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graphicsxp replied on October 26, 2009 22:00 to the question "Embeding Seadragon player in a hidden DIV breaks the DeepZoom image." in Microsoft Live Labs:

i have a cool art sharing website coming up soon, i'll post here when it's up and running then :)

graphicsxp replied on October 26, 2009 21:48 to the question "Embeding Seadragon player in a hidden DIV breaks the DeepZoom image." in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem,

No problem :) Well, I ended up changing my UI approach and I'm not using a popup div anymore (this has nothing to do with the fact that I had issues with the player in this scenario), Obviously it works like a charm without the popup :)

Hopefully the issue will be resolved by the day I need to take this approach again !

thanks a lot.

graphicsxp replied on October 09, 2009 07:34 to the question "Embeding Seadragon player in a hidden DIV breaks the DeepZoom image." in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi guys,

Thanks for helping !

Once my DIV is displayed, if I click on home nothing happens. However, if I click a second time on home, then the image gets displayed. So I need to click twice...
If I add viewer.viewport.goHome(true) to my code, then I only need to click once on home in order to see the image. Unfortunately adding this bit of code twice does not show the image as we could have expected at first.....

Aseem, thanks for the suggestion, I might try that once I've fixed this problem. One at a time :)
What is your 'hackier' workaround since this one didn't work ?

graphicsxp asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on October 08, 2009 13:36:

Embeding Seadragon player in a hidden DIV breaks the DeepZoom image.

Hi,
My Seadragon deepzoom has stopped working since I've put the DIV container into another DIV. I don't get any errors but the player remains black.

<mydiv class="overlay">
<mydiv>
</mydiv>
</mydiv>

I believe the issue is related to the fact that the "overlay" DIV is initially hidden (display:none).
Then when the user click on a button, the DIV is shown but the seadragon player remains black.

If I set the "overlay" DIV to visible right from the beginning, then the deepzoom image is loaded just fine.

Can someone help ? Do I need to change something or is this a bug in the player?

Thanks

graphicsxp replied on September 07, 2009 16:38 to the question "Using the Seadragon Windows Azure Service" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem,

I had a go with the combo player and I like it until I get a 404 error for the file http://seadragon.com/combo/0.8/seadra...

I guess it is still work in progress so I'm going to stick with my own code for now. But I'm looking forward to a release version !

thanks

graphicsxp replied on August 25, 2009 18:47 to the question "Using the Seadragon Windows Azure Service" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem,

I have actually written some simple code to test if the Silverlight plugin is available or not. If it is, I use a Silverlight control that I've developed to show the DeepZoom image, otherwise I use the Seadragon Ajax embed.

But your combo control sounds very exciting and I'm going to try this right away ! I'll post here once I had a good try with it (with different browsers, etc...)

Thanks

graphicsxp replied on August 24, 2009 18:37 to the question "Using the Seadragon Windows Azure Service" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Does it really ? How do you configure it so that it switches to silverlight automatically ?
I've used it like that :
Seadragon.embed("300px", "300px", "http://www.metrica.net/output_images/2.xml", 2560, 1920, 256, 0, "jpg");
But even though I have silverlight installed, it shows the image with javascript (and I wouldn't expect otherwise ! )
Please let me know how to use this functionality you mentionned !

graphicsxp replied on August 24, 2009 16:21 to the question "Using the Seadragon Windows Azure Service" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem !

>If you only need to show a viewer with an image, that's exactly what our >embed is for, so does that suffice?

Yes, I basically need to show a single image in a viewer. However I've noticed much better performances with Silverlight than with the Seadragon viewer (makes sense actually...). So I'd like to display the image using the silverlight plugin and if my user doesn't have it, then I'll display it using the ajax viewer.
That's my scenario :) Any chance this can be released one day ?

Thanks

graphicsxp marked one of Aseem Kishore's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. Aseem Kishore replied to the question "Displaying a Deepzoom image with Seadragon".

graphicsxp replied on August 22, 2009 20:08 to the question "Displaying a Deepzoom image with Seadragon" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Thank you very much Aseem, that was it.

I'm giving the C# code, in case someone finds this useful :

context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

string url = context.Request["url"];

if (url.StartsWith("http"))
{
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string content = new StreamReader(client.OpenRead(url)).ReadToEnd();
context.Response.Write(content);
}

graphicsxp asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on August 21, 2009 16:24:

Using the Seadragon Windows Azure Service

I understand that this is a Windows Azure service (http://www.seadragon.com/) that is clever enough to display DeepZoom image using AJAX or Silverlight, depending on whether the later is installed or not.
Is there any chances we (developers) can access this service using some sort of API ?
I'm using SeaDragon AJAX to display a DZ image. Do I have to check manually if silverlight is installed if I want to display it in silverlight ?
Thanks

graphicsxp replied on August 20, 2009 16:52 to the question "Displaying a Deepzoom image with Seadragon" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem,
Thanks for helping !

I'm working on my local website indeed. However the deepzoom images are stored on my webserver. See it for yourself :
http://www.metrica.net/output_images/...

I've also put them on my Amazon S3 account and I was getting the same error.

I've done what you said in Firefox, i.e. disabling security, but I'm still getting the same message, which at least tends to prove my deepzoom image is indeed on the webserver !

Anything else I should try ?

graphicsxp replied on August 20, 2009 09:03 to the question "Displaying a Deepzoom image with Seadragon" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Thanks for helping.

I've checked the case and it looks fine.

I forgot to mention that in IE, before the page gets displayed, a popup shows up that says :

'This page is accessing information that is not under its control. This poses a security risk. Do you want to continue ?

If I click 'yes', the image loads fine but if i click 'no' it doesn't, similarly to FF.

What's wrong with my code ?

graphicsxp asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on August 19, 2009 16:59:

Displaying a Deepzoom image with Seadragon

Hi,
Been using the embeded viewer, it works fine with IE and FF.
However when I use my own code, it works only in IE. In FF, I get the message :
"oups... this doesn't appear to be a valid deep zoom image"

my code is simple really :

viewer = new Seadragon.Viewer("container");
viewer.openDzi("path to my xml file");

Why would it work in IE and not in FF (3.5) ?