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Executing a Web-based Photo Slideshow Program


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08-May-2007, 05:06 PM #1
Executing a Web-based Photo Slideshow Program
This is part 2 of a related thread in the Digital Imaging Forum. Briefly, I am wondering if it is possible, and if so how to go about it, to load a Windows program onto a website and initiate execution there. Specifically I am interested in Irfanview's photo imaging program's ability to prepare an executable program for displaying photos in a slideshow format within Windows. If I upload a series of photos on a website along with this EXE file, can I execute it on demand by a Javascript command for example. I am a novice in web-based programming and do not even know if a Windows EXE file will execute in a browser. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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08-May-2007, 05:48 PM #2
My immediate answer would be no, but I haven't seen the program your talking about.

Do you know if it creates a flash based file to preview the photos with?
Can you export the finished gallery as flash?

You can not run .exe files from any website for obvious security reasons and most people and antivirus programs will not download the .exe file to begin the script (even if js calls it)

There are tons of free galleries out there, you wol,d just need to find one that meets your criteria (flash, javascript, php, asp, etc)
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08-May-2007, 07:42 PM #3
Part of my lack of knowledge of web-based programming shows up when I ask "what is a flash based file"?

As to existing photo hosting sites, I am looking for one that would extract IPTC data stored with the JPG images. I load that information in the image file when it is first prepared, so it includes information such as captions, dates, location of image, etc. Irfanview does this very nicely. Now I would like to capture that information without having to repeat any entries of captions and the like. I have not yet found a photo hosting site that extracts that data from the file.
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08-May-2007, 10:38 PM #4
No worries about your lack of knowledge, that is why your here I assume!

a flash based file is this:
http://joycoweb.com/userfiles/flash/flashfiles/

What your looking for is gallery scripts, they usually display the exif information that is embedded into the images.

Here is a sample of a database less script that display's exif
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