| Q |
How does Slide Show work ? |
| A |
No tricks, No Gimmicks,
No Plugins. No Special consideration required, it's all done
using Javascript, DHTML, tables, Mouseovers and Common sense.
The goal of Slide Show was to provide a low tech solution to a
high tech problem - get 3D content on the web in a 2D format viewable
by the most common internet browsers. Make it so that plugins are NOT required,
Java is NOT required, Server side scripting is NOT required, Special players are NOT
required any custom DLL or executables are NOT required and then make it so that it can be
maintained using any standard text editor - that was the goal.
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| Q |
What do you mean by "Preload" Images ? |
| A |
When the site initially loads it posts just 1 of many image
files, we did this to reduce site load time. Once the initial
site is loaded we then go back and load all supporting image files.
The "preload" link does this same thing.
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| Q |
Where did you get the pictures. |
| A |
They are computer generated.
For more info please visit Discreet's 3ds
max web site. |
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| Q |
The little pointer
thing doesn't rotate about the center of the image - what is up with that. |
| A |
We measure and place
objects on your screen relative to the available area. Most of the
time our stepper code works without a problem but there may be times
when we simply could or did not anticipate the end user system requirement.
For that we apologize. Slide Show scripts are designed to work on PC's running
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Netscapes 4+ & 6.0 series browsers and AOL's 6.0 browser. |
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| Q |
The little pointer
thing is going up and down on the screen but on some other pages it goes round and round - why? |
| A |
This is an indicator
of "you" relative to displayed image ( screen-left
). Sometimes we'll orbit about an object and ask the pointer
to indicate that on the screen. For the Boeing
Apache Heliocopter page we needed a vertical ( or near it
) tracking path and so constrained the pointer movement to that. |
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| Q |
I see that you use JPEG pictures in your demonstrations, can Side Show use
GIF files ? |
| A |
Yes. While version I of Slide Show does not do it version II
will include the ability to mix file types. What this means to the developer is that they can embed an
animated GIF in a series of JPEG images outputting to the end user the optimized nature of JPEG and the
animation characteristic of GIF's ( animated sequencer not included ). |
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| Q |
Zoom - can Slide Show zoom in. |
| A |
To an extent it can. We set a zoom factor at design time
( typically 2x ) and attach that to the Slide Show sliderbar "click" event. When you see a image
you like just left-click. This will launch a popup window complete with image, image-ID, zoom factor and a
menu bar. |
