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[Plugin: ShowTime Slideshow] problems and questions (23 posts)

  1. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ok, I tried running it on wpmu, the result is that it simply displays the gallery :-(

    here is a test: http://adi.zice.ro/2009/09/22/test-pentru-slideshow/

    you see the gallery twice as I am testing two slideshow plugins, both have the same problem: they simply display the gallery.

    besides, as a feature request, how about giving us the option of random transition effects?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showtime-slideshow/

  2. royahuis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Unfortunately I have the same problem. What does your post look like?

    I have, on http://www.4za.nl, [showtime][gallery]. This shows [gallery] but neither the gallery nor the slideshow.

  3. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    hello Ovidiu,
    hello royahuis,

    I am aware of the problem. Renaming the folder "showtime-slideshow" into "showtime" should solve it.

    This bug will be changed in the next version along with some other things. I will also extend the transitions and display options. Please let me know what you would like to see in future versions...

    This is my first plugin, so please excuse this glitch. I was not aware that the directory would change in the wordpress repository.

    Thanks for trying this early version of the plugin.
    Paul

  4. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    This issue is solved in the current version of the plugin. (0.6)

    If you have manually changed the directory name, I recommend that you delete the old plugin prior to update.

    I am going add more transition effects and try to improve those already implemented. Perhaps a random transition option will follow...

  5. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    unfortunately neither updating nor deleting the plugin and reinstalling this new version helped :-(

  6. kissedvixen
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi I am having problems with this plugin too
    I uninstalled it and downloaded manually, then renamed the folder to showtime.

    I uploaded my images, to the post. Added [showtime] to the html code
    and I get nothing

    I am using the latest version of this plugin and wordpress

    any ideas?

  7. kwilde1
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I am so excited for this plugin and it works initially (after installation through my WordPress admin), but doesn't appear at all when I try to change the settings. When I tried installing manually and changing the folder name as you've mentioned, it doesn't appear either.

    I hope you can figure out what's happening! I have been searching for an elegant and clean slide show like this for several months, once it's functional it will be perfect.

  8. kwilde1
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    P.S. One feature I'd like to see in a future update would be the ability to define a background color that fills in when the image does not completely fill the flash area.

  9. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ovidiu: I have looked at your source, and it appears to me that you have different slideshow engines installed. try to deactivate other slideshow plugins and let me know if it helped
    kissedvixen, kwilde1: the folder name suggestion was only for the first release. It should not be changed in any version after 0.5. Folder name should be "showtime-slideshow".
    I have been notified that the slideshow does not appear on windows/firefox. I'll have a look into that this weekend.
    thanks for the suggestion kwilde. currently, the flash movie clip is set to transparent, you may want to change the background with css.

  10. royahuis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    As far as the background-color is concerned, I think
    .showtime { background-color: #ff0000; } in your CSS would give it a red background-color.

    @youtag: I think this is a really promising plugin. I happen to use FF3/windows, and indeed: the flash is loaded but stays transparant > no images loaded. If I can help in any way by testing, please let me know.

  11. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ok, I have deactivated the other plugin. your plugin is now the only active slideshow plugin. still no luck, and obviously I use FF on windows :-(

  12. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    royahuis, thank you very much for offering your help. i have spent most of last night trying to figure out why it did not work in FF on windows. it is especially frustrating because in my virtual Windows, it works fine on local server and about 1 times out of 3 on the remote. Now i have disabled background transparency, and it seems to work consistently. If you guys can check out version 0.9 and post back here about your experience on windows, I'll appreciate!
    (of course FF is essential, however I preferred Chrome on Windows for day-to-day browsing - so fast :)

  13. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    unfortunately, on my test it still doesn't work.

    this is the code I inserted into the test-post:

    [gallery link="file"]
    [showtime]

    and all that shows up on the result is the normal wp gallery :-(

    check it here: http://adi.zice.ro/2009/09/22/test-pentru-slideshow/

  14. kissedvixen
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Great job! It works perfectly now :)

    I am just using it as the slideshow, with no gallery and it works just right.

