Xara Slideshow Widget - Not Loading

Hi All

Just moving over from Serif WebPlus to Xara Web Designer Premium - (used to use Acorn Computers from "year dot" so Xara was a familiar name :D )

I am trying to use the Xara Slideshow Widget from the Design Gallery, but it just sits with a configuration page behind a "loading" circling icon and nothing happens. If I close it I get " Unable to find the HTML code for the Widget .... ".

Any ideas anyone?

I have played with most of the other slide show widgets on the Design Gallery [ Some are very clever & fancy :) ]
but all I want is straight forward slideshow with Captions and Thumbnails. They seem to do only one or the other :-O

I have tried adjusting page sizes in the slideshow HTMLs and adding text there and adding text on top of images, but all are ignored on saving the slideshow to the main page.
Is there a way of doing this, without editing the actual images to add captions?

Thanks

Welcome to TalkGraphics - I just imported the slideshow widget to make sure there was nothing wrong and it imported OK.

Have you purchased the product or are you using the trial version?

And this is always worth a try. Close Web Designer. Then right click on the program icon and select Run as Administrator. This will either solve the problem or it won't and there is no need to do it again.

Let us know.

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I am trying to use the Xara Slideshow Widget from the Design Gallery, but it just sits with a configuration page behind a "loading" circling icon and nothing happens. If I close it I get " Unable to find the HTML code for the Widget .... ".
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Thanks gwpriester
That did it - I got a request to log in and then it seems OK. Just about to play with it .
Thanks.

Hi

Thank you gwpriester.
Got the Xara Slideshow Widget working, but it is not what I am looking for.

I have played with most of the other slide show widgets on the Design Gallery [ Some are very clever & fancy ]
but all I want is straight forward slideshow with Captions and Thumbnails. They seem to do only one or the other.

I have tried adjusting page sizes in the slideshow HTMLs and adding text there and adding text on top of images, but all are ignored on saving the slideshow to the main page.
Is there a way of doing this, without editing the actual images to add captions?

An example of what I am looking for is here:
http://www.rowanburn.me.uk/shunting_layout.html
which is from my website using Serif WebPlus, it is one of their JavaScript designs.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Thank you

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Originally Posted by By The Burn

Hi

Thank you gwpriester.
Got the Xara Slideshow Widget working, but it is not what I am looking for.

I have played with most of the other slide show widgets on the Design Gallery [ Some are very clever & fancy ]
but all I want is straight forward slideshow with Captions and Thumbnails. They seem to do only one or the other.

I have tried adjusting page sizes in the slideshow HTMLs and adding text there and adding text on top of images, but all are ignored on saving the slideshow to the main page.
Is there a way of doing this, without editing the actual images to add captions?

An example of what I am looking for is here:
http://www.rowanburn.me.uk/shunting_layout.html
which is from my website using Serif WebPlus, it is one of their JavaScript designs.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Thank you

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You could simply use Xara's built-in Photo pop-up function (Web Properties > Image).

Acorn

Thanks for the suggestion Acorn, but I really want a slideshow :)
Best regards.

In the past I have used Visual Slideshow (you can find various versions with a Google search).

It is very flexible and can be brought into Web Designer via a placeholder (a simple object into which you can add code that gets added to your site when you publish).

It is a bit of a PITA to get it into Web Designer but if you like it I can give you the steps.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

In the past I have used Visual Slideshow (you can find various versions with a Google search).

It is very flexible and can be brought into Web Designer via a placeholder (a simple object into which you can add code that gets added to your site when you publish).

It is a bit of a PITA to get it into Web Designer but if you like it I can give you the steps.

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Thanks Gary
I will have a look at that.
Had found Pixedlic's Camera, but would not load and then noticed no updates since 2012 !!
Cheers
Gavin

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Originally Posted by By The Burn

Thanks for the suggestion Acorn, but I really want a slideshow :)
Best regards.

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But Gavin this does provide a slideshow: Show gallery browser controls.
I accept you probably want a slideshow that is not in a separate pop-up area.

Acorn

I agree with Acorn. Here I've used Smart photo grid 2 and added image pop-up features. I find your slider the thum-nails to be far to small.

DEMO

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

I agree with Acorn. Here I've used Smart photo grid 2 and added image pop-up features. I find your slider the thum-nails to be far to small.

DEMO

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Ahh !! OK I did not realise you could do that !
Thank you for your trouble in doing the demo.
I will have a play with that.
Still want captions though - wonder if they could pop-up too.
The other way I thought was to add the cation onto the actual image :think: - bit of a pain though.

Thank you all.
Gavin

Hi Egg & Acorn

Thank you both very much - Had a play with Image Pop-Up - Yes that will do nicely.
And it has Titles and Captions. Xara support never mentioned this !!
Going to have another play now.
Cheers
Gavin

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Originally Posted by By The Burn

Hi Egg & Acorn

Thank you both very much - Had a play with Image Pop-Up - Yes that will do nicely.
And it has Titles and Captions. Xara support never mentioned this !!
Going to have another play now.
Cheers
Gavin

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Had a good play with this.
Very clever =D>
- It even automatically continues as slide show between two smart grids on the same page.

I can see I will have to spend time reading all the Help File.
It is not obvious to a new comer what all the widgets do, when just looking at the design gallery.

Thanks again Egg & Acorn for pointing me to this technique.
Time for bed now. (:|

Cheers
Gavin

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Originally Posted by By The Burn

Had a good play with this.
Very clever =D>
- It even automatically continues as slide show between two smart grids on the same page.

I can see I will have to spend time reading all the Help File.
It is not obvious to a new comer what all the widgets do, when just looking at the design gallery.

Thanks again Egg & Acorn for pointing me to this technique.
Time for bed now. (:|

Cheers
Gavin

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Gavin, you are lucky that Egg contributed. I prefer pointing out the technique but Egg likes producing the example (with video).
Our mutual pleasure is the Aha! moment when the technique is "understood" and can be applied and developed.

Acorn

Good to hear it suits your purpose, but a world of warning, if you use it on a variant, then the image sequences get messed up. I don't think this has been fixed yet.

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Good to hear it suits your purpose, but a world of warning, if you use it on a variant, then the image sequences get messed up. I don't think this has been fixed yet.

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Aaahhhh!!! Thanks for the warning. Having yesterday finished converting my Model Rail Site to Xara, I had just tried to do a variant and thought I was going mad !!!
The variant is correct but the original main is all to pot - seems to go down in columns - sort of, instead of across in rows. !!!!

I presume Xara know about this.

Thanks Gavin

It's been reported but not sorted.