SlideShowPro News

06.17.06 | SlideShowPro 1.3.1 Released

SlideShowPro 1.3.1 is now available. What's new? Well, a few things.

One request that has dogged me since the launch of SlideShowPro has been auto/manual playback. Namely, the fact that a slide show can start in Auto mode, but if a user switches albums the slide show switches to Manual. In other words, stops. It's been this way for quite a while, but a number of people talked me into changing it. So now if your slide show starts in "Auto" mode, SSP remembers that setting, and if a user switches albums auto playback is maintained.

Another popular request was image scaling. Ever since 1.0, there has been two options -- scaling, or no scaling. 1.3.1 adds a new option: "Downscale Only." This means that if a slide show image is smaller than the component, it will not be upscaled. But larger images will be proportionally downscaled as always. (Note: for those of you using ActionScript to set this value, the parameter is now a string, and no longer a boolean. So you'll need to update your code).

A new event too -- galleryState -- which broadcasts when the gallery area is open, closed or hidden. This was a popular request with people creating custom navigations.

Then there are a few tweaks including a LivePreview bug with the caption bar, a fix to slide shows that have "Image Fade" set to 0 (hence no transition), and revised behavior for the thumbnail preview box (it only appears if a valid image file is found so you don't see the white box if there's an error).

Last but certainly not least, the "startHere" XML override has been deprecated. It was a bit of a hack from the early days of SSP, and with the much more robust "setStartAlbum()" now the best way to accomplish the same thing (dictating what album to start with), it's a good time to kick it out and optimize the code. So if you're using startHere in your XML, I highly recommend switching over to setStartAlbum().

As always, 1.3.1 is a free update to all registered users. Login to your member account to download.