CoinSlider deactivated?

Have Xara discontinued coinSlider. Don't see any widgets as an option for loading anymore nor do I see anything in the Design Gallery but here is my problem with my coin sldier (http://www.pigsear.org.uk/). I replaced a single photo (one of five in the coinSlider) with another but when viewed the old photo is no longer there but nor is the new one. The new photo also does not appear in the index_html_files folder. Neither does the old photo. None of the files with coinslider in its name with the exception of xr_files.txt have been updated. I have saved the file even exiting it and choosing SAVE but no joy.

Windows 10 Pro X coinSliderNonav_v8_28

Emmo, it is still around.
It is under Photo Slideshows and Galleries as the Tile Slideshow 2 Widget.

As you have an old site, you have probably fallen foul of the jQuery Library update Xara made without telling anyone.

Open an instance of the newer Tile Slideshow 2 Widget (CoinSlider) onto the same page as the ailing one then just delete it.
This update the code and all should work.

Xara's CoinSlider version is 8.10, not 8.28.

Acorn

Thanks Acorn but I appear to have fallen at the first hurdle. I cannot find Photo Slideshows and it is not in Galleries nor can I find Tile Slideshow 2 Widget anywhere. My CoinSlider shows the file as coinSliderNonav_v8_28 if that helps. I notice that all the clipart files have also dissappeared though they are in my Program folder.

However, looking at my Designer Pro 11 program in the Designs Gallery there is a Page Elements and Widgets folder and within that a Photo Slideshows & Galleries (widgets) folder and therein is the Tile Slideshow 2 Widget. I suppose it may be possible to create a new Coinslder and paste it into the Pro X 17 file?

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However, looking at my Designer Pro 11 program in the Designs Gallery there is a Page Elements and Widgets folder and within that a Photo Slideshows & Galleries (widgets) folder and therein is the Tile Slideshow 2 Widget. I suppose it may be possible to create a new Coinslder and paste it into the Pro X 17 file?

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Emmo, that might work. As you mention XDPXv17, can I assume you are out of cover? I think v17 is too early for the jQuery update I mentioned. That might be why you don't see it - because you never downloaded it in v17 at any point.

You can link from v17 to v11's assets. Use the Local Designs gallery > Disc designs button and link to C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Xara\XtremePro\11\Cache\designs\eng .

Or simply, open v11, add the slider then copy & paste to v17 and do the assembly there.

Do update your TG record so you don't get confusing information on a version you don't have.

If none of this works, I am sure Xara won't mind if a copy of the v17 Widget was passed to you. It never acts on the Posts so by ignoring this once, its silence can be taken as approval!

Acorn

Here is the version : Attachment 131466 - uses the latest jQuery 3.6; just drop the widget on your page and retest; if all works just delete it.

Hope it helps,

Gary

Thanks Gary. I have tried dropping the widget onto my page but without success. I need to spend more time on it.

Acorn: You are right I am out of cover. I have updated my TG record. I tried to link my assets to V11 and they wanted me to create an index but when I did they couldn't find any suitable files to add to the index for the specified folder. I have tried to open v11, add the slider then copy & paste to v17 and do the assembly there but so far without any luck. I will keep trying.

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Thanks Gary. I have tried dropping the widget onto my page but without success. I need to spend more time on it.

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Emmo, I can see the slider working on your site, but it is searching for a missing image. As you only have 4/5 slides; just add the slides to a Xara file in the order you want them to appear and I will check them here for you.

Gary

Gary, I have edited the coinslider file and although there are five pictures only four appear when updated or previewing the current web page. I even deleted two pictures (one and four) and replaced them but only one is saved.

Emmo, OK some questions and a suggestion: I am assuming we are talking about the slider on your Home page and not the same format Tile Slideshow 2 sliders you have on the other tabs such as Pub News? The other sliders seem to be working correctly?

1. If true, you have at least one other copy of the v17 Tile Slideshow 2 that works?

2. If true, copy and paste one your working Tile Slideshow 2 widgets to a separate document and check that it works as expected.

3. If true, copy and paste your new photos to the first slide in the widget; they will then be in the Bitmap gallery; if true just delete them from the first slide (don't bother with add and replace photos options).

4. Now drag your new photos from the Bitmap Gallery, or those that you want to replace over the current photos.

5. Preview to check that is what you were expecting to see.

6. If true, delete the Tile Slideshow 2 widget from the Home page and (copy) and paste the widget from your new Xara document.

7. All should be well, but should all this fail to work correctly, just post a reply with the images in a Xara document here, together with the offending widget.

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(i) Xara switched to using jQuery 3.6 when it released Pro v18.0, so I doubt my version of the v18 widget will work in v17 without separately loading JQuery3.6.
(ii) Where you see coinSliderNonav_v8_nn in the tab, 'nn' is not a version number - rather strangely it refers to each time you add or copy the widget into a document when it increments 'nn'+1

Gary

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Originally Posted by Initiostar

Emmo, OK some questions and a suggestion: I am assuming we are talking about the slider on your Home page and not the same format Tile Slideshow 2 sliders you have on the other tabs such as Pub News? The other sliders seem to be working correctly?

