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billyzkid — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:27:29 GMT

Slide.Show Quick Start Guide

Vertigo Software
December 2007

Introduction

This guide has one purpose – to help you build your first slideshow with Slide.Show as quickly as possible. It assumes that your scenario is typical – you have a nice collection of photos that you’d like to display on your personal Web site.

Of course, Slide.Show was designed with flexibility in mind, whether it’s embedding Flickr photos directly in a blog post, displaying a line of products using the corporate colors and a watermark, or even providing a fluid, theater-like viewing experience for high-resolution artwork.

But that’s not what this guide is about. Once you’re familiar with the basic steps and tips below, you’ll be ready to customize, extend, and embed your slideshows anywhere on the Web using the comprehensive documentation available in the Slide.Show User Guide. But first, the basics…

Your first slideshow with Slide.Show

The typical scenario involves the following steps:

Step 1. Determine the Web page to host the Slide.Show control
Step 2. Define a configuration file with the desired behavior and options for the control
Step 3. Define a data file with the album and slide data for the control

Step 1: Embed the control

At a minimum, a Web page hosting the Slide.Show control requires the following:

An external script tag that references the standard Silverlight.js file
An external script tag that references the Release version of the SlideShow.js file
An inline script tag that creates and embeds the Slide.Show control in the page

Tip: To keep things organized, create a new folder in your site to contain the page and other files required by your slideshow, including the Silverlight.js and SlideShow.js scripts, configuration and data files, and images.

First, create a new page in your site with the following content:

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Slide.Show</title>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="Silverlight.js"></script>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="SlideShow.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			new SlideShow.Control();
		</script>
	</body>
</html>

Next, view the page in the browser to make sure everything is wired up correctly. At this point, it’s just an empty slideshow as shown below:

Figure 1. An empty slideshow

Note: The inline script tag will embed the Slide.Show control in the HTML document at the exact location of the script tag (e.g. within table cells). This is important to note when integrating the control with complex page layouts.

Step 2: Configure the control

To give substance to your empty slideshow, you’ll need to configure it. In the typical scenario, this is done via an XML configuration file.

First, modify the inline script tag in your page as follows:

<script type="text/javascript">
	new SlideShow.Control(new SlideShow.XmlConfigProvider());
</script>

Note: Slide.Show can be configured via an XML file or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). The latter allows inline or cross-domain configuration, essential for more complex scenarios (such as embedding the control in a blog post).

Next, create a file named Configuration.xml in the same folder as your page with the following content:

<configuration width="600" height="400" background="Silver">
	<modules>
		<module type="SlideViewer" />
		<module type="ProgressBar" />
		<module type="SlideDescription" />
		<module type="NavigationTray">
			<option name="thumbnailViewer.left" value="83" />
		</module>
	</modules>
	<transitions>
		<transition type="FadeTransition" name="CrossFadeTransition" />
		<transition type="WipeTransition" name="WipeRightTransition">
			<option name="direction" value="Right" />
		</transition>
	</transitions>
</configuration>

The above configuration overrides the default width, height, and background color of the Slide.Show control, and then adds a few modules and transitions that will provide standard slideshow behavior.

Tip: Slide.Show supports over 300 configurable options! In the above configuration, option tags are used to override the default position of the thumbnail viewer and the default direction of the wipe transition.

Refresh your page in the browser to see the effect of the above configuration – now the control provides both basic and thumbnail navigation, buttons to toggle between album view and full-screen mode, and it will respond to the mouse by sliding in titles and descriptions from the top of the control.

Figure 2. A configured (but still empty) slideshow

Note: You may need to restart the browser or clear the browser’s cache to view subsequent changes to the XML configuration file (and to prevent the browser from using a cached version of the file).

Step 3: Provide data to the control

In the previous step, we configured the size, background color, and behavior of the Slide.Show control. In this final step, we’ll provide album and slide data to the control via an XML data file.

First, modify the end of the configuration file as follows:

	...
	</transitions>
	<dataProvider type="XmlDataProvider" />
</configuration>

Tip: Alternatively, Slide.Show can be configured to use a different data provider, such as the FlickrDataProvider, which uses the Flickr API to retrieve photo data for a given Flickr user (via REST and JSON). This is useful for more complex scenarios where cross-domain file download restrictions are an issue.

Next, create a file named Data.xml in the same folder as your page with the following format:

<data transition="CrossFadeTransition">
	<album
		title="Album Title #1"
		description="Album Description #1"
		image="Images/Album1.jpg">
		<slide
			title="Slide Title #1"
			description="Slide Description #1"
			image="Images/Slide1.jpg"
			thumbnail="Images/Thumbnail1.jpg" />
		...
	</album>
	...
</data>

Obviously, your data file should be modified to contain real album and slide data specific to your slideshow. Once it’s complete, reload the page in the browser and enjoy your slideshow!

Figure 3. The finished slideshow

Tip: The data file may reference local or remote images using relative or absolute URLs. JPEG and PNG format is supported.

Tip: Although Slide.Show works well with a single set of images, you can optimize performance and improve the sharpness of smaller images in your slideshow by creating additional sets of images sized specifically for use by albums, thumbnails, and thumbnail previews.

Where to go from here?

Now that you’re familiar with the basic steps and tips above, please refer to the Slide.Show User Guide for comprehensive documentation detailing additional usage scenarios, modules, transitions, configuration and data providers, options, architecture diagrams, contributor guidelines, and tips for extending Slide.Show to meet your unique needs.

