Flash Slideshow for pods, etc.
I’ve made a simple slide show in flash to work with the pods plugin for wordpress. In principle, you can use the slide show in any situation, because it uses a ‘magic’ string to get the images, links etc it needs to load.
The compiled .swf is just under 4kB and uses a config_slideshow.txt file to get itself started.
The slideshow.swf looks for config_slideshow.txt in the same directory (as itself) and loads some configuration variables from it. (Don’t rename slideshow.swf or config_slideshow.txt.) The config_slideshow.txt will look like this:
The format for the magic string the slideshow will read is:
title of image2^http://my domain.com/path_to_image2.jpg.gif.png.bmp^http://link when you click the linkText^
image description text in simple html or txt#<br>
etc…
You can see the magic string uses carrots “^” and “#<br>” to break into usable data. The order of the elements in the magic strings is important, but you may leave an element blank if you like: “^^”
Here is an example with intentional missing images to show how errors are handled:
Here are the files:
Flash slideshow files and source
Still to do:
back/forward buttons. + configure in config_slideshow.txt file.
Fullscreen button. + on/off in config_slideshow.txt file.
Play music .mp3 or midi with the slideshow. +config_slideshow.txt file controlled.
