That does the trick. Thank you for that. I intended to do something similar but I don't have the Javascript background to do what you did.
Vivat Jesus, Paul On Feb 2, 1:31 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > I took the liberty of making the modifications with the switch, etc. You can > find it at the link below: > > http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com/gfslideshow-with-marketing.html > > You will notice that there are two slideshows on the page. The first controls > the caption/marketing message, while the second is just along for the ride. > > Hope this helps someone! > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > [email protected] > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan > Church! > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:39 AM, ptcruiser wrote: > > > > > Ok I got it, check it out: > > > GFslideShow.prototype.setNextPhoto = function() { > > if (this.images.length == 0) { > > return; > > } > > var ci = this.photo_index; > > document.getElementById('splash-menutst').innerHTML = this.entries > > [ci].title; > > > I think I can work with this now. What do you think? > > > On Feb 2, 12:08 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And actually, the more I think about it, you're going to want to put that > >> innerHTML code in the method that switches the images out, or you'll just > >> end up with that element containing the last feed entry's information. > >> You'll also probably want to wire it to a switch (probably an additional > >> option) so that, if it's not provided, the show will just go on, rather > >> than having all of the different shows on your page do the same thing on > >> their different timers and/or having to include both versions of the > >> gfslideshow.js and the mess that would involve. > > >> Jeremy R. Geerdes > >> Effective website design & development > >> Des Moines, IA > > >> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > >> [email protected] > > >> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan > >> Church! > > >> On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:58 AM, ptcruiser wrote: > > >>> Ok, > >>> I think I have figured everything out except how to get the value to > >>> display. Apparently I need the "title" field from the rss feed so I > >>> modified the code to look like this: > >>> image.setAttribute('alt',this.entries[i].title); > >>> That works good. Now the value is placed into the elements "alt" > >>> property on the page. > >>> The next problem is that I thought this should work to get the value > >>> in the document for display purposes like you suggested: > >>> document.getElementById('marketingMessage').innerHTML = this.entries > >>> [i].title; > > >>> That seems to kill the script and it stops working all together. > > >>> Paul > > >>> On Feb 2, 8:32 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Sure. The easiest way, of course, would be to make sure that your feed > >>>> includes the appropriate content tag (e.g., description for rss, summary > >>>> for atom) and then use something similar to what I suggested in this > >>>> post: > > >>>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/t... > > >>>> Alternatively, you could set up a JS array of the messages you want to > >>>> include and then change the code suggested at the link above to > >>>> something like this: > > >>>> image.setAttribute('alt',messageArray[i]); > > >>>> Finally, if you wanted to make sure that the user saw the messages > >>>> (i.e., they didn't have to mouseover the image), you could always change > >>>> that line completely to put the message in a different element on the > >>>> page which would then be visible for all to see. For example: > > >>>> document.getElementById('marketingMessage').innerHTML = messageArray[i]; > > >>>> Then #marketingMessage would have only to be in the same neighborhood on > >>>> the page as the slideshow (e.g., the element directly to the right of > >>>> your large slideshow now). > > >>>> Jeremy R. Geerdes > >>>> Effective website design & development > >>>> Des Moines, IA > > >>>> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > >>>> [email protected] > > >>>> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan > >>>> Church! > > >>>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:20 AM, ptcruiser wrote: > > >>>>> Hi Jeremy, > >>>>> Thanks for the help on this issue. I saw your other post about > >>>>> captioning and I think I understand it but my question is: Is there a > >>>>> way to add caption "snippets" to the rss feed coming in. Perhaps they > >>>>> wouldn't have a direct connection to the picture but they could have > >>>>> some sort of sales messages with them and cycle through a generic set > >>>>> of pitches. > > >>>>> Just a thought, > > >>>>> Paul > > >>>>> On Jan 31, 10:23 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> In your CSS, you have a rule that sets all .gss1 to display: > >>>>>> inline-table; Firefox doesn't like this, and IE is even more picky > >>>>>> about the display style. Both are choking here. If you make the line > >>>>>> of divs into a table with a single row of td's with the appropriate > >>>>>> ids, you should be able to get the look you're trying to accomplish. > >>>>>> Otherwise, you could use floated divs, but that can be pretty finicky > >>>>>> in and of itself. > > >>>>>> Jeremy R. Geerdes > >>>>>> Effective website design & development > >>>>>> Des Moines, IA > > >>>>>> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > >>>>>> [email protected] > > >>>>>> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > >>>>>> Wesleyan Church! > > >>>>>> On Jan 31, 2010, at 8:12 PM, ptcruiser wrote: > > >>>>>>> I cant seem to figure this one out. 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