How can I compose an External URL with variable values?

dennisvanduijn · Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:17 pm

Hi all!

I wonder if it would be possible to use a variable text in an External URL. Reason is, I would like to create a robust slideshow which 'knows' which pano is currently shown and loads the slide accordingly.
For example, a slideshow correctly starts loading an external image with

[stills/01.02/00.jpg] (this means: pano 01, slideshow 02, image 00.jpg)

I've put the active slideshow in variable 'Slideshow', 'Slideshow'= '01.02'. So I would expect that

[stills/$(*Slideshow)/00.jpg]

loads the external image regardless of the specific slideshow. Funny thing is, it doesn't. Any thoughts?

Cheers!

Dennis

dennisvanduijn · Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:02 pm

I hope it's ok I bump this topic? Solving this issue would significantly reduce project building and might help others too.

Neal · Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:32 am

This should be possible but may require some javascript. I'm going to play around with it and see if I can come up with something.

dennisvanduijn · Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:48 am

That would be nice, thank you!

the.focus.farm · Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:53 pm

Yeah that's a very good topic.
Actually, I have a similar need, which is to set a variable to a certain value from within hyperlinks inserted in text areas within the skin.
So the scenario is the following :

In a text area,

1/ an <a href ...> would trigger the variable change, which could affect the skin on click. Cannot figure out the syntax yet. I guess [ set value ]...
2/ quite close, I am also trying to find a way to use an <a href ...> to load a url into an existing iframe defined in the skin. Same thing. I tried to target the iframe but could not go through yet.

It would indeed be great to get some sort of quick reference to figure this out.
It must be doable within pano2vr, without having to add external js, I guess... as variables are there already.

Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:04 pm

Hi!

I'm told that you might find your answer in tomorrow's webinar: https://ggnome.com/webinars/

dennisvanduijn · Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:57 pm

Hi Karyn,

Nice, I hope I'll find my answers there. If not, I'll probably learn some other useful things

Dennis

Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:34 pm

Hi Dennis,
The thought process for making galleries has gone full circle.
Back in the day, I made galleries using Pano2VR 4 pro.
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Then as time moved on and the skin editor got more functions I made a gallery using the skin.
But revisiting making the gallery using Pano2VR this is probably the best way, I have come up with yet another method of building a gallery which uses the skin configuration button where you tell the skin how many images and the name of the folder the pictures are in.

But still, this can be a bit troublesome when adding more than one per project, I have made versus feature requests to see if Thomas and Christoph can overcome these problems.

But to date, the best way is using Pano2VR to build the gallery and then embed it using an iframe.
The embedding webinar covered this and the video will be up in a few days.

The trick with this is once you have a gallery skin, it takes no time at all to build them.
The files used and project created will also be available for download from our webinar page when done.
Regards,

dennisvanduijn · Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:27 pm

Wow, thanks, I'm really looking forward to be able to view the webinar!

Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:10 am

In case you didn't see it yet.

https://ggnome.com/gg_webinars/embeddin ... -projects/

dennisvanduijn · Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:54 am

Thank you Karyn, I saw it all! I didn't know it would be possible to use a separate project as a slideshow. At the same time I wonder when the black borders can be made 100% transparent, because as long as they stay in it's a showstopper for me to do it like this. Even more, by using this method, my clients won't be able to maintain their slideshows themselves anymore. Currently they can just replace the images on their own hosted server and that's it. That's why I still would like to make my slideshows more robust using variables in the external image links. But I guess that won't happen any time soon?

Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:16 pm

Hi Dennis,
Been working on a new take of the gallery, please find the project attached.
With this version, you use the skin configuration to set the number of images and also the folder name you added to assets.
The project also peloades the next image as did the old gallery.
See what you can pick out of it.
Regards,