By Todd Dominey | Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 1:59 pm

SlideShowPro for Flash / Standalone updated to 1.9.8.5

Today we’re releasing an update to the SlideShowPro for Flash components (ActionScript 2 and 3) as well as a player update to SlideShowPro Standalone. This release (1.9.8.5) includes a number of tweaks and adjustments to the player, a couple of bug fixes, and some new things as well.

The player now includes a “Loop” playback option. It allows you to turn on/off boundary detection at the beginning and end of an album. By turning it on, you can navigate from the first asset back to the last, and vice versa. This works with the navigation bar, content area navigation, and public methods called via ActionScript.

Also new are additional caption appearance options: “Fixed on Rollover” and “Fixed on Rollover (if Available)”. These are the same as “Fixed” except they only show-up on mouse-over.

This release also incorporates changes to the default appearance of captions. The “header” background is now transparent by default, and we’ve added additional parameters to control the padding and color of header text. This gives the captions an updated appearance, and offers designers more control.

There are a number of other tweaks/improvements to the player you can read about at the wiki.

For those of you using SlideShowPro for Lightroom, an update that incorporates 1985 (plus other updates) is coming soon.