KB: Making a Slideshow

[Desmond]

Making a Slideshow

Document ID: IR10049

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The information in this article applies to:

• AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to make a slideshow

DISCUSSION

The purpose of a slideshow is to display images at a predetermined rate. In AutoPlay Media studio 5.0, this is accomplished by creating a project with one page per image you wish to display.

1. On every page in your project, create one image object containing the appropriate image.
   
   
2. Create the following action in the On Show event of every page in your project:
   
   Page.StartTimer(5000); --fires the timer once every 5 seconds.
   
   
3. Create the following action in the On Timer event of every page in your project:
   
   Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
   
   The only page that does not have this action is the last page, because there are no more pages to jump to.
   
   
4. Create the following action in the On Show event of your last page:
   
   Page.StopTimer(); --stops the timer

The On Timer and On Show events are found by right-clicking on a blank space on the page and choosing Actions.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information please see the following topics in the AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 help file:

• Program Reference | Actions | Page | Page.StartTimer
• Program Reference | Actions | Page | Page.StartTimer
• Program Reference | Actions | Page | Page.Navigate

KEYWORDS: AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0, Actions, Page, Jump, Slideshow

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Last reviewed: September 26, 2003
Copyright © 2003 Indigo Rose Corporation. All rights reserved.

[George Steinman]

As a Newbie, I have successfully previewed and published a crude slideshow
demo as recommended in this thread. My effort has an opening and closing page with a button action as described in the Speedy Training disc shipped with my 5.0 Standard. I am using a trial of the 5.0 Professional as it has a timer.

When I duplicate the middle pages to expand the slideshoe to 10 pages, my
Published product remains at 5 pages only. What am I overlooking?

Newbie

[George Steinman]

Attachments for 10 page slideshow.
Drag in buttons and .png file.

GS

[TJ_Tigger]

George, to help with the graphics and buttons for a project, you can export the project to a single file that can then be opened in AMS. To do this click on File->Export Project...

[George Steinman]

I"m still two loads shy> My Manage Attachments dialogue box will
identify the .apz .apt project file, but I cannot get either of them to
upload. The Wait sign appears in each instance for 50-70 seconds before
the failure is identified.

Is there hope?

GS

[Intrigued]

Have you tried to manually .zip the file?

[George Steinman]

With thanks to all, zip efforts in my hands have not succeeded.
I am working with a new build from scratch and will hope to have a
preview soon.

GS

[Protoplasm]

Hello,
I looked through the tutorials, and help, but maybe I just missed it but I have completed my slideshow for publication, how do I publish for emailing, and what total project file size limitations should I be concerned with in order to email the entire slideshow?

Thanks,
Protoplasm

[Protoplasm]

Originally Posted by Protoplasm

Hello,
I looked through the tutorials, and help, but maybe I just missed it but I have completed my slideshow for publication, how do I publish for emailing, and what total project file size limitations should I be concerned with in order to email the entire slideshow?

Thanks,
Protoplasm

Ok, it's official, I am a complete and utter noob. I had to stop being so lazy and actually review the tutorials to realize this though