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Shape Shifting slide display Version 1.1

Shape Shifting slide display
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Pictures that are taken in SL can have different shapes!
- You can see these options in the Snapshot window when you take a picture
- That's why some of your pictures can look stretched or squished when you display them in a slide display
- The problem gets even worse when some of your more creative friends edit them before they give them to you
- If you also have pics from RL, or the web, there can be a lot of different picture shapes in your inventory.

Features:
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Reshapes itself to handle having different shaped pictures in a single slide display
- Controllable default and by individual picture settings
- Individual shapes can be also be set or saved by either renaming the pic, or editing a notecard
- Three resize modes to fit it in any space
= Constant Height
= Constant Width
= Constant Area
Touch to advance, and slide show mode
- Long touch invokes menu in both modes
- Controllable slide changing time
Pre-loads next texture to reduce/eliminate wait time to see it
Automatically recognizes and adds pictures that are dragged into the contents folder
Options to display picture information in title
Full bright on/off control

Usage:
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Left clicking (Touching) the picture will cause it to advance to the next picture

Holding your left mouse button held down for 1/2 second (long click) brings up the menu system
- This temporarily turns off slide show mode

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Menu Controlled Operations:

Buttons on all menus
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menu >>
Brings up the next menu

menu <<
Brings up the previous menu

done
Closes the menu
Restores slide show operation if its enabled
Reduces lag by shutting down the scripts listening function

Picture Selection Command Menu
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slide mode/ touch mode
Toggles between slide mode and touch to advance. A normal click will cause it to advance even in slide mode

In touch mode the 4 PicNum buttons increase or decrease the picture number that is displayed
- This allows you to quickly move to a picture if you remember its number ( see "show num" and "show both" options below. )

In slide mode the 4 ChgTime buttons increase or decrease the number of seconds before the next picture is displayed
- Changing the slide time temporarily turns ON slide mode until you leave this menu. If it is turned on, it is also re-enabled when you use "done"

bright TRUE/FALSE
If bright is TRUE, the pictures are clearly visible even in dim light.

The right side row of buttons control the title information that is displayed
There are 4 modes of operation:
1) show none
This is the default mode. No Title information is displayed
2) show name
This shows the file name of the picture as a title floating over the top of it
3) show num
shows the number of the picture, this can be useful if you want to go quickly to a specific picture
4) show both
Includes both the picture number, and file name in the title

Resize command menu
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Set size
Controls the overall size of the picture. Use this to make your picture bigger or smaller instead of using edit. The resize functions will change the size of the pic based on this setting

W/H default
Changes the Default Width to Height ratio. Most PC screens are about 1.3 times as wide as they are high, so this is the initial default ratio when the frame is reset
Wide screen displays are about 1.6
8x10 pics would use 0.8 if they are vertical, or 1.25 if they are horizontal

W/H this_pic
Changes the Width to Height ratio for the current picture

size, default or this_pic
These are the 4 buttons in the lower left corner of the menu, and change to match the mode the menu is in
They can be used to change the value up or down in increments of 1.0 or 0.1

The buttons on the right side control the resize mode. There are 4 modes of operation
1) resize Area
This is the default mode. The display is resized to have all pictures have about the same total area
2) resize Width
The width of the picture is changed, while the hight is kept constant
3) resize Height
The height of the picture is changed, while the width is kept constant
4) resize Off
All pictures are displayed with the default height and width

Utility Functions Menu
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Wext hide/show
This toggles between hiding or showing the W/H number extension in the picture name

Say Overrides
Says any W/H number overrides (that were previously created using the 1pic option) in chat
These can be cut and pasted into the width_overrides notecard, or used to change the file name of the picture

TchTime buttons
Control how long the picture has to be touched (left mouse button held down) before the menu comes up

See item in Second Life
  • Reshapes itself for different shaped pictures in a single slide display
  • Controllable default and by individual picture settings
  • Automatically recognizes and adds pictures that are dragged into the contents
  • Touch to advance, and slide show mode
  • Options to display picture information in title