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Opening a Nugget in the side bar

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:07 pm
by rj
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

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:29 pm
by Don Chambers
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...

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:36 pm
by rj
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

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:24 am
by rj
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

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:57 am
by Don Chambers
RJ - maybe we can try to test this if you can provide a link to the actual swf you want to use.....

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:10 am
by rj
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...

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:35 pm
by Don Chambers
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>

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:58 pm
by rj
Thats the direction Don! Thanx... I will work on refining that in the nugget.