slideshow pro problems..;-(

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ive read a few other posts here and im about to go mad i think…anyway here go’s.

page almost done in fw pro 5.

site is
www.visionsanddesigns.com

now i have 5 albums all with thumbnails and locally they work and (if i may add) look great.

ive added all the “.xml” & “.swf” files to the “public_html” folder, where the website is, via ftp.

heres a tree of whats showing

public_html–index.html
artwork.html
resources(folder)
visions gallery(folder)

2 things to note

  1. resources contains all the right info and does publish. except my swf.file.

  2. visions gallery looks like this

visions gallery-gallery-
album1-lg(holding the large img’s)-tn(holding thumbnails).
album2-lg(holding the large img’s)-tn(holding thumbnails).

and so on for all the galleries

then in the visions gallery is the following

images.xml
slideshow.html
slideshow.swf

images1.xml
slideshow1.html
slideshow1.swf

and so on for the rest of the galleries.

i have double checked the xml paths in flash and are all present and correct, this is confirmed by working locally, via flash and in f/w pro5.

then i publish the site and upload but get an error saying swf not found, so i made a copy of it and put it in the folder it was looking for and hey presto it uploaded, but, will not show online.

i have little experience with coding etc and found it fun to work on the xml parts of the project, its just really annoying that i can see the final result but it wont go live.

i have scoured the forums here and ssp but to no avail,

but im sure its a quick fix thats staring at me

any suggestions would be great.

many thanks

terry

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The images.xml file needs to be in the root directory of the site so that would be your “public_html.” At least that’s where it’s looking for it. You can change this in SSP by going to the bottom of the component inspector and changing/adding directory options before the “images.xml.”

I’ll watch the thread till it works.

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I used slideshowpro and had issues with multiple slide shows on different pages. because of the number of Index, Images files ect.

in the end I used frames and pointed the frames to different folders with different slideshows in them.

If you do a search for topics in my name ‘Snapper’ it should throw up lots of helpful info

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Dan,

Could you rename the loader.swf file if you have several galleries residing on a site ie. loader1.swf, etc. So the root folder will have those instead of just the single loader file. Corresponding therefore to each gallery package generated.

My ignorance of not knowing how the loader.swf works/contains and how freeway and/or browsers handle it.

seoras

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I believe the loader.swf loads the param.xml which is basically all your settings from the component inspector or in Lightroom the grey panel on the side. It then loads slideshowpro.swf and then images.xml and so forth and then it works as like a TV to shrink down the exported slideshow and fits it into the loader.swf dimensions based off the parameters. If you ever loaded your slideshowpro.swf file out of Lightroom you’ll see that it’s just huge compared to the loader.swf which is often your chosen slideshow size.

What really would save the day would be to get the Director software and then you won’t have to worry about things getting divided up. You’d just put in the xml location of the Director album into each created slideshow or combine them into one giant show and then you’d gain image management capabilities as well as less confusion in the file renaming process.

That’s what someone else suggested and I didn’t think of it at first but most providers have MySQL support and PHP support already so if you do a lot of these slideshow’s this may be just what you need.

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Thanks Dan,

Clarified certain aspects. I’ve had a quick look at the SSP director, need to spend some distraction free time on it and see how it would help.
The past site I’ve worked on (http://www.simonnicholaswhite.com) had just one gallery so not a problem. My own site (www.scottish-photography.co.uk) has 17 individual galleries, more of a task to rework.
I’ll, when I get a chance try renaming and see if that works.

best,

seoras

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thanks for all you replies.

ive changed the xml path as told so it sits in the root directory and ive changed the xml path to “public_html/images.xml” and for the rest of them.

im guessing i have to do this with the parameters section on flash now.

but what has happened when i look at the site locally i only see the thumnails, and not the main images.agggh.

then on upload
its still not showing.

im importing the .swf file into freeway, which im certain is right, yes ??

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as the xml reads.

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gallery

album title=“Artwork”
description=“Examples Of Recent Work” lgpath=“public_html/visionsgallery/gallery/album1/lg/” tnpath=“public_html/visionsgallery/gallery/album1/tn/”

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I’m guessing by the site results that you got it working. If not where is the address to look at to see what’s going on?

Take a look at Director, it keeps getting better.

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Ive been using Slideshow pro for lightroom on its own since it came out ( and I love it). Ive just started working with Freeway Pro. If I already have a slide show set up with multiple albums, can I move the info required ( loader.swf images.xml etc…) to their original folder over so that it can work with FW? Or do I need to start over and redo all the slideshows etc…
Thanks
Dominic

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So you’re saying that you have a slideshow, with multiple albums, created already and you want to combine them? Is the slideshow currently not working correctly?

