On a recent project, I needed to produce a simple slide show, like this one, so I used SlideShow Pro (SSP) to create it. The difference was that I needed to have captions appear below the slide show and a click through button on top of it to let the viewer know that there was a profile attached to the image. Since SSP doesn’t do this “out of the box” I had to resort to using some ActionScript.
Note: All code here is AS2 and I assume you already know how to use SSP.
Create your slide show
I already figured out how to make my captions display externally, so review that post for more detailed info. For this project, here’s a quick overview:
- Create your Flash document using ActionScript 2 (code here is in AS2).
- Place your SSP instance and give it an instance name of
my_ssp. - Publish your slide show and make sure it’s working.
Continue reading Custom click through button with Slideshow Pro.
