JW Image Rotator 3.17 ***Update 19/09/13***(Depreciated)

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun May 24, 2009 2:53 pm

***19/09/2013***
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Please note that this extenson is now provided "As Is" I no longer support this as it is no longer supported by the original author.
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***Updated 25/05/11***
Extension has been rebuilt using latest builder this was done to ensure that it loads in the latest version of WB

JW Image Rotator 3.17
***Updated 01/06/010**
Meets W3C Standards

Built with Extension Builder 2.6.1

The JW Image Rotator (built with Adobe's Flash) enables you to display photos in sequence with fluid transitions. It supports rotation of JPG, GIF and PNG images, a wide range of flashvars (variables) for tweaking both behaviour and appearance can be set from within the extension.

jwimagerotatorwb.jpg

Authors Site
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/
Created Under
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Extension is now available to download from the Extension Manager in WB 7 and 8

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sun May 24, 2009 2:56 pm

BF As ever it is FANTASTIC!!!!! LOVE IT!!!! NICE ONE!

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun May 24, 2009 3:29 pm

Welcome......

stamjoe · Post by **stamjoe** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:50 pm

hello,
i was trying to add the script to a page of mine but when i clicked at the ''preview'' i shaw only the script, the rest of the web page elements (background, buttons etc.) was disappeared....
I add caption in greek language but it didnt work...

What can i do?

Thanks in advance.
Joe

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:28 pm

Evening stamjoe first question are you using unicode version of WB? if you are using unicode then the extension will not work...
I have just checked the extension and it works as it should I did try adding greek characters but they do not show correctly this is due to being incompatible with unicode version

stamjoe · Post by **stamjoe** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:35 pm

hello, i use the WB 6.4. version, not the unicode.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:51 pm

Then it should work fine as I just tested before answering how can I recreate what is going wrong.... when you say all you see is the script on page.
I dont believe that you will be able to show titles in greek language as this will require unicode to work I even tried setting to Greek\ISO-8859-7 and Greek\Windows-1253 ansd the characters dont display correctly....
Try the extension again without greek language and let me know.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:33 pm

BF;

I have discovered the following parameters:

s2.addVariable("audio","sample.mp3");

Also

to add "Relative Resize"

to add

s2.addVariable("overstretch","fit");

Are you planning to add Audio to this cool extension?

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:13 pm

HI sneil I am looking into it as I wriite this....but yes it is possible

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:42 am

BaconFries wrote:HI sneil I am looking into it as I wriite this....but yes it is possible

Great. looking forward to it.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:37 pm

BF;

One more thing;

You can now add the option so the images go into the "Images" folder, as the stand currently they are outside it. (EXTB 1.5)

Cheers.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:14 pm

Yer see that I think this option only works if your using Type:filei n the builder to add images I am looking at how I can acheive this using the dataset but I think I need to write the xsl to do this

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:16 pm

Fair enough.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:26 pm

Yep got it all going like that added into overstretch fit,none to cover other variables just needing to write this with the audio variable into pdf test then upload......

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:27 pm

BaconFries wrote:Yep got it all going like that added into overstretch fit,none to cover other variables just needing to write this with the audio variable into pdf test then upload......

Fab job, It really is a very cool extension. Certainly beats Bcastr.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:07 am

BF thank you for adding those in.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:59 pm

BF;
I seem to be struggling with portrait images if the SWF is set 100% for width and height. It seems to chop the images. Any suggestions/ideas?

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:26 pm

Let me see what I can come up with I may post a question to this in JW board see what the boffins come up with there will get back to you on this ....

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:32 pm

BaconFries wrote:Let me see what I can come up with I may post a question to this in JW board see what the boffins come up with there will get back to you on this ....

Great!!!! You can show them the URL I sent you to illustrate the issue if you like.

Thanks again.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:15 pm

BF;

I was just reading this in the new 6.1

New feature: Added 'Stretch content' property to layer. This can be used to position and resize objects based on the size of the browser window.

Now does this mean in order to achieve what I wanted to do I need to place your extension on a layer object?

