VERY basic picture slideshow...?

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MiniMonty
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VERY basic picture slideshow...?

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Hi all,

I'm a photographer and a long old while ago I learned Flash to build myself a website.
I then learned php (as much as I needed) to help a friend do a thing for his school.
So I know a bit...
Now because Flash is dead and gone and iPads won't display it I need to start afresh.

I'm trying, in vain, to find a slideshow script which will do VERY simple stuff.
Take pictures from a dir, put one in the centre of the screen
and allow the users to go back and forth with simple arrow buttons (.gifs)

I can find a million fancy pantsy slideshows out there which do a million crazy things but I can't find one which is simple.
I want to replicate the site I built in Flash which is here: [url=]www.heagren.com[/url=] click on "pictures" to see
how basic I want this thing to be.

ALL and ANY help, pointers, tutorials or what have you very much appreciated and yes, I've searched this forum,
other forums and the web for a week now and I'm unhappy to report I can't find a thing.
Closest I came was PHPslideshow from zinkwazi.com which works pretty well but WILL NOT centre the images no
matter what I try....

So, again, ALL and ANY help much appreciated.

Best wishes
Monty
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Re: VERY basic picture slideshow...?

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MiniMonty wrote:Closest I came was PHPslideshow from zinkwazi.com which works pretty well but WILL NOT centre the images no
matter what I try....
http://www.zinkwazi.com/downloads/demo/ ... rrentPic=0

Looks centered to me. Might just be a styling issue.
MiniMonty
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Re: VERY basic picture slideshow...?

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I agree, it does look centered until you ask it to deal with pictures of varying sizes - then you realise that the "registration point", for want of a better description, is top left.
You can see this on the demo page, every now and then an image takes a moment to load and you can see a white square top left.
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