    One thing that it would be nice, if your still working on new versions.
    Is a thumbnail scroller, that could be used or not used at will.
    One of those nice ones, that could just appear on the bottom, and auto hide when not used.

    But for now :) We are really happy with your work

    Thanks :)

  15. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Ovidiu, I tried to reproduce the bug you are experiencing, I have even installed all the plugins you seem to use, but on my localhost it still works fine.
    By the way the xml is generated all right and everything in the source looks good.
    a standalone test also worked: http://adi.zice.ro/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/showtime.swf?xml=getxml.php?id=52&showcontrols=on&transition=kenburns&autoplay=on&showtext=on
    If you happen to find what caused this bug I would be very thankful.

  16. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    can't figure out what is happening. the sourcecode looks like this:

    <script type='text/javascript'>
    
    					var flashvars = {};
    					flashvars.xml = 'http://adi.zice.ro/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php?id=52';
    
    					flashvars.width = '480';
    					flashvars.height = '320';
    
    					flashvars.rotationtime = '5';
    					flashvars.transitiontime = '1.5';
    					flashvars.transition = 'KenBurns';
    					flashvars.transitionease = 'CubicEaseOut';
    					flashvars.autoplay = 'on';
    					flashvars.showcontrols = 'on';
    					flashvars.showtext = 'on';
    					flashvars.shuffle = 'on';
    					flashvars.scale = 'noBorder';
    
    					var params = {};
    					params.allowFullScreen = 'true';
    					//params.wmode = 'transparent';
    
    					swfobject.embedSWF ('http://adi.zice.ro/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/showtime.swf', 'st_2', '480', '320', '9.0.0', false, flashvars, params);
    				</script>
    
    				<div class='showtime' id='st_2'>
    				</div>

    I guess something is being stripped :-(

  17. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    hello ovidiu, sorry, for the late reply... it is not being stripped, this last div is for the alternative content, e.g. no flash player.
    However, I found the problem is that for some reason the display property for the script on your site is set to none.
    Replace the content of /showtime /showtime.class.php with this: (will be fixed in next release)

    <?php
    
    class wordpress_showtime_slideshow {
    	var $gid = 0;
    
    	function wp_gallery_st_shortcut($attr, $type) {
    		global $post;
    		global $wp_version;
    		global $stOptions;
    
    		$attributes = $attr;
    
    		if ( $type )
    			$slide = 1;
    		else
    			$slide = 0;
    
    		$height = get_option( 'st_height' );
    		$width = get_option( 'st_width' );
    		$transition = get_option( 'st_transition' );
    		$transitiontime = get_option( 'st_transitiontime' );
    		$transitionease = get_option( 'st_easeFunc' ).get_option( 'st_ease' );
    		$rotationtime = get_option( 'st_rotatetime' );
    
    		$showcontrols = get_option( 'st_showcontrols' );
    		$showtext = get_option( 'st_showtext' );
    		$autoplay = get_option( 'st_autoplay' );
    		$shuffle = get_option( 'st_shuffle' );
    		$scale = get_option( 'st_scalemode' );
    
    		extract(shortcode_atts(array(
    			'id'         		=> $post->ID,
    			'width'				=> $width,
    			'height'         	=> $height,
    			'rotationtime'		=> $rotationtime,
    			'transition'		=> $transition,
    			'transitiontime'	=> $transitiontime,
    			'transitionease'	=> $transitionease,
    			'autoplay'			=> $autoplay,
    			'showcontrols'		=> $showcontrols,
    			'showtext'			=> $showtext,
    			'shuffle'			=> $shuffle,
    			'scale'				=> $scale
    		), $attr));
    
    		$id = intval($id);
    
    		if ( function_exists( 'gallery_shortcode' ) ) {
    			$gallery = gallery_shortcode( $attributes );
    		}
    
