[Pro] Showcase Captions

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Hi Everyone,

I’m making a basic slideshow with Showcase. In Showcase, all of my images have a caption. Basically, it is the title for each piece of artwork. However, I can’t get the caption to show up in my freeway document. I’ve tried messing with the settings in the action menu, and “Caption” is ticked to “on” in the large image > general section. Any ideas what I’m missing?

Also, is there any way to make the navigation buttons (play, pause, etc) be just under the image instead of on top if it?

Thanks!

Doty

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I dont see any code in your page for captions

As for the controls positioning - have a look at http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/105787#m_105860

David

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David,

Not sure what to make of this. All the images have captions in the Showcase App. For some reason they must not be exporting correctly. User error, I’m sure!

Doty

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In the Showcase app under the Show Captions Checkbox there is a size slider - is it at maximum?

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Hi David,

It wasn’t — it was set at 40px. That seemed plenty large so I left it. But, I did move it to maximum and it changed to 100px. Still no difference in the showcase output, however.

Seems like such a simple thing…

Doty

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Here is something to try.

Find your showcase gallery file in the Finder ie lighthouse.fwgallery

Right click on the file and choose Show Package Contents - in there will be 2 folders and a json file.

Select the json and hit the spacebar - this will give you a QuickView of the contents of that file.

There will be entries for ‘filename’ ‘captions’ etc. Is the expected text in the ‘captions’ section?

D

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David,

When I click the spacebar on the .json file all that happens is the icon pops up, similar to if you use the spacebar on a folder. It’s not allowing me to see the contents of the .json file itself.

I’m on snow leopard. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Doty

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QuickView relies on there being an application devoted to the file-type in question to show anything more than an icon of the file. Dave must have an editor on his Mac that has registered the .json file-type as being readable. Do you have BBEdit or TextWrangler on your Mac? You might want to drag the .json file onto one of those applications and just open it. (Don’t edit it, just try to blast through the text looking for recognizable words among the colons and curly-braces.)

Walter

On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Doty wrote:

David,

When I click the spacebar on the .json file all that happens is the icon pops up, similar to if you use the spacebar on a folder. It’s not allowing me to see the contents of the .json file itself.

I’m on snow leopard. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Doty

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Ditto to what Walter said - and yes I am using Snow too.

TextEdit will open it if you dont have another text editor.

D

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Okay, got the .json file open. At the very top it says “showCaptions” : “0”, I’m guessing it shouldn’t say that. I’ve cut and paste just the top part of the file to show you what’s happening. I promise “show captions” is checked in the inspector window.

{

"visualisation" : "gallery",
"settings" : {
	"xSpacing" : "20",
	"cellSize" : "100",
	"mainCellSize" : "500",
	"showCaptions" : "0",
	"captionSize" : "40",
},
"gallerySettings" : {
	"layoutType" : "0",
	"columns" : "5"
},
"slideshowSettings" : {
	"thumbnailPosition" : "0"
},
"thumbFilenames" : [
	{
		"filename" : "01 Homepage Art_thumb.png",
		"width" : "98",
		"height" : "99"
	},
	{
		"filename" : "02 Northwoods_thumb.png",
		"width" : "98",
		"height" : "100"

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OK - for comparison here is one of mine

{
	"visualisation" : "slideshow",
	"settings" : {
		"xSpacing" : "20",
		"cellSize" : "232",
		"mainCellSize" : "385",
		"showCaptions" : "1",
		"captionSize" : "100",
	},
	"gallerySettings" : {
		"layoutType" : "0",
		"columns" : "5"
	},
	"slideshowSettings" : {
		"thumbnailPosition" : "0"
	},
	"thumbFilenames" : [
		{
			"filename" : "image7_thumb.png",
			"caption" : "My caption in here.",
			"width" : "232",
			"height" : "129"
		},
		{
			"filename" : "image8_thumb.png",
			"caption" : "My caption in here.",
			"width" : "232",
			"height" : "129"
		},

So it might be an idea for you to remove the showcase action and reapply it.

Remove all instances of the action. Publish your site (dont need to upload) reapply the action and test.

D

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Probably not germane, but my captions were invisible when the text was the same color as the background… (smile)

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David,

I can’t explain why, but reapplying the action did the trick!

Now, I have a different question (of course). Is there any way the row of thumbnails can advance with the slides? I have 6 slides, but only 4 thumbnails are visible. When it gets to slide 5 the thumbnails don’t advance with the rest of the slideshow.

Is this a limitation of ShowCase, or am I missing a setting somewhere?

Thanks again!

Doty

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No the thumbs only move when the prev/next arrows are clicked.

In the Showcase action palette in the Layout section you can change Columns to 6 to match the # of your thumbs so they all display (if your Showcase container is wide enough)

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Hi all

I have a showcase caption question.
I would like the thumb to have one caption( i.e. the number) and the larger image to have the title of image. Is this at all possible
thx
C

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