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Hi,
I am a complete new comer to backlight and am in the process of designing my website. I have just purchased the theater plugin but am struggling with inserting a slideshow into a page.
I can create a slideshow and insert it onto a page using the “Insert Album”options within a page, but this does not allow me to display slideshows where I want to.
My website has tabbed content and I wish to insert a slideshow into the tabbed content and set the size of the displayed slideshow depending on the size of the tabbed content area. If I insert a slide show using the option presented by the "Insert Album" option in a page the slidshow I cannot control where the slide show is as it will be either above or below my tabbed content, not inside it where i need it.
What html/css/js code can be used within the page copy area of a page, to manually insert a slideshow? I have searched through the forum but cannot find an answer.
I can use iframe to display the slideshow in the tabbed content area from a test page with a slideshow but this seems like a backward step.
(The album from which my slideshow pictures are to be used have been published from Lightroom and display ok in a slideshow on a test page. My site is not hosted yet as it is still in development.)
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If I understand what you want to do (not sure what you mean by "tabbed content"), you want text both above and below a Theater inline slide show?
That's not possible as is, but see this post for a possible solution
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Hi Rod and thanks for the reply
Not quite, It's not text above or below the slideshow it's about where to have the slideshow running. If I could upload a screenshot I could show you a screenshot of my page but I can't see where to upload a picture. This link below however shows what I mean by tabbed content:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/0 … solutions/
I wish to insert a slideshow into the pane area of the active tab. I can't do this using the insert album as it wishes to insert it either above or below the tab control area, not inside it.
An example of what I am trying to do can be found with the nextgen gallery in Wordpress. A shortcut code can be used to insert the gallery anywhere on a page.
https://www.imagely.com/docs/nextgen-ga … hortcodes/
I'd like to grab the code that the "Insert Album" uses to create a slideshow on a page and insert that code into the control tab area on my page so that the slideshow runs in the pane area when someone selects that particular tab.
Hope that explains it a bit better.
Regards
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Here's how to post a screen shot: http://community.theturninggate.net/vie … hp?id=7046
What you want to do isn't possible as far as I know. You may be able to create tabbed content by writing your own HTML, but the Vegas inline slideshow can only be placed above or below any page content.
So if you create that tabbed content, any Theater based slideshow cannot be inserted into it.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Thanks Rod,
My post isnt about how to write tabbed content, that I can do and have done. Not being able to insert a theater slideshow into this seems like a shortcoming which seriously reduces the overall flexibility.
As I mentioned my site isn't yet hosted so I cannot post the picture as you described in your post;
http://community.theturninggate.net/vie … hp?id=7046
There must be a way to do it, if the code can present it above and below the surely the code can be modified to insert a slideshow inside other html areas on a page.
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Probably easier said than done. I don't think it's as easy as slipping a PHP code snippet into some HTML.
And Backlight does not employ short codes for such things.
But Matt is the one who would know if it's possible.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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At present, galleries can only be positioned on the page where allowed by using Backlight's designer options. You could perhaps move things by using jQuery to append the parent elements elsewhere on the page, but that may or may not have other side-effects, as the galleries are not built with that sort of thing in mind.
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Hi, there will be also no possibility to set a slideshow in the header of the site instead of a masthead picture?
Rainer
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Thanks for the reply Matthew,
Hopefuly this will become a possibility in the very near future for Theater. I have given up on Theater for now as I can produce nice slideshows in Wordpress. I'll use Iframe to include them in my Backlight pages without mucking around with jquery to do it. Seema like a backward step but I'll keep an eye out for developments and hopefully paying for theater wasn't money down the drain.
Thanks again.
Cheers
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