This slide show comes very close to what I am looking for. It just looks hard to maintain in terms of adding or removing photos from the slide show (if there are a lot of photos in the slide show).
Ideally, there would be an option where you simply specify a directory, and the slide show cycles through every image in the directory. This would make maintenance a snap!
The per-image parameters look useful, although personally I would be willing to compromise on not having them when a directory is specified in stead of specific photos.
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Anonymous (not verified) commentedMaybe the random image rotator can help you. See
http://automaticlabs.com/products/rotator
Martin
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brmassa commentedd samuel,
"image attributes" are very useful to news and "tutorials", so its not likely to be discontinued.
im working now in a slideshow editor, a feature very similar to image_assist module.
the "auto-update per directory" may be added in the future. if someone provides some code, i will be glad to merge! thats why im postponing this issue
best regards,
massa
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dsamuel commentedThanks Martin for the tip about the random slide show. That may meet my needs.
And thanks for your response, massa. I wouldn't want to see the per-image attributes abandoned, just that for me personally, I would not need them when using a directory as an image source rather than an explicit list.
Certainly a text file in with the image files listing each image and its attributes might possibly be easier to manage than including it in the node, but that is debatable. If it were database-driven though, that would be the cat's meow. I hear what you are saying though about the amount of work involved. A database-driven solution would automatically populate the database with a list of images from a directory, and provide an interface to set the attributes. It would also list entries that no longer have an image so you could delete such entries if you wanted to. As I say, it sounds like a lot of work, but it would be easy to use in the end. It is easier to suggest than execute!
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hedroom commentedSee this issue: http://drupal.org/node/130730
The code will randomly loop through all of the images in a folder (doesn't work with the latest version though).
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brmassa commentedD Samuel,
its feature will be release on the very next release. its on CVS (1.x-dev) already. i suggest to test it and see if you like.
best regards,
massa
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dsamuel commentedThanks!
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