slideshowpro help needed asap

greygoose

greygoose

'that's what she said'
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is anyone using slideshowpro with either joomla or wordpress? i've made some swf files with slideshow pro and they are not working with either wordpress or with joomla. i can see the swf files with the browser. i can embed OTHER swf files (not made with slideshowpro) into joomla or wordpress. but for some reason the ssp files just wont work when i try to make a post and include a slideshow.


it cant be that hard what am i doing wrong my ninjas?!? :confused:

i've tried both creating files with lightroom and also flash cs3 but both attempts yielded on results when uploaded to my server.

this is my ftp and the files i uploaded
1zl957c.jpg
 
ICON said:
see what directory slideshowpro is looking for the xml file in.
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Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
    <album lgPath="album1/images/" tnPath="album1/thumb/" title="Album title" description="Album description" tn="album1/preview.jpg">
                <img src="1.jpg" title="" caption="" link="" target="_blank" pause="" />
		<img src="2.jpg" title="" caption="" link="" target="_blank" pause="" />
		<img src="3.jpg" title="" caption="" link="" target="_blank" pause="" />
		<img src="4.jpg" title="" caption="" link="" target="_blank" pause="" />
		<img src="5.jpg" title="" caption="" link="" target="_blank" pause="" />
    </album>
</gallery>

i belive the path is correct but feel free to correct me. either way the swf file is still playing the image files. i dont think the problem is with the swf file itself. i think its more or less something with the backend. something about that swfobject.js file. is there anyway to combine all these files into one swf file? sorta like having one movie file without the need for the other files and folders?
 
ICON said:
did you ever get your problem fixed?
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:yes:

i think the problem i was having was the way i was calling the swf file. i stopped using wordpress because i just didnt like it. from what i remember i think there was a flash plugin that you install and then use the script tag to call the swf file and i was fine. but, again, im done with wordpress for now.

with joomla the solution was to use the following script tag. it works like a charm. i also think one of the problems i had was trying to change the "swfobject.js" and making that "slideshowpro.swf" when i should have left that alone. :confused:

Code: 
<script type="text/javascript" src="whoa/swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="SlideshowPro">
 <p><strong>Please install Flash and turn on Javascript.</strong></p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("whoa/loader.swf", "loader", "670", "447", "7", "#131313");
so.addParam("base", "whoa/");
so.write("SlideshowPro");
</script>


in this line
Code: 
<script type="text/javascript" src="whoa/swfobject.js"></script>
the "whoa" is the folder in the directory where joomla is installed. so regardless of where the joomla templates are located when using relative addresses i just put them in the main joomla folder then link that way. you can name the folder anything, my folder name is "whoa".


in this line
Code: 
var so = new SWFObject("whoa/loader.swf", "loader", "670", "447", "7", "#131313");
again, whoa is the folder and loader.swf is the default name that slideshow pro gives the flash file.
670 and 447 are the dimensions of the flash file. i dont know what the number 7 represents if anyone can help me with that..........that'd be cool.


in this line
Code: 
so.write("SlideshowPro");
if you want slideshowpro to be fullscreen (or even the option for fullscreen) you can add this code right above it.
Code: 
so.addParam("allowFullScreen", "true");

so the full code, with that allow full screen code will look like this
Code: 
<script type="text/javascript" src="whoa/swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="SlideshowPro">
 <p><strong>Please install Flash and turn on Javascript.</strong></p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("whoa/loader.swf", "loader", "670", "447", "7", "#131313");
so.addParam("base", "whoa/");
so.addParam("allowFullScreen", "true");
so.write("SlideshowPro");
</script>

i wrote in depth hoping that if someone else has a problem they can find this thread and hopefully it will help. took me a countless hours trying to figure this out. :confused: but now its over. :yes:
 
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for wordpress 2.5 the slideshow pro worked without installing any plugins.

the folder for slideshowpro files lies at the top most directory where the main index.php file is located (not in the template folder, i made that mistake before) where empire is the name of the folder i used.


Code: 
<script type="text/javascript" src="empire/swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="SlideshowPro">
 <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("empire/loader.swf", "loader", "630", "440", "#131313");
so.addParam("base", "empire/");
so.write("SlideshowPro");
</script>

just an update in case someone asks in the future. just make sure in wordpress when you are inserting the script you are using the HTML editor to write your post and not the VISUAL editor. that gets me sometimes too
 
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