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:34 pm

Hmmm I will need to check that out just noticed the New release..will download and see what can be done. Poping out for a bit and if you beat me to it let me know...if this works I have checked with the forum at longtail still no reply

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:05 pm

Been trying to use this extension and have ran into a problem. It works great with 6.0.2.0, but doesnot work with 6.1.0.0 . Like stamjoe said earlier in FF I see the pictures I choose but nothing else and its not even where I put it on the page. In IE it doesnt even come up at all.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:37 pm

Evening iamafireman2 I just made this demo in WB6 v6.1 and it seems to be working at my end on PC and on test server... are you trying to put images into the image folder then test? if this is what you are doing then this is why it wont show images as the path is not pointing to them in the xml file. When you test in WB6 and preview the extension pass the path to the xml as such
<track>
<title>Hello world</title>
<creator>Just me</creator>
<location>full6.jpg</location>
<info>http://ww.mywebsite.com</info>
</track>
<track>
This can be overcome by making the path in extenion in the properties
like this then saving...and uploading the images on your server to folder images then it will be seen
http://mywebsite.co.uk/images/mypics.jpg

Although I havnt done this is demo the purpose is to show it working

http://justtesting123.comuf.com/rotator/

take a look here this is a live site using the extension
http://www.jetsonscollectionbyanoosh.co.cc/

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:42 am

I must be missing something. Where in the properties do I change the path of the pictures? And do I need to manually load all pictures to the server? Should the xml look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
- <trackList>
- <track>
<title>Hello world</title>
<creator>Just me</creator>
<location>http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/imag ... </location>
<info />
</track>
- <track>
<title>Hello world</title>
<creator>Just me</creator>
<location>http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/imag ... </location>
<info />
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:23 am

iamafireman2 wrote:I must be missing something. Where in the properties do I change the path of the pictures? And do I need to manually load all pictures to the server? Should the xml look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
- <trackList>
- <track>
<title>Hello world</title>
<creator>Just me</creator>
<location>http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/imag ... </location>
<info />
</track>
- <track>
<title>Hello world</title>
<creator>Just me</creator>
<location>http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/imag ... </location>
<info />
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>

This

<location>http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/imag ... </location>

should be:

<location>http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/imag ... 001[b].jpg[/b]</location>

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:48 am

As sneil69 has posted you need to show the path to your images it can be done like this in extension....

Like this

Or This

You will still have manually upload the images to the correct folder on your server though this needs to be the same as you put in extension it doest need to be images as long as the path in the xml points to the folder you place the images in

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:19 pm

Ok I have changed the path to include ".jpg" still having a problem. In IE all i see is the pictures but no header. In both FF and IE the pictures are all the way at the top of the page.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:28 pm

I am not sure how you are adding your images judging by your XML file

http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/playlist.xml

They seem to refer to a URL rather than an absolute path.

This is what I have in mine

<title> </title>
<creator> </creator>
<location>2.jpg</location>
<info> </info>

where as yours

<title>Hello world</title>
<creator>Just me</creator>
−
<location>
http://www.youonthenetyet.net/ttmp/images/DSC_0011.jpg
</location>
<info> </info>
</track>

If you add the images through the extension, it should be like mine. I would have it at least like this:

<title> </title>
<creator> </creator>
<location>images/2.jpg</location>
<info> </info>

Try doing it this way and I am sure it would work.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:58 pm

Evening iamafireman2 as sneil as shown should work for you I have made it like this with the xml file I used for the demo to show how it should look see the first link below and second is the rotator using it
XML
http://justtesting123.comuf.com/rotator/playlist.xml
Rotator
http://justtesting123.comuf.com/rotator/

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:02 pm

I appreciate yall's help. I can get it to work now, BUT when I center page in browser it messes up. That was the problem all along. I have treid it many times now and same results. You can use the same link above to see.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:45 pm

Hi ok using the center in WB does mess things up I cant say why....sorry. I manually made this demo and it seems to be ok with me, you can let me know. You mentioned the header not showing in earlier post the reason for this I believe all flash gets sent to front of everything else on page. So with the rotator as you will see in the new doemo I have made its size smaller than the image size and it works fine and when you go fullscreen the image gets displayed at correct size. As always if I can help I will... if it can be fixed....

http://justtesting123.comuf.com/rotator/

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:33 pm

Thanks Bacon, I also tried an inline frame and that seems to work for the centering problem.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:20 am

Your welcome as always if I can fix any bugs add a variable I will assuming that it can be done....enjoy

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:41 pm

BF;

Just a question, Is there a reason why there is a limit on the size of the control? Currently it is 250, 259. I know you set the true values in the extension but is there anyway you can relax this limitation on your next update? It is just it makes it easier in design time in relation to other other objects.

