Opening a Nugget in the side bar

rj · Post by rj » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:07 pm

I have a slide show in the sidebar as a html nugget.
Slows things down some.

Is there anyway of holding it back unless asked for?
A CLICK FOR SHOW SLIDE SHOW link in the same nugget?

thanx

RJ

Post by **Don Chambers** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:29 pm

If it is a swf, you can save the show with auto play true/false settings (I think).

I think you could also use:

<param name="PLAY" value="false" /> (or maybe that's AUTOPLAY).

I'm kinda guessing here...

rj · Post by rj » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:36 pm

It is swf and I should have thought about that on my own, but it complicated as its a slideshow variation and there are two going at once. But your info is enough for me to start playing around with it...
thanks don...

RJ

rj · Post by rj » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:24 am

Got with the swf people on this and cannot be done with a slideshow swf.
So it has to be some way of loading an html nugget with the code, with a click in the sidebar to present in the same spot in the sidebar.
Any thoughts...

RJ

Post by **Don Chambers** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:57 am

RJ - maybe we can try to test this if you can provide a link to the actual swf you want to use.....

rj · Post by rj » Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:10 am

http://rackjite.com/web/slide.html

I made that one fooling around tonight. Its what is in the sidebar. There are 25 graphics on each side. There are 200 for each side but I break them up into these sets of 50 and change them every week.

The guy who gave me the code for swf slideshow says it cant be stopped in the code itself. You knwo macro8 stuff...

I suppose I could take a snapshot of it, put that in the sidebar with a link to all 200 going at once on a separate page...

If I could get that new page to be some sort of a popup that is the same size as the slideshow... A window 300 by 200 without the browser... I would settle for that. But in a whole new big browser window or tab, it sort of defeats the purpose...

Post by **Don Chambers** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:35 pm

Sorry RJ - I personally do not have that much experience with swf's. I had presumed the way to not autoload was a function of the swf itself.

You could try something like this:

<a href="/whatever/" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'window_title', 'width=300,height=200,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;">

Then your <img blah blah></a>

rj · Post by rj » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:58 pm

Thats the direction Don! Thanx... I will work on refining that in the nugget.