that when I move my mouse pointer away from the slideshow, it takes quite a while for the photo navigation bar to hide itself - sometimes it's so slow that the slide has already advanced to the next one. The forward/backward/pause buttons disappears quickly enough. The question is then - is there a way to control the auto-hide delay of the photo navigation bar? For me, the optimal is to auto-hide immediately after the mouse pointer moves outside of the slide show. Thanks!

WinsomeWorks

And then if only the dang thing would work with the arrow keys. That is just so silly. Just seems so stone-age that we have to go on for yrs using the mouse for this when practically every other slideshow on the web knows how to understand the arrow keys.

Andy

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

And then if only the dang thing would work with the arrow keys. That is just so silly. Just seems so stone-age that we have to go on for yrs using the mouse for this when practically every other slideshow on the web knows how to understand the arrow keys.

it's a limitation of flash, anna lisa...

jfriend

Andy wrote: »

it's a limitation of flash, anna lisa...

Andy, this is simply not true. It was an issue with some old versions of flash, but flash is certainly able to handle keystrokes. My kids play flash games all the time that use the keyboard extensively.

Andy

jfriend wrote: »

Andy, this is simply not true. It was an issue with some old versions of flash, but flash is certainly able to handle keystrokes. My kids play flash games all the time that use the keyboard extensively.

Cool, I'll check with Shizam on this!

jfriend

Andy wrote: »

Cool, I'll check with Shizam on this!

Same discussion 17 months ago here.

wolfier

Please don't hijack the thread...
My original issue is, when the mouse is moved away from the slide show, the thumbnails bar does not disappear quickly enough to show the slide. I searched and it seems I'm the first one reporting it. Is there a way to make the thumbnail auto-hide immediately when the mouse move away? I don't believe a delay more than half a second is warranted - when a viewer moves the mouse away the intention is to view the full photo, yet the thumbnail bar obstructs the view often until the slideshow flips to the next photo.

jfriend

wolfier wrote: »

My original issue is, when the mouse is moved away from the slide show, the thumbnails bar does not disappear quickly enough to show the slide. I searched and it seems I'm the first one reporting it. Is there a way to make the thumbnail auto-hide immediately when the mouse move away? I don't believe a delay more than half a second is warranted - when a viewer moves the mouse away the intention is to view the full photo, yet the thumbnail bar obstructs the view often until the slideshow flips to the next photo.

There is no way to customize that behavior.

wolfier

jfriend wrote: »

There is no way to customize that behavior.

Thanks, John.

If so, is this a proper channel to create an item in the wish list, or is there another forum I should be posting in, if my intention is to somehow maximise the chance that this change will be made?

jfriend

wolfier wrote: »

Thanks, John.

If so, is this a proper channel to create an item in the wish list, or is there another forum I should be posting in, if my intention is to somehow maximise the chance that this change will be made?

Smugmug asks that feature requests be placed and tracked here: http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug.

wolfier

Thanks.

WinsomeWorks

Andy wrote: »

Cool, I'll check with Shizam on this!

Any word from Shizam on this old discussion? It would sure be nice to get this Flash capability stuff updated if we could. Why live in the old dark ages of flash if we don't even need to?? Here again is the link to the old discussion, within which is a link to the Adobe article (which is by now very old news) http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1028289#post1028289 Oh, and by "this old discussion", I'm talking about the use of arrow keys to go forward & back in a Flash slideshow.