Cheers Mate.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:10 pm

Hi bendigo
No reason I guessI just set it to that while bilding and just never reset to a lower setting. I will try to just update sometime over the weekend and repost.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:10 pm

BaconFries wrote:Hi bendigo
No reason I guessI just set it to that while bilding and just never reset to a lower setting. I will try to just update sometime over the weekend and repost.

BF as ever first class service + first class extension!!! thank you!

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:42 pm

***20/11/09***
Small update to the script that fixes the need to use a iframe when using page centering you can now use without the iframe and place image rotator were you wish.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:36 am

***Updated 27/12/09***
Meets W3C Standards

Built with Extension Builder 2.0.2

me.prosenjeet · Post by **me.prosenjeet** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:03 pm

Anyway we can make the images used in this extension to be saved in the common "Images" folder than scattered around in the open?

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:32 pm

Well this has a Yes and No answer...The extension itself cannot add the images directly to the image folder this is because using the dataset feature in ExtBuilder using add file doesnt allow this it just places them in the root...

it has been requested in suggestion for this to be added in dataset.
The only way to to add them to the image folder is manually but providing the pathway to the folder in the extension itself see the two screens below.
If pablo/support could add this feature in the dataset of Ext Builder then I will rebuild the extension to do so but at present the only way round is below...

Or

me.prosenjeet · Post by **me.prosenjeet** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:36 pm

Thanks Bacon for your reply.
Actually keeping the images in the images folder keeps the things organised. I hope support reads your reply sometime and adds that feature in the extension builder.
Thanks for your help

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:00 pm

Bacon,
I used the older version with an iframe and it works great. I am updating my site and when I use the new version without an iframe I see the round loading bar on just about every picture. I am using the same pictures as before and only see the loading bar on the first picture on page load.
Does using an iframe make the page load different or is the new version of the extension a little heavier in weight and it take that extra second to load.
It not a BIG deal, but the pictures just flow alot better when the loading bar doesnt show up.
original site
http://www.treasurethemomentphotography ... ement.html
site working on
http://www.treasurethemomentphotography ... engagement

Thanks

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:55 pm

Hi ok I have looked at both your pages and the page using the iframe does load faster....I have also looked at the old version of the extension and compared it to that latest release and the the final output size is 60kb greater so it does look like it is heavier, saying this nothing newer was added to the files to cause this everything used to build remained the same I can only asume when the extension was made with the newer version of the builder that it uses stricter coding to make sure that it is compatiable with 6.5.X dont know if there much I can do to fix this as I have taken a look at some of the older versions of extension pre 6.5.x and the size was smaller then compared to all the updates which has increased has inceased... I will askSupport?Pablo regarding this,,,,If you can try the newer version in a iframe and see if this helps the load speed of the extension...I am off to get some sleep and will look more at this tomorrow...

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:26 am

Well as of now the wife said she kinda likes the loading bar when if shows. She says it lets you know that there is something going on.

Also if I have a different rotator on several pages and the pictures have different names do you have to put the pages in folder.
I know if the pages arent in folders than all the images will be in the root folder on hosting but thats ok.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:42 am

Yes if you wish to use more than one image rotator on your site then you will need to use seperate folders giving each one a unique name...although I havent tried this for a while with the extension you could try giving the pathway to a set folder for the rotator images inserting this in the extenion itself were you add the images...
Pathways:
viewtopic.php?t=19695&start=30
Using folders:
viewtopic.php?t=8384

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:35 am

Bacon, this may be asking alot but anyway you can remove the " hello world,justme, and mywebsite"
I am in the process of a rebuild and have hundreds of photos and to delete all those is 3 more steps "x "hundreds.
I would really appreciate it.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:39 pm

Evening iamafireman yes I can do that for you can I email to this site
treasurethemomen...

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:09 pm

Thanks alot. just hit the email button below my post by my profile button

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:20 pm

Extension is on its way

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:48 pm

Thanks. working like a charm

www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com

JW Image Rotator 3.17 Update 19/09/13(Depreciated)

JW Image Rotator 3.17 Update 19/09/13(Depreciated)