PHP auto-XML generator script added

Posted by Todd Dominey on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 2:55 pm

Developer Brian Sweeting was nice enough to offer a PHP script he wrote to automatically publish an XML document containing all the necessary elements and attributes from a directory of images. Script is documented, straightforward, and should be a big timesaver for those with PHP. Grab it on the new Scripts page.

Two caption-related bugs

Posted by Todd Dominey on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 6:38 pm

There is a small issue in SSP 1.0 involving caption attributes in your XML. If you create a caption attribute for the first image in your album, and then leave out a caption for the following images, and you have “Show Captions” set to “If Available,” the caption information will ‘stick’ to the first image’s data and not change. As a temporary workaround, set “Show Captions” to “Always” — if your image doesn’t have a caption, it will automatically display “No image caption”.

The second bug comes into play if you set “Image Scaling” to false, load an image that is wider than SSP, and have a caption associated with the image. The 1.0 build of SSP draws the caption text field too wide. As a temporary solution, set “Image Scaling” to true.

Both of these issue have been fixed, and will be included in the next point release.

ActionScript issue

Posted by Todd Dominey on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 10:54 am

If you choose to modify the properties of SlideShowPro using ActionScript instead of the Property panel, there’s an issue in 1.0 that will cause the AS values to be ignored. This will be fixed in a cleaner manner in the next update, but for now, here’s a way to force your AS values over the panel properties. After all of your property changes, add: instanceName.setSize(width,height);. Subsitute the width and height with whatever width and height you want SlideShowPro to appear at (this will override your manual transform on the stage). If you call this method after all your properties, they will push through. This is a temporary fix for 1.0 that will be resolved soon.

Another OPML help document typo

Posted by Todd Dominey on at 10:54 am

Another small typo in the OPML document (must have been late at night when I wrote this one — groan). Previously, it noted to use xmlURL as the attribute for your RSS feed. This attribute should actually be xmlUrl (note the lowercase R and L at the end).

startHere attribute not working

Posted by Todd Dominey on at 10:52 am

Not sure how this wound up broken, but the special startHere album-attribute override you can use to force SlideShowPro into starting with a different album than the first isn’t functioning as it should. As a workaround, I suggest changing the order of your albums in the XML so that the album you wish to start with is first in order.

This issue has been fixed will be included in the next point release.

OPML help document typo

Posted by Todd Dominey on Monday, February 14, 2005 at 10:51 am

There’s a small (but important) typo in the documentation installed in Flash’s Help panel concerning the creation of OPML documents. The example should include an <outline element name before the xmlUrl attribute. This will be updated in the next component update, but for now the online help document has been fixed.