This slide show program has been tested to work in Netscape 3.04. I don't
know if it will work on the new Internet Explorer, since it failed to work
in 3.0 of IE.
Larry's Slide Show is a quick and easy way for you to make a slide show on your computer. You can use it to have a slide show of your family pictures, let your children make a slide show story, or make a display for a computer store; there are many other uses. Each slide displays a gif or jpg image, along with text and an optional sound or midi file. You can either manually go through the slides, or have preset times that the slides will change at. It's very easy to use.
The program is fully functional. If you find it useful, you are asked to send in $5 as a way of saying thank you. Click here for details.
Place all your wav, midi, gif, and jpg files along with slides.htm, slides1.htm, slides2.htm, slidelib.js, and slides.js into one directory. You can create a separate directory for each of your slide shows.
Open the file slides.js in your text editor, such as Notepad or Wordpad.
You set up your slides. Each slide has it's own line that looks like:
slides[number]= new slide("image file","text","sound file",time to next slide)
Note that you need to have the quotation marks around all the items except for the time to next slide.
You start your slide numbers at 1. And keep incrementing the number for each slide. If you don't want to have a value for a picture, text, or sound file, give the value as "". If you don't want to have a time to next slide value, you can just leave it out.
So to display just an image as slide 1, you would write:
slides[1]= new slide("myimage.jpg","","")
When using text that has a " or ' or \ you need to place a \ in front of
them.
Examples are:
\" \' \\ .
So to display the text I'm, you'd write I\'m.
slides[1]=new slide("","I\'m a programmer","")
This will display a slide with no image, and no sound file, but will display
the text:
I'm a programmer.
When you want to view the slide show, you should not open the file by typing the dir into location and then clicking on the slides.htm file; this causes problems. Open up slides.htm from the Open in Browser option Ctrl-O. Otherwise you can double click the file in Windows Explorer.
Pressing Next will go to the next slide, pressing Previous will go to the previous slide. They will wrap around, so if you are at the end and press next, you will be at slide 1.
If you want to skip ahead in the slide show, enter in the slide number and press Go to.
Pressing Start Animation will go through the slides pausing at each slide for it's "time to next slide" time value. When it reaches the end, it will cycle though them again and again, until you press Stop Animation.
To stop the animated slide show, press Stop Animation.
You can edit the title of slides.htm to be the title of your slides, if you
wish. Just replace:
Larry's Slide Show in
<TITLE>Larry's Slide Show</TITLE>
with your own title.
A sample slides.js file might look like:7
slides[1]= new slide("me.jpg","It\'s me","hi-there.wav",7)
slides[2]= new slide("hello.jpg","Hello there","",2)
slides[3]= new slide("world.gif","The planet earth","",3)
You can also get more space for the slides, by dragging the frame divider up. Move the mouse over the divider until the mouse turns to a double arrow pointer. Then click and hold the left mouse button down and drag the divider up.
You can get even more room, by removing the location, toolbar, and directory buttons. Choose Options, and then go to any of those items that are checked and select them to remove the check. You can select those items again to make them checked and thereby restoring them.
If you enjoy this program, you are encouraged to send in $5 as a thank you to the author.
Please send $5 US funds as cash, or a check or money order payable to Lawrence
Goetz.
If you are in another country and can not send US funds, then send an approximate
amount in your local currency as cash.
Include your e-mail address as well.
Mail to:
Larry's Slide Show
Lawrence Goetz
3263 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
USA
Thank you.
Lawrence Goetz