SSP User Guide

2SlideShowPro 1.4.2 User Guide

Contents

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3Installation ......................................................................................................................................4Your ﬁrst slide show .......................................................................................................................5Display your slide show online.....................................................................................................8Introducing the Component Inspector .....................................................................................10Interface: General .........................................................................................................................11Interface: Component size ..........................................................................................................13Interface: Navigation ...................................................................................................................15Interface: Gallery .........................................................................................................................18Interface: Image scaling and alignment ...................................................................................21Interface: Typography .................................................................................................................23Interface: Preloaders ....................................................................................................................25Behavior: Image transitions ........................................................................................................26Behavior: Playback .......................................................................................................................27Enhancements: Album thumbnails ..........................................................................................29Enhancements: Audio .................................................................................................................31Enhancements: Image captions .................................................................................................34Enhancements: Image hyperlinks .............................................................................................37Enhancements: Image thumbnails ............................................................................................39Enhancements: Keyboard control .............................................................................................42Enhancements: Localization ......................................................................................................43Enhancements: Permalinks ........................................................................................................44Enhancements: Preloading .........................................................................................................47Enhancements: Sound eﬀects .....................................................................................................48Enhancements: Watermarks ......................................................................................................50Enhancements: XML overrides..................................................................................................52Loading images from Flickr .......................................................................................................53ActionScript: Introduction .........................................................................................................55ActionScript: Custom navigation ..............................................................................................57ActionScript: Event listeners ......................................................................................................59Tips and tricks ..............................................................................................................................64Updating previous versions ........................................................................................................67Troubleshooting ...........................................................................................................................68

3SlideShowPro 1.4.2 User Guide

Introduction

SlideShowPro is a component for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 that helps youshare your pictures online. With over 60 customizable options, SlideShowPro works howyou want it to.To get you up and running quickly, this user guide begins with a trio of “quick start”instructional chapters: “Installation,” “Your ﬁrst slide show” and “Display your slide showonline.” ese three sections will help you publish a slide show using only the defaultsettings of SlideShowPro, and will give you a basic understanding of how the componentworks.Once you’re ready to customize your slide show, move on to “Introducing the componentinspector” chapter. is introduces you to the panel where nearly all of your editing willoccur for the rest of this user guide.Next up are three main sections -- “Interface,” “Behavior,” and “Enhancements.”“Interface” describes each of SlideShowPro’s user interface areas in detail, and outlinesthe options available to you with each. “Behavior” covers SlideShowPro’s actions,from auto-playback to transitioning between images. Last but certainly not least,“Enhancements” gets down to business with complete walkthroughs for adding extrafeatures to your slide show, from image captions to thumbnails and more.At the end of the guide are instructions for using SlideShowPro with Flickr, an overviewof using ActionScript to programatically control the component, tips and tricks,troubleshooting, and ﬁnally how to update your component when updates are released.By the end of this guide you’ll know nearly everything there is to know aboutSlideShowPro. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the guide, or get lost, by allmeans go to the web site and contact us. We’d appreciate the feedback.Let’s get started!