The rotator and SWF Tools are the perfect approach for the site I'm working on, but the overlaid buttons (upon mouseover) with title, forward, backward, full size are a dealbreaker. If I can't suppress them, I can't use this approach.

When I select show icons "false" in the image rotator admin, it still displays the buttons if someone mouses over the images being rotated.

Is there a way to totally disable the buttons?

Thank you

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Stuart Greenfield’s picture

There should be, and it sounds like the option isn't being set properly by SWF Tools.

As you can see the issue queue has become somewhat busy at the moment, so I have a bit of a backlog of stuff to work on, but I'll try to check this out and get it in the next release as it shouldn't be a big issue.

You say it is a deal breaker for you - do you have a date when you need this by (not that I can promise a fix by then!!!!! but I'll try!!!)

Stuart Greenfield’s picture

OK - I see what is happening, and it's easy to work around until I make the full fix.

To completely hide the control bar you need to set the flashvar shownavigation to false (per Wijering documentation). That isn't an option that is on the config page, but that's not a problem. Simply pass it as a discrete flashvar when calling SWF Tools and it will be added to the player config.

If you're using the input filter you'd write something like

<swf files="image1.jpg&&image2.jpg&&image3.jpg" flashvars="shownavigation=false">

That will put the appropriate flashvar in place, and you'll get no navigation. If calling via PHP simply add the flashvar to the $options array and you get the same result.

The better fix (but longer term) is to put this on the config options. I have a plan at some point to revisit all the config pages to make sure they have all the settings on them, but in the case of Wijering the fact you can use the flashvars format means this isn't so urgent.

Let me know if this works.

Stuart Greenfield’s picture

Status: Active » Needs review

Added as a setting on the player configuration page and committed on branch DRUPAL-6--2 pending next formal release.

atzi’s picture

Thanks Stuart your fix helped me also. Adding the appropriate flashvars has been tricky for me.
found the list of flashvars ....... see ........
http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Flashvars3

Stuart Greenfield’s picture

Status: Needs review » Fixed

Released in SWF Tools 6.x-2.5.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.