Comments on: Customizing Vertigo’s Slide.Show

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:15:05 +0000

@KD,

I added the changes directly to the SlideShow.js file. So, I am not sure what the release.bat file does. You could try doing that.

For the second, I wouldn’t recommend that because I think that clicking a slide advances to the next one already (right?) so you will be messing with that functionality. In any case, if you have to then you will need to look at the Xaml to see which element is representing the whole slide.

Sorry can’t help more, but I will have to open up the code and study it again to be of more help (and I have moved on from this project).

Cheers.

By: KD

KD — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:01:09 +0000

Sorry I’m new to this and kind of lost…

After we add in the text highlighted in red to the correct places, do we then run the Release.bat (located in the solution Items)? If so, when the batch file runs does it output the Slideshow.js to the Debug folder? or am i missing the newly compiled js?

one other thing, if I was wanting to make the whole slide clickable, what would I change? I am assuming its this.titleTextBlock.addEventListener to…?

Sorry for the questions and thanks in advance for your time =D

By: Xiao

Xiao — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:08:46 +0000

Tried few times, didn’t success.
I did pretty much the same except doing all these in the SlideImage class and replace titleTextBlock to image for assigning value to the element.

Any idea?

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:12:23 +0000

Yes, the code is from the Xaml element.

By: Xiao

Xiao — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:08:35 +0000

Sure. Just want to confirm that, the code you did, “this.titleTextBlock” is from the Xaml element, which has , right? If it is , then you need to use “this.titleTextBlock123″, correct?
Thank you.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:05:56 +0000

That looks right though I can’t be sure and I can’t tell surely without looking at the code. Please test this and let everyone know if it worked for you.

Thanks.

By: Xiao

Xiao — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:03:44 +0000

In the SlideImage class, the Xaml is assigned:
var xaml = ”;

My guessing is, I need to add:
this.SlideImage.addEventListener(”MouseLeftButtonDown”, SlideShow.createDelegate(this, this.onMouseLeftButtonDown));
this.SlideImage.Cursor = “Hand”;
at the end of constructor of SlideImage class. And do the rest like you did, correct?

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:55:55 +0000

In this case, you need to locate which Xaml Element is being used to display the image and add a click event handler to that element. I did not explore that idea because I didn’t need it.

By: Xiao

Xiao — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:54:30 +0000

Oh, yeah. But for my application, I am setting the slide show is automatically changing to the next image. And for each image, I want to link to different page. I try to use silverlight instead of flash. You see what I mean? Thanks

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:47:31 +0000

@Xiao, the reason I didn’t try to add links to the image is because it’s counter intuitive. You would expect the slideshow to proceed to the next slide when you click an image, instead of opening a link.

By: Xiao

Xiao — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:45:29 +0000

Do you think you can give some hits for adding link to the image? I am not good at javascript. Should I edit the SlideImage class or still stay with SlideDescription?
Thank you.

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By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:35:11 +0000

@will,

Thanks for the great tool and your comments Will…

By: Will

Will — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:24:41 +0000

Hi Vaibhav,

I was the project lead for Slide.Show. It’s nice to see people like yourself taking the time to show how you can customize Slide.Show. We took a lot of extra time to architect/comment the code in a way to easily add new functionality like this. Well done! Thanks!

-Will Allan
Sr. Software Engineer, Vertigo