    		$this->gid++;
    
    		if ( $slide )
    			$output = "
    			<div style='display:visible'>
    				<script type='text/javascript'>
    
    					var flashvars = {};
    					flashvars.xml = '" . plugins_url($path = $stOptions->_pluginSubfolderName . '/showtime/getxml.php') . "?id=$id';
    
    					flashvars.width = '$width';
    					flashvars.height = '$height';
    
    					flashvars.rotationtime = '$rotationtime';
    					flashvars.transitiontime = '$transitiontime';
    					flashvars.transition = '$transition';
    					flashvars.transitionease = '$transitionease';
    					flashvars.autoplay = '$autoplay';
    					flashvars.showcontrols = '$showcontrols';
    					flashvars.showtext = '$showtext';
    					flashvars.shuffle = '$shuffle';
    					flashvars.scale = '$scale';
    
    					var params = {};
    					params.allowFullScreen = 'true';
    					//params.wmode = 'transparent';
    
    					var attributes = {};
    					attributes.styleclass = 'showtime';
    
    					swfobject.embedSWF ('" . plugins_url($path = $stOptions->_pluginSubfolderName . '/showtime/showtime.swf') . "', 'st_" . $this->gid . "', '$width', '$height', '9.0.0', false, flashvars, params, attributes);
    				</script>
    
    				<!-- alternative content -->
    				<div id='st_" . $this->gid . "'>$gallery</div>
    
    			</div>
    			\n";
    		else
    			$output = "<div class='gallery' id='gallery_" . $this->gid . "'>
    							$gallery
    						</div>
    					\n";
    
    		return $output;
    	}
    
    	function checkOn( $string ) {
    
    		if ( $string == "on" || $string == "true" || $string == "yes" ) {
    			return "true";
    		} else {
    			return "false";
    		}
    
    	}
    
    	function addToHeader() {
    		global $stOptions;
    		wp_enqueue_script( 'swfobject', plugins_url($path = $stOptions->_pluginSubfolderName . '/showtime/swfobject/swfobject.js'), false, '2.2' );
    	}
    
    	function encode($x) {
    	    return base64_encode(rawurlencode($x));
    	}
    
    	function wp_gallery_st_own_shortcut($attr) {
    		return $this->wp_gallery_st_shortcut($attr, 1);
    	}
    
    }
    
    ?>
  18. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    hmmm,... just replaced that file with above code, don't see any changes

  19. youtag
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    hmm, i was looking in the wrong place. just realized that the swfobject script does not get loaded in your header. Which version of WP are you using? did you try changing your Theme?

  20. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    its wpmu 2.8.4 and i just changed the theme.doesn't change a thing :-(

  21. kam.abbott
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I love what this plugin has the potential to do, but I’m having an odd problem that I cant seem to figure out.

    The plugin is installed and images are displaying, but they are all very blurry and pixelated. The originals are just fine, at 1024 wide (have also tried lower and higher resolutions). The plugin quality setting is set for high.

    Any suggestions?

    The website (in its testing location) is located at:

    http://www.greencauldron.org/wordpress

    Thanks!

    Kam.

  22. tpouzaud
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hello,
    I was using this plugin on WPMU without any problem until the update in 2.9.1.1

    Now as a superadmin we can activate the plugin for all the blogs, but blog's admin can't do it by themselves. The plugin link doesn't appear in the plugin control panel ?

    Any idea ?

    PS : forgive my english i'm a poor little french guy lost on an english forum.. ;-)

  23. deliwasista
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    @kam.abbott -

    images are displaying, but they are all very blurry and pixelated.
    not sure if this helps but I had the same issue and corrected it by selecting setting "exact fit"..

    I've got a question. How do you set the first picture? Im keen for one photo to display first.. but cant seem to figure out how or where to specify which photo shows.. any ideas?

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