Picasaweb embedded slideshow interval
I moved all by best photos over to Picasaweb, so I could have the really nice embedded slideshows here on mat.su. The main thing that I didn’t like was the fixed four second interval between photos, so I took a peek inside slideshow.swf (the flash file that the slideshow is run on), and I found out that if you add interval=x; in the embedded code right before the RGB variable like this (…) interval=7;RGB=0xFFFFFF& (…) the delay between photos will be the one you determine, in seconds (and yes, you can change the RGB values of the background – the standard is 0×000000 – black – and as you can see I changed it to 0xFFFFFF – white – to go with my wordpress theme).
hi there,
i am sure this is a stupid question – but where do i get the EMBED code that contains the RGB phrase? the embed code i find looks like this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/NAME/Album2007?authkey=abscedef#s123456789123456789
any hints?
thanks in advance!
alfred.
The way to get the embed code like I describe here is to enter one of your Picasa Web albums, and choose “Embed Slideshow” link on the left. I’ve read somewhere (so I’m not sure) that the option might only be available if your interface is in English.
As Pedro pointed out, the option only appears if you have English USA selected. It does not appear if you have English UK. It took some of my precious time, you know.
I ran slideshow.swf through Trillix Flash Decompiler and searched through the script code for variables which can be specified through flashvars. Some of them are understandable, others are not.
host – should always be picasaweb.google.com
port – presumably a TCP port
scalemax – unknown
interval – as described in this article
gp – setting it to anything disables the display of the PicasaWeb user name and icon, though the user icon is still shown
attachMovie – seems to call a function, but is part of the _root array so included in this list
getNextHighestDepth – seems to call a function, but is part of the _root array so included in this list
feed – the actual PicasaWeb album being displayed in the slideshow
font – looks like it should control the caption text size, but in experimenting could make it do anything
text – RGB for caption text
textBackground – RGB for caption background
textAlpha – I think it’s a percentage value, controls the transparency for the caption background
captions – boolean, display captions or don’t
noautoplay – boolean, autoplay or don’t
RGB – frame around the slideshow
Hope this helps someone. I’d love to know what some of those other parameters do.
Fantastic. Wish there was a way to disable the user icon altogether. And how to achieve looping?
VERY helpful thanks! It worked for me when i used “&” (w/o quotes) in between the interval number and “RGB” since this is how all the other parameters were separated. Using only ; canceled my RGB parameters.
interval=7&RGB=0xFFFFFF&
Thanks for the tip. I’m using it now on my webzine, Tinig.com.