SlideShowPro News

07.29.05 | Murat Koc Photography

Photographer Murat Koc is using SlideShowPro to present his portfolio in a clean, minimal, nearly all-black interface (even coloring the thumbnail preview windows, which was added in the last update to SSP). Check it out here by selecting "Portfolio."

07.27.05 | A note about FlashObject 1.2

FlashObject, the JavaScript file used for embedding Flash content (which I have recommended the use of), was recently updated to version 1.2. As part of the update, FlashObject now requires users to specify an element ID when using the write() method.

Why do I point this out? Because the User Guide contains an example of FlashObject code in the "Enhancements: Permalinks" section that shows an empty (and now broken) write() method. So if you update to FlashObject 1.2, you must create a named element in your page, like so:

<div id="flashcontent"></div>

Then in your FlashObject code, you need to pass this id as a parameter in the write method:

myFlashObject.write('flashcontent');

The User Guide will be updated in the next revision, but for now, make sure your embed code is formatted correctly if updating to FlashObject 1.2.

07.19.05 | EventDispatcher in SSP - Feedback Requested

I'm adding support for the EventDispatcher class in the next version of SlideShowPro, which will enable those of you with a little ActionScript acumen to detect specific events -- whether they be display mode changes, returning the caption text of the current image, detecting when a user rolls over and out of a loaded image, etc. I've already added a few of the more obvious events, but could use some user feedback on what else you'd like to listen-for and potentially code around. Please check out this forum thread and post your thoughts if you'd like to contribute. Thanks!

07.17.05 | SlideShowPro 1.1.0 Released

Small update to fix a couple of bugs that popped up in the last revision, plus a new "Thumbnail Color" parameter so you may change the color of the pop-up thumbnail preview window. For more information see the Version History page. To download the update, which is free for all users, log in to your user account.

07.12.05 | Flash Player 8 Public Beta

In case you didn't notice, Macromedia has released a public beta of Flash Player 8 for Windows and OS X. I've checked out SlideShowPro using players on both platforms, and everything appears to work fine.

Word to the wise -- now that a new Flash Player is circulating, make sure your web pages (if they have Flash player detection) are configured to support version 8 of the Flash Player. Lord knows how many times I've visited a web site to find they're explicitly detecting the latest Flash player (in this case Flash Player 7), and not anything newer, and won't let you past the gate.

So if you're using a third party JavaScript file, test it out using the public beta player immediately. For those of you using FlashObject to embed your movie, you have nothing to be concerned about. It works.

07.10.05 | 1.0.9 Audio bug

For those of you using the latest version (1.0.9), there's a small bug with the "Show Audio Player" parameter. If set to False, and there is an MP3 file associated with an album, the audio doesn't play. In other words, you must set the parameter to True in order for audio to playback, which isn't how it's supposed to be. I'll fix it for the next release.

07.09.05 | MakingRoom Magazine

The just-launched MakingRoom, and online photography magazine, is using SlideShowPro to present images from each of their contributing photographers. They thoroughly customized the colors of SlideShowPro to match their site colors of brown, blue, white and gray, and even added in a cool tweening animation that slides SSP in an out of view. Click on any photographer on the front page, then "Launch Slideshow" to see how they used SSP. But be sure to check out the rest of the site -- it's very well designed with great content.