Experiment a little

ShowPic layers can be anywhere you like. There's no need to stick with the Park Avenue design. Each trigger can open up a full size image anywhere on the screen, but only one image can be displayed at at one time. Attaching two images to one link doesn't work. Try the following two links.

Rock it to me, baby

C'mon, get up!

If you are on a slow connection, you may have noticed that the loading gif on the second ShowPic layer did not display to its full width. That's because the image of the upright rock is only 150 pixels wide. The loading.gif supplied by PVII is 300 pixels wide - and needs at least 230 pixels to display properly. So, if you plan to use a lot of narrow images, it's best to make your own loading.gif.

You've probably also noticed that this block of text suddenly appeared out of nowhere. How? It's very simple. It's in a layer of its own, which was set to hidden. Then two extra behaviours were added to the "C'mon, get up!" text link.

Behaviours panel with four events. First, Layout Designer 2 - Layers to position it 20px below and 20 px offset to the left of P7ShowPL2 (see the PA documentation pp93-105 for full details of how Layout Designer works). Then, AutoLayers (PA documentation pp 90-2) - with the main content layer, the P7ShowPL2 layer and this layer all set to "Show". Note that the "return false" command comes at the end of the sequence. If they end up in the wrong order, use the up and down arrows at the top right of the behaviours panel to move them into the correct position.

This shows just some of the many possibilities of ShowPic. It's not just a static gallery display device (although it does that job admirably, too). If you use your imagination, it can be put to many different uses - combining the sophistication of Park Avenue with your own fresh ideas.

What if I don't want the descriptive text at the bottom?