1. If true, you have at least one other copy of the v17 Tile Slideshow 2 that works?

2. If true, copy and paste one your working Tile Slideshow 2 widgets to a separate document and check that it works as expected.

3. If true, drag and drop your new photos on to the first slide in the widget, but do no cover the slide; choose Add Photos.

4. Now drag your new photos from the Bitmap Gallery, or those that you want to replace over the current photos. When the Photos are in the the Bitmap Gallery, those added to the first slide can then be deleted.

5. Preview to check that is what you were expecting to see.

6. If true, delete the Tile Slideshow 2 widget from the Home page and (copy) and paste the widget from your new Xara document.

7. All should be well, but should all this fail to work correctly, just post a reply with the images in a Xara document here, together with the offending widget.

Footnote:
(i) Xara switched to using jQuery 3.6 when it released Pro v18.0, so I doubt my version of the v18 widget will work in v17 without separately loading JQuery3.6.
(ii) Where you see coinSliderNonav_v8_nn in the tab, 'nn' is not a version number - rather strangely it refers to each time you add or copy the widget into a document when it increments 'nn'+1

Gary

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Emmo, edited step 3.

To me it looks as if you might have lost the names at the image inside of the widget. Edit the widget, select the image that is not displaying and open the names dialog. It should look like this:
Attachment 131513

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To me it looks as if you might have lost the names at the image inside of the widget. Edit the widget, select the image that is not displaying and open the names dialog. It should look like this:
Attachment 131513

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Well spotted siran.

Acorn

I wasn't aware of any coinslider other than the one on the index page. I have tried copying the one on the Pub News page to a new document and changing all the photos via Add Photo but when viewed all I get is the first photo.

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Originally Posted by Emmo

I wasn't aware of any coinslider other than the one on the index page. I have tried copying the one on the Pub News page to a new document and changing all the photos via Add Photo but when viewed all I get is the first photo.

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Emmo, just assume you have mangled the settings at some point.

Open the Widget,
Click open Utilities > Names.
Now Ctrl+click on all of your images.
If the Names do not appear as siron has flagged ten you need to click on the Apply name dropdown, pick any of the missing parameters and then click the Add button.
Restore all the missing parameters.
Click the Widget and save when asked.

As it is only 5 images, upload them here and one of use will build a new drop-in replacement.

Acorn

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Gary, I have edited the coinslider file and although there are five pictures only four appear when updated or previewing the current web page. I even deleted two pictures (one and four) and replaced them but only one is saved.

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Emmo, you have 9 sliders on your website; just tab through your Navbar and you will see they all look very similar. I'm guessing here, but I think the original design idea would have been to have the same header/ slider on each page? They could have been repeated or copied and pasted, but changing one of them will not, as far as I can tell, have changed the others in your design.

I would take your Home slider for starters and check EACH image has the Names applied as suggested by Siran and Acorn (in the above posts). Getting one slider working as expected would be a good start; thereafter there are several different options for keeping them in sync.

Easy to recreate your slider if necessary, with your chosen images, but as you are on v17 there might be an additional step to work around the jQuery upgrade.

Gary

This is how it went after looking at the names of the five photos: Slide one my naming. Slide two my renaming plus autorenaming, photoreplace, WTag:Link:Link, WTag:scaled:image, Slide three ditto Slide four just my naming. Slide five ditto. When viewed on line slide four has been slow. The time taken to go to slide one instead of slide five would appear to indicate it is looking for slide five.

I duplicated slide two and added a photo using Replace photo from file. It then showed five slides instead of six with slide six (was five) missing. I deleted slide six and duplicated slide five and added a new photo and that worked.

I have made the slideshow on the index page repeat on all pages. I have tried to load various slideshows in my Pro X11 into a new document. There appear to be several options when pasting it into Pro X17 and the one that works is XarX Doucment as you can see here http://www.pigsear.org.uk/ but only thanks to all your help.

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I have made the slideshow on the index page repeat on all pages.

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Emmo, that's not quite what I see when I look at the site and tab through the pages. The index page is working with 5 images, but the other 8 copies have what I think is the old slider (though they do each show 5 images correctly). If you want them the same as the index, you may have to delete the old sliders from each of the pages (8 of them) and replace them with your new slider. However you have some pages where the slider is not designed to appear, so rather than have it repeat on all pages, I'd simply copy and paste the index copy to the other 8 pages.

Even with repeat on all pages set, changing one copy does not change any others; each paste also creates a new id.

But it does all work now :D

Gary

BTW there is at least way of having one copy update all other copies e.g. https://initiostar.co.uk/demo/repeatWidget/. But as you have it working now probably best to keep it that way.

I think I may have sorted it. I deleted all other pages as you suggested then used the one on the index page to repeat on all pages. Then I found that a whole page (pigs ear festival) was missing. I have added it back so should be all right now. Thank you all for your help.

I have moved this to Web Design Chat unless this is not the correct forum.