SLIDESHOWPRO MODULE Slideshow Pro Integration for Drupal Image Module Tested with SSP 1.3.1 and 1.6.1 component for Macromedia Flash. REQUIREMENTS views module taxonomy module image module image_gallery module Macromedia Flash with Slideshow Pro Flash plugin for creating a Slideshow Pro application INSTALLATION 1) Get Slideshow Pro from http://www.slideshowpro.net and create an swf file like described in ssphowto.png, export the flash movie as ssp.swf to the slideshowpro module directory. 2) Install the module 3) Go to the settings page and configure module 4) You can now create a slide show feed with views module Provide page with path (e. g. path/to/your/feed) View Type: SlideShowPro: XML feed Filter: SlideShowPro: Image Galleries (chose one ore more galleries you want to show) or any other filter setting You don't need to specify fields. 5) Go to Administer->Filter Formats and turn on "Inline SSP Slideshows" for the input format of your choice. 5) Embed the slideshow by adding the following filter macro to the body of your post [ssp|path=path/to/your/feed] [ssp|path=path/to/your/feed|width=300] [ssp|path=path/to/your/feed|width=300|height=200] There are also more advanced options like: [ssp|path=path/to/your/feed|width=300|height=200|params=autoFinishMode:Restart,navAppearance:Hidden] you should be able to pass in any kind of documented SSP setting. * Refer to your SSP User Guide for more options. * Use camelCase for options spelled Camel Case. ACTION SCRIPT SNIPPET FOR YOUR SWF Put this action script snippet into frame no 1 of your flash application. This snippet copies all values passed in from HTML to the SSP component. Keep the settings on the SSP component to their defaults if you would like to set them with the filter macro. // begin // ssp is the name of your SSP component Movie Clip ssp.xmlFilePath = unescape(xmlfilepath); ssp_vars = parameters.split(','); for (var i = 0; i < ssp_vars.length; i++) { var_value = ssp_vars[i].split(':'); if (var_value[1] == "True") { var_value[1] = true; } else if (var_value[1] == "False") { var_value[1] = false; } ssp[var_value[0]] = var_value[1]; } // end SSP AND CCK FIELDS For using SlideShowPro together with CCK fields such as the image field, follow the instructions here: http://drupal.org/node/195274#comment-649275 (BTW: a how-to write up for this readme file would be highly appreciated)