Help with Slideshow

[kasio69]

Hi Group,

i'm looking for some help with a slideshow control. i created a slideshow: SlideShow1 and added 10 pictures. i would like to be able to set a paragraph with a text that describes the pictures as it shows up.

Any suggestions? i'm not a programmer and any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[holtgrewe]

One way to do this would be to have a corresponding paragraph object for each Image.
Text files may be a better approach since maintenance to the description could be done externally from AMS7.

I've attached a very simple example of a slide show object with associated paragraph objects.
It would be best to number the images to correspond to the paragraph numbers, easy management. (Image1 / paragraph1)

The next button controls the setting of paragraph visibility. If you don't want to click a button, there is an event in the Slideshow object (On Slide Changed) which could be used for automatic rolling of Paragraphs with the Images.

hope this gives you some ideas.

[yosik]

Using a textfile, you can put the description of each image in a separate line (very important!), then under the onShow even of the Page, put the following:

tbl_Desc = TextFile.ReadToTable("yourDescriptionfile.txt");

Then, under the OnSlideChanged event of your SlideShow Object, put the following:

Paragrah.SetText("YourParagraphObject", tbl_Desc[e_Index]);

That would insert the matching description line from the table into your paragraph object.

Hope that helps

Yossi

[kasio69]

Thank you very much for the reply. I tried both methods Holtgrewe's and Yosik's both work at least i managed that. Yosik i end up using your method it's exactly what i was looking for!

Thanks again for the help!