Incorporate slide show

[DMCDigital]

Hello All,

I am in the process of switching all my work over to FPP 2.2, My previous viewer was a home built HTML with immervision pureplayer pro java see here

http://www.dmcdigitalmedia.com/hostvt/18book/index.htm

I am trying to incorporate the slideshow built in Lightroom into my new FPP powered offering. I would like to use cheathamlane's drop down plug in to call up the slideshow but can only get it to call .mov files...sorry if this is a noob question...I have honestly tried for hours to make this work in many different ways but no luck.....any help is greatly appreciated

Regards!

Dennis

[cheathamlane]

Hey Dennis:

Hmm... Is the slideshow from LightRoom a SWF?

If so, I'd probably just add your slideshow as a spot in your FPP xml. Set the spot's "linked" parameter to the name of the panorama it goes with. Something like linked="path/to/my/movie" (where "path/to/my/movie" is the same as the path you put in the dropdown plugin xml parameter).

What this does is make it so that the spot only shows up for that particular panorama. If you have multiple slideshows/panoramas, just lather, rinse, repeat for each slideshow.

[DMCDigital]

Actually Lightroom creates a slide show with several folders and a"index.html"

My old viewer used html and frames so I just linked to the index.html file...there is a gallery.swf file and I will try the method you described....I'm goin in !"

[zleifr]

There are a number of ways to put your gallery together, if you have a .swf that does everything you want, all in one nice bundle, patrick's method is the way to go. You can also write up your own gallery with the images in hotspots just using the xml. Or you can write you own flash gallery, or get someone to write it for you, if the swf you have doesn't do the trick.

[DMCDigital]

Well I decided the slide show needs to be available from all panos so I simply added the spot to the FPP xml like so:

<spot id="left" alt="View Slideshow" static="1" salign="TC" staticX="60" staticY="20" url="images/slideshow.png" blockMouse="1"

onClick="openUrl(slideshow/index.html,_self)"

then the browsers back button returns you to the VR'S. I would like be able to access the slide show from the dropdown instead but cant seem to figure it out..

[cheathamlane]

Well, your way is one way to do it. It sounds like the slideshows from LR need the HTML to inform them. I haven't ever looked at the HTML plumbing for one of those.

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The DropDown Menu Plugin is only meant to load other panoramas into the FPP presentation. In the future, it might be scripted to handle other things -- feel free to make a "wishlist" post for the DD Menu Plugin over at it's thread. :)

[DMCDigital]

Hi Patrick,

I think it might ...it is way over my head code wise..the Html doc generated by lightroom has a ton of code related to flash variables etc. Really dont know what I am looking at...yet :p . I am trying to learn flash coding ..thanks for your help along with all others who have posted


Regards,

Dennis