Slideshow Manager Customisation

Hi there, really loving the Slideshow Manager, works a treat. Can anyone give me any pointers in how to customise it though....i don't want the html caption to pop up at the bottom of each slide. I also don't want the series of dots (allowing the user to select specific images/slides) to appear underneath the slideshow but either overlay the image in the bottom right hand corner, or remove completely. Any ideas?

I will go one step in the other direction. Who do I change the default image size to be something other than 600x400?

Topic started a while ago, but I'll answer anyway in case someone else is struggling with the same problem. I haven't figured out how to remove the caption.

To remove the series of dots: Edit nivo_headTpl chunk and change true to false. "controlNav: true, // 1,2,3... navigation"

To change the image size: Define the image size when you create a new album.

Does anyone know how to remove the caption in all or some slides?

I figured out two ways of doing it:

1. Edit nivo_headTpl chunk and change opacity to 0.0 - This still leaves the text and you'll see it when you hover your mouse over it.

You can change the CSS in nivo_headTpl chunk. Add the following line:



Any other ways? These two ways are still doing the captions but just not displaying them. Leaving title and description blank doesn't work as Slideshow Manager doesn't allow blank fields. Did it allow them before?

@tsavage: i've been trying to remove the captions and hitting the same issue at you. i can remove the caption until the first iteration then it adds it back. I quickly went through the js to see where this was generating from but did not get it isolated before address a different issue.

I found this quick and easy (dirty) work-around to remove captions:
go to Chunks "nivo_slidePaneTpl"
in there delete the titel attribute that it is like this:
<img src="[[+src]]" alt="[[+title]]" title="" />

Result: No more captions (as they seem to be generated by the title attribute)

Does anyone already know how to change the default image size of albums? Would be great it is a hassle to always chagne the image size manually...

Thanks, I tried this and works on slide 1.
However slides 2 to 4 still shows the title/description.

It's far easier to use a MIGX gallery, and output the images with a chunk tpl to fit whatever gallery slider/carousel you decide to use. For example, I have a site built with Bootstrap and it uses the default Bootstrap slider - in fact the template is based on this http://startbootstrap.com/template-overviews/modern-business/

The home page has a MIGX TV for the slider images, and the output is handled with the getImageList snippet using this chunk tpl:

And of course if you don't want a caption, just don't have the title field in the MIGX TV, and remove that div from the chunk tpl.

Quote from: tsavage at May 22, 2012, 09:36 AM

I figured out two ways of doing it:

1. Edit nivo_headTpl chunk and change opacity to 0.0 - This still leaves the text and you'll see it when you hover your mouse over it.

You can change the CSS in nivo_headTpl chunk. Add the following line:

.nivo-caption {
    display: none !important;
}

Any other ways? These two ways are still doing the captions but just not displaying them. Leaving title and description blank doesn't work as Slideshow Manager doesn't allow blank fields. Did it allow them before?

MODX > Dashboard > Elements > Chunks > SlideshowManager > nivo_headTpl > Chunk code (html): > Line 59 > display: none !important; works.


MODX > Dashboard > Elements > Chunks > SlideshowManager > nivo_headTpl > Chunk code (html): > line 92 > changed from
captionOpacity: 0.8, // Universal caption opacity
to
captionOpacity: 0.0, // Universal caption opacity

No difference in making title/description caption transparent.