FlashSlider Toolbars

The View menu contains all toolbars:

• Main
• Image settings
• Motion to the next slide
• Slide List
• Playback
• and Zoom (50%, 100% or 200%).

Main toolbar

The Main toolbar includes the "hot" buttons:

• New project
• Open project
• Save project
• Publish movie
• Undo/Redo

• Previous slide
• Next slide
• Add slide
• Delete slide

Image settings toolbar

The Image settings toolbar includes the following settings:

• Image: browse another slide or set movie size as image size or remove a selected image in the preview box directly.
• Position: select one of three placements (Left corner, Center, Stretch) on the screen if the movie size is not the same that the image size.
• Delay: how long the slide stays on the screen; this value is in seconds.

It is possible to set different properties as for each slide so for a group of slides. To unite several slides into a group use the "Ctrl" or "Shift" keys and click the slides.

Motion to the next slide toolbar

The Motion to the next slide toolbar includes the effect list, preview and time(lenght) of
effect.

Effect means a conversion of a slide to the next one and how long it goes on. A tree structure of the effect list contains the effect libraries.

To preview the selected effect click the "Play preview" button; select another effect from the list and see the changing in the preview box immediately.

Right click the effect list brings the context menu containing three commands:

• Full Expand opens all branches. This command unchecks the Auto Collapse command automatically;
• Full Collapse closes all branches except the selected one;
• Auto Collapse closes the branch automatically after selecting another one.

It is possible to set different properties and effects as for each slide so for a group of slides. To unite several slides into a group use the "Ctrl" or "Shift" keys and select the slides.

See also Effect manager.

Slide List toolbar

The Slide List toolbar reflects the slide order, time and effect for
each slide. It is a movie structure.

The last slide effect uses the first slide as the next one so the movie is cycled.

The slide managing is simple:

• unite several slides into a group using the "Ctrl" or "Shift" keys and selecting the slides;
• replace any slide using drag-and-drope feature.

The context menu is available by right-clicking any slide and contains several main commands for the selected slide: Browser picture, Add slide, Add slides, Insert slide before, Insert slide after, Delete slide. All these commands are in the main menu too.

Status bar shows info about number of selected slides, total number of slides and total time of movie.

Playback toolbar

The Playback toolbar is used to preview the movie and consists of the Play
and Pause buttons, the trackbar, current and overall time indicators.

Trackbar shows tracking the movie from slide to slide discretely.

The preview FPS (Frame-per-Second) is equal 24 and the preview is lighter than the real movie.