This is really great!
One question: the slideshow appears to load the full size image. Is there any way of forcing it to load the intermediate pictures?
Cheers
Glad you like it. I'm hoping to find time to do more work on it. Among the reasons that I decided to write it are 1) I'm not an Adobe fan and 2) the native CPG slideshow is a tad anemic. My goal was to create a slideshow that would fill the screen with good quality images. Intermediate images will likely not work well towards that end. The quality of the intermediate is often inferior to the original and, in many cases, the intermediate images may not yet exist and the server will need to create them in the middle of the slideshow. So it's nothing that I plan on pursuing.
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After actually investigating, I seem to have been wrong about the existence of the intermediate images. And you should be easily able to modify the plugin to use them. Make the following change to the fullSlide.php file:
change line 22 from this:
'fpath'=>$row['filepath'].$row['filename'],
to this:
'fpath'=>$row['filepath'].'normal_'.$row['filename'],
Not sure if any image height issues may crop up, but that should work for you.
I'll consider making it an option in my next release (where options will hopefully be settable on an album by album basis).
Thanks for your feedback.