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Please visit the Slide.Show project page for the latest releases, discussions, source code, and to provide feedback, report bugs, suggest new features, or to become an open source contributor for the project.

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Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:26:28 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

UPDATE! Slide.Show 2 is now available as a separate CodePlex project! Slide.Show 2 is a port of the original Slide.Show application to managed code for Silverlight 2. It includes all of the features of Slide.Show 1 and more.

Slide View

Album View

Memorabilia Sample

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

New Comment on "Quick Start Guide"

kuldeeppal20 — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:29:33 GMT

How we can change background color? I want change color black to white or another color? how i we change background color? please help its urgent....

New Comment on "Quick Start Guide"

ajoychawla — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:15:21 GMT

The slide show is too good. i appreciate that. but i want images to be shown in continuous loop. Can anyone guide me how i can configure this sildeshow for continuous loop. thanks in advance

New Comment on "Quick Start Guide"

AndreT503 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:18:10 GMT

Where is the user guide?

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:42:26 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:37:53 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

UPDATE! Slide.Show 2 is now available as a separate CodePlex project! Slide.Show 2 is a port of the original Slide.Show application to managed code for Silverlight 2. It includes all of the features of the original application and more.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:36:38 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

UPDATE! If you are a new user, Slide.Show 2 is now available as a separate CodePlex project! Slide.Show 2 is a port of the original Slide.Show application to managed code for Silverlight 2. It includes all of the features of the original application and then some.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:30:53 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:44:03 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:26:37 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac!)
Supports Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:28:02 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac!)
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about this project and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:26:39 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac!)
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about Slide.Show and other news.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:24:32 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac!)
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo. Please visit us for more information about Slide.Show or to view other samples of our work.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:21:35 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac!)
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo Software. For more information on the project and to see other samples of their work, you can visit their website.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:20:18 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration
Resizable for any Web page design
Full-screen and embedded modes
100% configurable via XML, themes, or your own custom provider
Slideshow data from XML, Flickr, or your own custom provider
Auto-playback with numerous transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe)
Cross-browser (e.g. IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Safari 2/3, PC and Mac!)
Open source (e.g. extensible controls, configuration and data provider models, commented code)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo Software. For more information on the project and to see other samples of their work, you can visit their website.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:11:08 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

   Slide View

   Album View

   Memorabilia Sample

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Interested in the gory details? Read the comprehensive User Guide (coming soon!)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration required to embed in any page
100% customizable via XML or JavaScript
Album and slide data provided by XML, Flickr, or JavaScript
Auto-playback with multiple transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe, etc.)
Plug and play with hundreds of color, font, size, position, and behavior options
Cross-browser (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, Safari 2 and 3, both Windows and Mac!)
Can be sized to fit any design and is even resizable for fluid layouts
Full-screen and embedded modes
Architected for open source extensibility (e.g. object-oriented JavaScript, configuration/data provider model, user controls, modular, etc.)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo Software. For more information on the project and to see other samples of their work, you can visit their website.

Updated Wiki: Home

billyzkid — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:04:11 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

Slide View

Album View

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Interested in the gory details? Read the comprehensive User Guide (coming soon!)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration required to embed in any page
100% customizable via XML or JavaScript
Album and slide data provided by XML, Flickr, or JavaScript
Auto-playback with multiple transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe, etc.)
Plug and play with hundreds of color, font, size, position, and behavior options
Cross-browser (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, Safari 2 and 3, both Windows and Mac!)
Can be sized to fit any design and is even resizable for fluid layouts
Full-screen and embedded modes
Architected for open source extensibility (e.g. object-oriented JavaScript, configuration/data provider model, user controls, modular, etc.)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo Software. For more information on the project and to see other samples of their work, you can visit their website.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

billyzkid — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:47:37 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight 1.0 control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

Slide View

Album View

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Interested in the gory details? Read the comprehensive User Guide (coming soon!)
Slide.Show HOWTO video by Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration required to embed in any page
100% customizable via XML or JavaScript
Album and slide data provided by XML, Flickr, or JavaScript
Auto-playback with multiple transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe, etc.)
Plug and play with hundreds of color, font, size, position, and behavior options
Cross-browser (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, Safari 2 and 3, both Windows and Mac!)
Can be sized to fit any design and is even resizable for fluid layouts
Full-screen and embedded modes
Architected for open source extensibility (e.g. object-oriented JavaScript, configuration/data provider model, user controls, modular, etc.)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo Software. For more information on the project and to see other samples of their work, you can visit their website.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

billyzkid — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:37:02 GMT

What is Slide.Show?

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight 1.0 control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web.

Slide View

Album View

Quick Links

Play with a live sample
Need a slideshow yesterday? Read the Quick Start Guide (also available in Word (.doc) or Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Interested in the gory details? Read the comprehensive User Guide (coming soon!)
Ben Hoffman's SSGenerator tool for image resizing and Slide.Show data file generation

Features

Minimal setup and configuration required to embed in any page
100% customizable via XML or JavaScript
Album and slide data provided by XML, Flickr, or JavaScript
Auto-playback with multiple transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe, etc.)
Plug and play with hundreds of color, font, size, position, and behavior options
Cross-browser (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, Safari 2 and 3, both Windows and Mac!)
Can be sized to fit any design and is even resizable for fluid layouts
Full-screen and embedded modes
Architected for open source extensibility (e.g. object-oriented JavaScript, configuration/data provider model, user controls, modular, etc.)

Slide.Show was developed by Vertigo Software. For more information on the project and to see other samples of their work, you can visit their website.