How to view Hippo Animatorslideshow in Web Designer preview?

[The Balt]

I am slowly learning my way around Web Designer and seems the next phase of my learning curve now has landed me at placeholder objects.

Having created an animated slideshow in Hippo Animator I would like to no have it display in the "Preview Current Web Page" of Web Designer 9 Premium.

Creating a placeholder and pasting the html link that Hippo generates in the HTML code (body) box doesn't result in the animation appearing in the web page preview, so I am guessing that I need to copy the Hippo media to a specific location for the animation to appear and modify the placeholder link to suit.

Question is, where would that location be and how do I go about getting my animation to show?

Your help would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

I have not used Hippo, but if it is anything like Visual Slideshow, it generates its own folder containing things referenced in the HTML script.

In the case of Visual Slideshow, there are two folders, Engine and Data that have to be in the root directory of the published page/site.

Does this ring any bells?

[The Balt]

Yes, Hippo creates a folder for the animation media as well as a html file.

My problem is in the design phase before I publish the site up to the cloud. When I click on the "Preview in Browser" as I design a site page I would like to see the animation and how it fits in with the overall look. I assume that Xara makes some temp files somewhere in order for the preview to work and that I would need to have the animation media files residing in that same temporary path.

As an example, if I have saved the Hippo animation files to a desktop folder and then place the HTML code

<img src="C:/Users/Desktop/WebSite%20Graphics/Sliders/introslide.html" />

in the body field of a placeholder I get a broken link "X" where the animation should be when I preview the page.

Thanks for your quick response BTW!