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Silverlight-based Slide.Show powering the galleries now
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Earlier today I saw Nikhil Kothari had implemented a cool slide show on his site. It was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately I spent the last 8 hours trying to figure out how to implement it. Some of that time was wasted on a stupid error...grrr....a few more hours on getting it to work on CS. Anyway, check out the galleries and let me know what you think. I will write up a post on how I implemented it in the next couple of days. I also have to solve the wierd 4001 error thats coming up...oh and post some photos...

Posted at 11:31 AM on Friday, December 14, 2007
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  • Daryll said:

    Hi Matt... Thanks for the complements! I'm one of the 2 devs that worked on this project, and have been curious about people's reaction to configuration and implementation.

    I noticed your gallery section is not working with Slide.Show, so I decided to take a look at the issue. It seems your script tag link to the SlideShow.js file is pointing at a "localhost" path, which might not work for your visitors.

    December 14, 2007 12:58 PM
  • Will said:

    Hi Matt,

    I also viewed your source code to see why your slideshow isn't working for me and saw this in your HTML (below).

    It looks like you have 2 references to SlideShow.js (there should only be one). One is pointing to "http://localhost", which as Daryll pointed out will not work for the general public. The other points to a relative path in the same folder which doesn't appear to be a valid file. Things should work once you get these files/paths/tags sorted out.

    Thanks for using it on your site! Please keep your feedback coming.

    -Will (Slide.Show project lead, Vertigo)

    <script src="/themes/orange/galleries/Silverlight.js?Version=3.0.20611.960" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script src="localhost/.../Slideshow.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script src=SlideShow.js type="text/javascript"></script>

    December 14, 2007 3:46 PM
  • Offbeatmammal said:

    I also noticed you were using a couple of ASPX/H files to provide the configuration.xml and data.xml sources...

    are you dynamically generating those from the file structure somehow?

    Having just manually edited a bunch of xml to get a gallery in I wrote a very simple asp page to do it... but doesn't probe the files for the metadata (descriptions etc) - so wondered if you had the secret sauce that does it (if so... is it something you could share on the codeplex site?)

    December 15, 2007 11:36 AM
  • Matt said:

    I will post all the details tomorrow (after getting my winter tires installed). Been a surprisingly busy weekend...

    December 16, 2007 7:10 AM
  • Will said:

    Hey Matt, looks like your slideshow is still broken. It should work if you remove "localhost" from your script tag path.

    December 17, 2007 6:52 PM
  • Matt said:

    Been out of town for a few weeks. Turns out the error was an IE error, fixed it but broke it for everyone now. will figure it out in a few days.

    December 28, 2007 3:48 AM
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