Slideshows in iRev

[Jim Ault]

> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="10">

could be modified to pass a control parameter with each refresh of the  
same page.
Use the form of the CONTENT parameter to include the same url of the  
page + one param

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=slideShowParams.irev? 
pImageNum =nextImgNumber">

-1- assume this page is "http://coolAccount.on-rev.com/slideShowParams.irev
-2- the following irev code is added to the slideShowParams.irev  
document

<?rev
#Jacque's lists of copyrighted images (7)
         get "vinca.jpg thistleFluff.jpg pinkHoneysuckle2.jpg"
         get IT && "milkweed2.jpg lamiumClose2.jpg cosmos2.jpg  
clematis3.jpg"
         put IT into imageList

put $_GET["pImageNum"] into pImageNum

#detect conditions and react
(((  my working IREV script will be in the next email )))
?>

-3- while still in the head section of the page use this line:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=slideShowParams.irev? 
pImageNum=nextImgNumber">
so that you are defining pImageNum as a number for the next slide
of course, you could use any number, not just incrementing

-4- caution to note the exact location of the quotation marks
This line will also work using single quotes. Browsers honor both.

<meta HTTP-EQUIV='refresh' CONTENT='10; URL=slideShowParams.irev? 
pImageNum=nextImgNumber'>


This example is using the same page URL 10 seconds from now to reload  
the page and pass a parameter that will choose the next slide in  
sequence.  If pImageNum is missing, empty, or not a number, we use 1.

This is yet another way to get a slide show sequence in order.

(((  my working IREV script will be in the next email )))
Working page for 10 second refresh is
       http://ampower.on-rev.com/slideshow/slideShowParams.irev


Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On Dec 20, 2009, at 10:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Sarah (and Sivakatirswami) wrote:
>> I would be very interested to see your code for this slideshow  
>> please.
>
> Ok, but it's almost too easy to post. There's a folder called  
> "cgiphotos" of flower images in the same directory as the irev page.  
> Inside that folder is also a text file named "cgiphotos.txt", which  
> contains a list of all the available photos. Each line of the list  
> has a file name as item one and a description as item two, like this:
>
> daisies.jpg,Daisies
> columbine2.jpg,Columbine
> etc
>
> In the html where I want the slideshow image to display, I choose a  
> random image and stuff that into the img src tag:
>
> <?rev
> put any line of url ("file:cgiphotos/cgiphotos.txt") into tFlower
> ?>
>
> <img src="cgiphotos/<?rev put item 1 of tFlower ?>" width="320"  
> height="240" border="1" />
>
> And later at the bottom of the page where I want the description to  
> appear:
>
> <?rev put item 2 of tFlower" ?>	
>
> I just use the refresh directive in a header to reload the page  
> every ten seconds:
>
> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="10">
>
> Pretty easy. If you wanted the slide show to be in a strict order,  
> it would be harder. I think you'd need to either set up cookies, or  
> write the current line to disk and read that for each reload, then  
> update the counter in the text file with the next line number.
>
> Or if you didn't want to keep a text file, you could read the files  
> in the directory and get the list that way too.