Active Slideshow Pro 1.5 Manual

Create dazzling multimedia presentations, slideshows and banners with Active Slideshow Pro. This extension builds on the success of Active Slideshow and gives you new spectacular effects and optimal control over your slides, texts, transitions and sounds.

Active Slideshow Pro is completely rebuild and packed with new features. Among the features are amazing transition effects. Easing will give you full motion control on your transitions. And you can spice up your slideshow with time triggered texts and sound effects per slide.

The zoom and pan effects of Ken Burns are fully controllable. The Ken Burns effect can be combined with other transition effects. The flow of the effects can be controlled with easing and allows effects like accelerated and elastic movements. A new interface in Dreamweaver gives you full control of all the options.

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Editing the Slideshow

In this chapter we're going to edit the Properties of the slideshow using the Property inspector of Dreamweaver. Click on the Flash object in the design view to display the Properties of the slideshow. Below is a screenshot of the Property inspector.

The name of the XML file is displayed at the left side of the screen, this is also the Flash ID name.

You can view your changes by pressing the preview button;

Press the Edit Advanced button to open the command menu of Active Slideshow Pro.

You can also change the width and height of your album dynamically by changing the width and height fields;

Bg Color let's you change the background color.

Use the Wmode to set the window options, window is default, opaque is a great option if you want to put the slideshow above another layer (for instance if you want to create a DHTML menu). Transparent sets the alpha of the background to zero (fully transparent).

If you want to repeat your slideshow after it's completed, please check the Loop Slideshow option.

You can also change the music that is plays during the slideshow by changing the name of the Bg Music Property. You can adjust the Volume settings and the Repeat option to make your song loop or not. The Streaming option determines if the player should play your music while loading data.

The interactivity options enable you to place a link on your slideshow. The On Click enables you to refer to a link after the user has clicked on the slideshow. The After GoTo enables you to go to a link after the slideshow is finished. Note: This option is only enabled when the Loop Slideshow option is disabled. You can choose the file that you want to link to by selecting the Browse… button. You can choose the target in the dropdown behind the Browse… button.

This concludes our tutorial. We've shown you how to use our extension and we hope you'll enjoy it!