[Pro] Showcase Flashing between pics

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Really happy with the new showcase program, so easy for codephobes! However there are some style issues I would like to change if it’s possible. My slideshow seems to flash over to the the next pic and micro-momentarily reveals the padding beneath. It’s kind of abrupt and I’d prefer that the pics fade into each other like scriptaculous slideshows, is that possible?

Also I’d love to use my own nex/previous arrow, is there a way to substitute my own for the one provided by the program?

Appreciate any enlightenment on this…thanks in advance.

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I’d love to use my own nex/previous arrow, is there a way to substitute my own for the one provided by the program?

Showcase uses a graphic ‘controls.png’ and presumably the CSS sprite method to display it in the correct place.

The ‘controls.png’ file exists within the Showcase action itself so yes it could be changed for your own - but every time that the action was updated that graphic would be replaced by the standard one.

You may also be able to use the extended menu to add your own CSS to the showcase container to point to your own graphic

.fwShowcase_controls a {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 120;
    bottom: 0px;
    width: 28px;
    height: 26px;
    background: url(Resources/controls.png) no-repeat;
}

David

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Dave, Thanks for taking the time to reply but you are talking wayyyy over my head! Hopefully some other code savvy person will be able to use this info. Gratefully, Louise

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This page uses my own controls.png graphic which I replaced within the action bundle.

http://www.deltadesign.co/odds/slideshow.html

Find your FW app in your applications folder. Right click and Show Package Contents

Contents>SharedSupport>Actions>Fast>Showcase.fwactionb

Right click and Show Package Contents of Showcase.fwactionb

Contents>Resources>Actions>Resources>controls.png

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And I see that it doesn’t work properly on Internet Explorer 8, I was about to start a new thread on how Showcase gets screwed up on IE.

This is just another example.

Sorry I didn’t mean to intrude, it seems to me that FW only caters to Safari and Firefox, even though IE is most widely used.

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Measuring browser prevalence is obviously fraught, but even so it’s probably no longer true that “IE is most widely used.”

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