Re: Problems -- how to use it.

I am also new. I really like this slideshow, and I couldn't figure it out.. but I kept looking at the features, and they said block... so.. I've found it! To use this, you just go to your block settings, and activate the slideshow into your block of choice.

configure the slideshow under administer >> settings >> Couloir slideshow settings
make sure you set the folder with your images in it correctly.

go to administer >> blocks and enable the Couloir slideshow block

configure that block to be displayed only on special pages as desired.

thats it.

Hi CouchSurfingOri ,

I still couldn´t make the module to work.
I have the block enabled, but it doesn´t appear in the column I specified.
You said, "the bloc of your choice". I didn´t understand that. Any bloc can have a slideshow on it?

To Suit4, you said "make sure you set the folder with your images in it correctly."
There is no folder setting in the bloc setting page. So what does this mean?

I really don´t get ho to create a slidshow. ;(

Thanks for the help.
The module is great on the demo page though!!

By the way, as I downloaded the second folder of Couloir to put the CSS and JS subfolder into the couloir folder.
But those subfolders already existed! So I erased them to replace them with the new ones. Didn´t know what else todo as part of the files inside had the same name, so they would have been erased anyway.

Michael

You can go into Administer >> Settings >> Couloir slideshow settings in order to change the folder for the slideshow once you have enabled it and placed it where you like. The module creates a block in the region you specify, you can change this in the blocks section of your admin. Lastly, the files you downloaded separately are only needed with the developmental snapshot, they are already included in 5.x-1.2.

Hi,
Thanks for your fine work! I am quite new for drupal. I use drupal 5.5. I succeed to load module and setup block for only one page. It works good with a firefox browser but with explorer it change all font's size of page (contens and menu). Do you know why it happens and how solve this problem? maybe I have to put some frame inside the page? like for googlemap? sorry but I am very new
Thanks
magut
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Sorry, I have just found answer to my question in your comment http://drupal.org/node/195613.
Some times it is faster ask instead of looking for.
really bad my english...)

Hi all, I just downloaded and configured the module and, even though it has some shortcomings, I would say it's an excellent piece of work. It does need some documentation so this is what I have found to work:

Step 1 (after installation). On the settings page set the number of slideshows to 3 (an arbitrary number, this is just to illustrate my example). If you now go to the Blocks page you should see three new blocks in the "disabled" section, "Couloir Slideshow1", "Couloir Slideshow2" and "Couloir Slideshow3".

Step 2. Assuming you kept the default value of "files/couloir_slideshow" in the Image Path field on the settings page you should now create three folders in the "files" directory called "couloir_slideshow1", "couloir_slideshow2" and "couloir_slideshow3".

Step 3. All the pictures that you want to appear in slideshow 1 should be uploaded to "/files/couloir_slideshow1", pictures for slideshow2 should be uploaded to "/files/couloir_slideshow2", etc. The names of the files will be used as the caption in the slideshow. The order of the images can be set to random or ascending/descending by file name.

Step 4. Enable the blocks as you would normally, ie set viewing permissions, set which page(s) they should appear on etc.

Hopefully this will help anyone who is wondering how to get this fine module working.

Everyone should update to the latest version of the slideshow for 5.x (or 6.x for that matter) where much of the confusion is eliminated by having many of the settings now located in the individual block settings. Now there is no need for a specific folder naming scheme.

I have followed all the examples above and still can not load a slideshow. The source does not seem to be loading the js or css

jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, { "basePath": "/", "lightbox2": { "rtl": 0, "file_path": "/(\\w\\w/)files", "default_image": "/sites/default/modules/lightbox2/images/brokenimage.jpg", "border_size": 10, "font_color": "000", "box_color": "fff", "top_position": "", "overlay_opacity": 0.8, "overlay_color": "000", "resize_sequence": 0, "resize_speed": 400, "fade_in_speed": 400, "slide_down_speed": 600, "use_alt_layout": false, "disable_resize": false, "disable_zoom": false, "force_show_nav": false, "loop_items": false, "node_link_text": "View Image Details", "node_link_target": false, "image_count": "Image !current of !total", "page_count": "Page !current of !total", "lite_press_x_close": "press \x3ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"hideLightbox(); return FALSE;\"\x3e\x3ckbd\x3ex\x3c/kbd\x3e\x3c/a\x3e to close", "display_image_size": "", "image_node_sizes": "()", "trigger_lightbox_classes": "", "trigger_lightbox_group_classes": "", "trigger_slideshow_classes": "", "trigger_lightframe_classes": "", "trigger_lightframe_group_classes": "", "custom_class_handler": 0, "custom_trigger_classes": "", "disable_for_gallery_lists": true, "disable_for_acidfree_gallery_lists": true, "enable_acidfree_videos": true, "slideshow_interval": 3000, "slideshow_automatic_exit": 0, "show_play_pause": 1, "pause_on_next_click": 0, "pause_on_previous_click": true, "loop_slides": 1, "iframe_width": 600, "iframe_height": 400, "iframe_border": 1, "enable_video": false } });

@import "/sites/default/themes/deco/fix-ie6.css";

@import "/sites/default/themes/deco/fix-ie.css";

does not

Hi,

I'm using the latest 5.x version. The slide show appears, shows correct number of slides, displays itself according to the corresponding image size BUT does not actually display the picture!

Any ideas?

Alex.

I, too, have been fiddling around with Couloir Slideshow (6.x-1.6) and can't get it to work with Drupal (6.6). I like the module as it appears to work on ComputerWolf's site, only I can't make it work on mine. Here's what I have done (in great detail), can anyone tell me where I'm missing the boat

1)Downloaded the module and decompressed into my modules directory.
2) Created a directory at [sitename]/images/gallery and put a bunch of pictures in it.
3) Opened administration>>site building>>modules and enabled the Couloir Slideshow module
4) Opened administration>>site configuration>>couloir slideshow and set the number of slideshows to 3.
5) Opened administration>>site building>>blocks and assigned Couloir Slideshow 1 to the Content Top block, saved the block configuration.
6) From the blocks page, I then clicked on the 'configure' link next to Couloir Slideshow 1 to configure it.
7) the configuration settings were left all at the default except the 'image path' which I changed to 'images/gallery' (note it says "Image path relative to the configured File System Path, currently /sites/default/files." however, my site does not have that system path, I'm not sure what this path is).
8) Saved the block configuration.

Doesn't load anything at all into the blocks I defined. I tried messing with the file image setting trying to find out how to point to my gallery folder, haven't been able to. I suspect it can't find my gallery, but can't figure out how to correct this.

Any help you can provide would be really appreciated.

Well, once again, actually writing a problem down reveals the solution. Being a Drupal rookie, I've never messed with the 'site' folder and its contents, so wasn't aware it was there -- but there it was in all its glory [site name]/sites/default/files.

I put my gallery folder there, and it worked.

If you're having trouble, follow the steps in my previous post, except for step 2. In step 2, put your folder in the the elusive (not really) [site name]/sites/default/files folder.

Feeling stupid,
Dr. Rhomboid Goatcabin