On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sivakatirswami <ka...@hindu.org> wrote: > while waiting for the plug-in to settle down ( I can't deploy revlets until > the update function is working) > > I've been playing with iRev engine. > > Here's a slide show that uses an iRev template in an iFrame. > > http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/lexicon/images/backgrounds/ > > this code is generated by iRev functions to set up links behind the previous > and next buttons, where the buttons post the next slide and previous slide > numbers and path to the irev page which then returns the slide with a new > set of update buttons. I'm not really worried about the round trip to the > server because the html here is so small, the CSS (not shown) is cached and > you have to fetch the photos anyway, a little more html text is hardly an > issue. > > Now, I'm wondering if there is a way to make this thing drive itself, so the > user does not have to click the next button, using iRev code. > > I suspect I can't really do that with iRev but will need some Javascript > (which I don't know at all.)
Have a look at <http://www.troz.net/onrev/samples/slideshow.irev> where I use JavaScript & AJAX to do this. The JavaScript sets up a timer and every 5 seconds, this sends an AJAX request to another irev file returns the html to display a random image. This link will show you the script of the secondary file <http://www.troz.net/onrev/samples/showscript.irev?showscript=includes/photolink.irev> HTH, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution