SlideShowPro News

11.26.08  |  Taking a break for Thanksgiving

In case you’re not in the United States, tomorrow is a national holiday where Americans consume copious amounts of turkey, bread, green beans, and more than one bottle of red wine. It’s the gluttonous, disgusting spectacle we call Thanksgiving, and while we’d like to be here working on new stuff and answering emails, we’ll be offline tomorrow, Friday, and the weekend for that matter. We’ll try to jump in and assist with emergencies when the turkey buzz wears off and the in-laws are napping, but for the most part our plug will be pulled. We’ll of course keep an ear out for any downtime with this site and Director Hosting, but we don’t anticipate there being any problems. With that, Happy Thanksgiving to all, and we’ll see you again on Monday.

11.19.08  |  SlideShowPro for Flash 1.8.9.6 released

SlideShowPro for Flash has been updated to version 1.8.9.6. Check out what’s been updated in the version history.

11.18.08  |  Director 1.2.11, DirectorPHP 1.0.3 released

We’ve just released a small update to both Director and the DirectorPHP class that should resolve most encoding issues experienced when using Director’s API. In particular, it ensures UTF-8 encoding is proper before parsing the XML response from Director’s API as well as removing bad metadata that is sometimes present in photos processed by Picasa. If either one of those issues are affecting you, upgrade to the latest versions of both Director and the DirectorPHP class.

One other change on the Director side is support for the new F4V video format introduced in CS4. You can now upload these files via Director just like you have always been able to with FLVs.

As always, you can get the latest version of Director in the account center. To download the latest version of the DirectorPHP class, visit the Director extras page.

11.12.08  |  SlideShowPro for Lightroom 1.3.5 released

A small point update is now available that resolves an issue with the HTML Background parameter not being rendered in the live preview. This only affected the Lightroom 2 version of the extension. The product has also been updated with the latest component version of SlideShowPro. Login to your account profile to download.

11.04.08  |  SlideShowPro for Flash Button Packs updated

Both the Pearl and Quartz button packs have been updated with two extra icons each that replace the video play button that appears in the center of videos when Video Auto Start is set to “Off.” If you use the button packs and want to update your slideshow, make sure you use the new ActionScript code included in the download so that all of the navigation icons are replaced. Login to your member profile to download.

11.03.08  |  SlideShowPro for Flash 1.8.9.5 released

A new point update for SlideShowPro for Flash is now available for download in the Account Center.

This release patches up an issue with the Cache Content parameter in the AS3 version, a few tweaks to Media RSS loading (both AS3 and AS2), plus a few other small things. The main changes in this release are enhancements to the “Standalone” version of SlideShowPro that’s distributed with the Flash extension for those who don’t own the Flash authoring application.

Before, assigning parameters could only be done through the static param.xml file the standalone version loaded. This was fine for most parameters, but it prevented developers from being able to dynamically assign parameters (for example, the XML File Path). So with this release, any parameter in param.xml can be overridden through FlashVars. Simply add the parameter, its new value, and the FlashVar value will be used instead.

Another change is that SlideShowPro’s methods are now exposed through ExternalInterface. Meaning, standalone users can now do things like switch albums through HTML links outside of the SWF, just like the extension users can.

Finally, an attempt was made at simplifying the standalone’s embedding process by removing sspWidth and sspHeight from param.xml. Changing both the width/height of the SWF and SlideShowPro was a bit laborious and confusing for new users, so with this release the standalone SWF now automatically scales to whatever size you embed your SWF at.

To read more about the changes, visit the updated Standalone section of our help wiki. Version History has been updated as well.