Hi:

I was hoping someone could help me do this. On the photos.aspx page when one clicks on a photo we have the next previous, first, last photos. Is there a way to incorporate a slideshow button with some code which advances through all slides in that album every x seconds?

Thanks

Uday

Hi,

you can use this AJAX control: http://ajax.asp.net/ajaxtoolkit/SlideShow/SlideShow.aspx.

Grz, Kris.

Yeah I saw the ajax module but i dont want to use AJAX.. Isnt there any easy way to just add a button which automatically updates the pageindex every few seconds.

Please help..

Hi, 

uhebbar:

i dont want to use AJAX.

you didn't mention that in your original question so that's why I provided that solution. Another technique would be to use what's inside this article: Create a simple slide show and in the html place the following meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />

You should be able to put these 2 together and obtain the result you're after.

Grz, Kris.

Thanks for the response. If I put the <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" /> code .. how will it move to the next image?

Thanks again for your patient help

Uday

Hi,

I see several possible scenarios:

• store the currently viewed image in viewstate, retrieve it upon postback, what the refresh will be causing, and from that make up what the next image will be.
• use the querystring. In the <meta> tag you can specify a url in which you can place the next to view image name or unique identifier to the image. Upon postback you get the querystring put in that image, set the querystring of the next image and render the output to the browser.

Grz, Kris.

Thanks again.. is there a way to call a vb routine from the meta tags? If so then I can update the pageindex ..

Thanks

Hi,

the Page_Load event gets handled automatically upon the postback occurs. There you can set the pageindex.

Grz, Kris.