NEW page: (as long as commenting is not possible in the shoebox): List of changes
Start the GUI-version of the program with
shoes html2slideshowDialog.rb.
The console-version is html2slideshow.rb (which is in reality also called by the shoes-dialog).
The program creates a HTML/JavaScript slide show from images found in a source-folder or referenced from HTML-files in that folder, in the latter case 1 slide show for each original HTML-file.
The images themselves will not be moved, nor copied.
The current versions of slide shows will not be accessible to the Internet Explorer. If you find this restriction exaggerated, you are free to modify the JavaScript-file that is written alongside the slide shows and allow the Explorer to use them.
I wrote a Howto, which you will find in the sub-folder “doc” of the program folder after de-compression or, online, here: http://www.uplawski.de/html2slideshow/howto/howto.html
As an example for a generated slide show, here is one my own on: Hiking in the Dentelles de Montmirail
My HTML2Slideshow-Homepage explains the console-version.
In English: http://www.uplawski.de/html2slideshow/html2slideshow_en.html.
In German: http://www.uplawski.de/html2slideshow/.
Speak now or forever hold your peace:
Version 0.2.2
The logging-option did not work properly under Windows.
Now, the standard file is written to the directory, that is indicated in the environment-variable ‘TEMP’. On other systems I still try to write to the user’s home-directory, unless otherwise specified.
Also, modifying the name of the log-file will not generate a new file, each time a character is added or removed, but only upon leaving the options-dialog. Much better, this way. ;-)
Version 0.2.3 is a bug-fixed and slightly extended version. The biggest progress is though the internationalization. You can add now more languages for the surface and the generated HTML and JavaScript, by extending the file “tranlations” in the program-folder. Read the HOWTO for how to create, test and use the new translation. The file itself is rather self-explanatory, though.
Sorry for being slow in the head, sometimes. The program should have been named HTML2SlideShoe. Beats me.
I have translated my boring German web-page into a pigeon-English web-page. For explanations of the console-program and what I thought, when doing it, you can go here:
http://www.uplawski.de/html2slideshow/html2slideshow_en.html
Salve.
In version 0.3 I changed the default-behaviour of the program to use image-files directly as found in the source-folder. The options-dialogue offers to read references from HTML-files, instead.
It means, that you can create HTML/Java-Script sideshows in each folder containing image-files, e.g. to accompany your photo-collection.
to accompany your *NEW page*:.
A glitch, folks. Just a glitch:
I was impatient to upload the program, yesterday… now all works wonderfully, only, the generated slideshows show German text. Although you will be able to use all the functions to move manually through the images or to start/pause/stop the automatic slideshow, I will change the HTML-template to English, as soon as I find the time, one of these days…
Sorry. Should anyone really use this, you could also try to alter the template yourself. It is in am adequately named *.rb file.
In fact, you should… maybe it can be useful to create your own template where you only leave the field-names (like %-references-%> intact.