Why do you think you’d have to redo them?

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Yes I have a previously created slideshow ( via lightroom) with multiple albums, using its own created html page to show it. Its in its own folder ( labeled gallery) right now. I want to be able to import that slideshow into a page that I created using FW. I just tried the loader.swf into an html box but I get nothing at all. I assume its because its all in its own folder? Or is it due to that it was previously created and using its own html?
Thanks
D

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Sorry by nothing I mean the slide show didnt load at all.
D

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The loader.swf file is supposed to be just a placeholder for the flash item, sort of like a frame for slideshowpro.swf, and there is a specific folder structure you’ll need to get the slideshow to show up. You usually need the param.xml file and the images.xml file placed in the root directory with the loader.swf being in your Resources folder and then your slideshowpro.swf file needs to be where your images.xml file and param.xml file are located.

If that doesn’t work I’ll output a slideshow over here and figure out because I haven’t used it in quite some time.

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Cool Thanks Dan. Gotta head off to my other job, will try it later this eve.
Thanks again
Dominic

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Do these problems have to do with the embedding code being used on FW pages? I have a single album showing at http://luckypro.biz/client/walter/v7/port/bartwaltercurrentworks.html. But it looks to me like I should be able to embed the same slideshowpro.swf on multiple pages, and access them all through the same images.xml file.

I’m using the standalone version off SSP and hence the SWFObjectEmbed method of adding the albums to FW, and noted that each FW page must contain, as part of the embed code:

// SWFObject embed
var flashvars = {
startAlbumID: “albumcurrent”,
paramXMLPath: “param.xml”,
initialURL: escape(document.location)
}

When I began testing it, there were multiple albums in the images.xml file and my test pages pulled out the relevant albums just fine.

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On 18 Mar 2009, 5:06 pm, Dan J wrote:

The loader.swf file is supposed to be just a placeholder for the flash item, sort of like a frame for slideshowpro.swf, and there is a specific folder structure you’ll need to get the slideshow to show up. You usually need the param.xml file and the images.xml file placed in the root directory with the loader.swf being in your Resources folder and then your slideshowpro.swf file needs to be where your images.xml file and param.xml file are located.

Don’t know about all that, but I kind of doubt it, at least with the standalone version I’m testing. Here’s why!

I was tearing my hair out for hours trying to figure out why my v4 test site ran the SSP show fine, but my v7 site failed. It finally came down to the fact that the file path to the SSP files and images had the word “works” in it. In other words, having one of the directories named “works” killed SSP. Yes. Changing that directory’s name to “art,” or “crap,” or anything else renabled the SSP show. Really. Only change: “works” to something else.

And, I moved my “images” and “thumbs” folders into and out of all kinds of different places, until I figured out the “works” problem.

So, I’m pretty sure that, at least with the SWFObjectEmbed method, SSP doesn’t care where stuff is. With the possible exception that the slideshowpro.swf, swfobject.js, images.xml and param.xml all want to be in the same directory. (I don’t have a loader.swf for the Standalone version.)

You can see at http://luckypro.biz/client/walter/v7/port/bartwaltercurrentworks.html that my page source has to include full paths to the SSP files. But the “path” to params.xml is fully relative: it just says “paramXMLPath: “param.xml”.”

My params.xml includes the statement "xmlFilePath = “images.xml” so I assume that, as set up, all my working SSP files need to live in the same directory. But it doesn’t have to be any particular one.

Finally, my images.xml has statements:

lgPath=“http://luckypro.biz/client/walter/v7/port/resources_swf/images/”
tnPath=“http://luckypro.biz/client/walter/v7/port/resources_swf/thumb/”

I can change those statements to anything I want and it all still works. Hah. So long as neither of them contain the word “works.” Jeeze, that drove me insane.

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For some reason I thought someone in here was using the Lightroom version of SSP. That’s where the loader.swf file came from and what not.

What I did say above, Bucky, is 100% true for Lightroom users and it may be relevant for standalone users. I’ve never used the standalone version, but rather just bought anything SSP.

Regardless you got it working and that’s great.

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Yes, and I’ve been rooting through their somewhat arcane documentation online and doing some basic customizing. The standalone is pretty basic. There aren’t a lot of things you can do to it, other than the colors and sizes and so forth.

But I don’t have Flash itself, nor Lightroom, and at the moment can’t justify the cost for this one project!

I bet it’d be um, “interesting” to see what it could do when tricked up in Flash.

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