Wowslider - any other users?

Hi all was wondering if there were any other wow slider users here who may have encountered a problem that is driving me mad.

I have created a full screen slider in wow slider and have managed to get it to work on a blank web page as long as I use the stretch to fit setting on the widget.

When I then try and copy the widget into an existing web design the slider shows as full width but not full height.

I have tried every permutation of settings in wowslider and have also messed with the size of the placeholder in Xara with no success.

Any ideas please?

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Originally Posted by nobbyy

Hi all was wondering if there were any other wow slider users here who may have encountered a problem that is driving me mad.
I have created a full screen slider in wow slider and have managed to get it to work on a blank web page as long as I use the stretch to fit setting on the widget.
When I then try and copy the widget into an existing web design the slider shows as full width but not full height.
I have tried every permutation of settings in wowslider and have also messed with the size of the placeholder in Xara with no success.
Any ideas please?

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Can you provide the Placeholder code?

Under General Settings (Slider properties) in WOWSlider, have you selected Slider layout > Full width?

Acorn

Hi Acorn - thanks for the quick response.

Apologies -when I said that I used the 'stretch to fit' setting in Xara I meant the 'full width' setting.

Which part of the placeholder code would you like = head or body or both?

I have had a look at the code there and it does not contain any info re size of placement - I think that they are in a set folders labelled 'engine' that has to be FTP'd to the hosting.

Is there a full width setting for the slider? Or is this Xara's stretch to fit? And if it is the slider setting then maybe this is causing a conflict with Xara's stretch to fit.

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Originally Posted by nobbyy

Hi Acorn - thanks for the quick response.
Apologies -when I said that I used the 'stretch to fit' setting in Xara I meant the 'full width' setting.
Which part of the placeholder code would you like = head or body or both?
I have had a look at the code there and it does not contain any info re size of placement - I think that they are in a set folders labelled 'engine' that has to be FTP'd to the hosting.

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As Gary and I then said, in WOWSlider, have you set the display to Full width?

Acorn

Afternoon both

I have tried every permutation of the Wowslider full screen and the Xara stretch - if I dont have the Xara stretch enabled then the Wowslider full width and full page settings dont seem to do anything when I import the slider.

As mentioned in my initial post what I cant understand is that if I start with a brand new blank web page - import a full screen wowslider and use the Xara stretch to fit function it works - yet if I then import exactly the same slideshow into an existing site the slideshow does show full width but not full height.

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Originally Posted by nobbyy

Afternoon both
I have tried every permutation of the Wowslider full screen and the Xara stretch - if I dont have the Xara stretch enabled then the Wowslider full width and full page settings dont seem to do anything when I import the slider.
As mentioned in my initial post what I cant understand is that if I start with a brand new blank web page - import a full screen wowslider and use the Xara stretch to fit function it works - yet if I then import exactly the same slideshow into an existing site the slideshow does show full width but not full height.

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nobbyy, appreciate what you first said.
It could be you have a Supersite for the target and WOWSlider and it and Xara in conflict.
I was tried to eliminate the obvious.

Acorn

Hi Acorn

Both the blank site and the existing site that I am importing the wowlsider into are conventional (non supersite), so I agree that there must be some kind of conflict, but I am running out of ideas.

How are you adding the WOW Slider to your site? And have you tried bringing it to the top (Arrange > Bring to Front)?

I am adding the wowlsider script to a placeholder - updating both head and body and then transferring the wow slider 'data' and 'engine' folders to the site root directory by FTP.

Through experimenting further it would appear that on an existing site that the wowslider full width and full screen options do not work and you need to use the Xara full width stretch option for the slideshow to be full width but I cannot get it do display full screen on an existing site design - only on an absolutely empty new site.

Nobbyy - I am not sure what product you are using but the newer versions that have the Content Catalog (Insert menu) offer an updated Xara Slideshow widget that might do what you are trying to do.

gwpriester - thanks for the response, but non of those options allow me to achieve a full screen slideshow.

As per one of my other threads I am also concerned as to the Xara widget continuing to work when the software license has expired.

As per my earlier message the real frustration is that I can get the full screen wowlsider to work in a new website page but cant get it to work in an existing site.

I think that I will raise a support ticket, but don't hold out much hope.