File Name: Flash Image and Video Rotator
File Submitter: Enkidu
File Submitted: 16 Sep 2011
File Updated: 07 Nov 2011
File Category: IP.Content Blocks

With this block you can create an amazing flash based 3D image and video rotator. The block is accompanied by more than 50 settings that allow you to fully customize the look and feel of the rotator from the ground up. and yes! I did say: video rotator! not only you can slide images but videos too!

DEMO
Enkidu image and video rotator

Interested? let's talk features:

1- More than 50 settings to control the width, height, transparency, colours, transitions, slide display time, transition speed, autoplay, and many more!
2- Uses IP.Content framework so you can parse the block everywhere you like! (provided that IP.board supports that)
3- An alternative text to display to visitors who don't have flash player or java enabled. You can use that to provide alternative contents to search engine spiders too.
4- Slide up to 4 images and 1 video. Although you can manually add more (refer to the documentation included)
5- control each slide title, text, and URL. You can even define CSS tags to further customize the look and feel of the text displayed when users click on info.
6- NEW define two transition effects. Each has 6 fully customizable settings for you to tweak to your liking.

Limitations
No support for right to left languages.


Please note that this mod cannot be installed on IPS hosted communities due to their guidelines which doesn't allow the installation of third party software.

please note: this block is build upon the piecemaker2 image rotator which is an open source project and cannot be offered for sale. what you're paying for here is the included IP.board settings, the php xml setting file, and the IP.Content block. The small amount you pay here will allow me to continue support and develop this plugin if it attracted enough attention.

thanks

Enjoy!

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Nice...can we use that without IP Content apps?

regards

bosss

in theory, yes. but you will need to manually include the code of the block in where you want it to appear :)

Thanks for reply...will use this block (maybe) on my home page (unreal portal) ...now use frontpage sladeshow and works fine!

regards

bosss

intriguing, may look into in this soon thanks.

intriguing, may look into in this soon thanks.

let me know how it turns out :)

thanks

Installed it following directions but it just has a blank space on my content page.

most likely, you haven't specified the source image location correctly. can you post a link to see what's happening?

Yup that was it. Thanks m8.

Just one more small things maybe you can help me with.

I am trying to add it above my article section but it shoves my entire right side block off the page no matter how small I set it as.

http://worldofblizzard.com/

to solve that, open your block (ACP, IPC, and then block), find:

 swfobject.embedSWF('{$this->settings['public_dir']}flash/piecemaker.swf', 'piecemaker', '1000', '600', '10', null, flashvars,    

      params, null);

the 1000 is the width of the flash player, whereas the 600 is its height. change those to your liking :smile:

seems that I missed those values. I will update the block this weekend to make it automatic :smile:

Installed it following directions but it just has a blank space on my content page.

most likely, you haven't specified the source image location correctly. can you post a link to see what's happening?

Still got blank space.

Sorry for that. Can you show me a link to see what's happening?

Sorry I can't show it to you live. I never touch my live forum until it works locally :(

piecemakerXML.php suppose to be uploaded into the root directory?

It might be my IP.B/C since locally I use 3.2 beta. I might try it on my live forum, today (3.2.2).

Make sure you link it to image correctly. Something I was doing wrong was not adding the / in front of forums.

/forums/public/image/yourimage.jpg

Sorry I can't show it to you live. I never touch my live forum until it works locally :sad:

piecemakerXML.php suppose to be uploaded into the root directory?

It might be my IP.B/C since locally I use 3.2 beta. I might try it on my live forum, today (3.2.2).

OK fair enough.

1- create a test page and parse the block there and then PM me the link.
2- yes piecemakerXML.php should go to root or you could modify the block and tell it where exactly the piecemakerXML.php file is located

Okay that worked thank you, I was hot-linking to my pictures and that didn't work :sad:

That's okay though, at least it works now.
http://www.doaworld....es&folder=&id=5

glad to hear and see it's working

thank you :)

Any chance of having an option to manage from the frontend the images and links of the slides? I want my editors can change this.

Thank you,
Vitor

Hi Vitoreis

Would you like to elaborate on this suggestion? I'm not sure where to put that in the front-end

how can I reduce this gap? (DEMO)



how can you add more than 4 images?

to solve that, open your block (ACP, IPC, and then block), find:

swfobject.embedSWF('{$this->settings['public_dir']}flash/piecemaker.swf', 'piecemaker', '1000', '600', '10', null, flashvars,   

	  params, null);

the 1000 is the width of the flash player, whereas the 600 is its height. change those to your liking :smile:

seems that I missed those values. I will update the block this weekend to make it automatic :smile:

Very Thanks :huggles:

updated:

• added a fully customizable second transition effect.
• the flash object will now resize to what you defined in the settings.
• removed unnecessarily require_once
  

Hi Endeku,

A really impresive Add on...

Does it only works with flash? You know... what about iPads, iPhones and so... ? :nuke: :cry: