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Malcolm gave praise in Microsoft Live Labs on November 04, 2009 16:32:

I'm quite excited

I've been messing about for the last few days. So now I've built a page with 6 product 'galleries' on the page. There are hyperlinks in the descriptive text under the images that swap in different dzis when clicked. There's an add to cart button per product/image that adds the currently selected (swapped in) image to the cart and a div beneath that displays the server response Ajaxifically. I'm using the Jquery form plugin which is excellent and easy to implement. I've been working with Flash for years to do this zooming and stuff and this just feels much fresher and freer.

Malcolm replied on October 30, 2009 10:16 to the problem "Loading OpenZoomViewer Into an SWF Fails" in OpenZoom:

Hi Daniel,

is that not the reference that I gave above?

initializeKeyboardShortcuts()

That's where it stops executing. This is immediately after

initializeStage()

So I think you are right about the stage being null

Malcolm

Malcolm replied on October 30, 2009 10:12 to the question "Why zoom to more than 100%?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem,

thank you. I figured out how to control it. It's just that I was playing with it for the first time and couldn't see how it might be achieved with the DZC. Once I dived into the code it was quite simple to constrain. I'm a bit puzzled by your statement that zooming past 1:1 would show more detail on a high dpi display though. I can't see how, when you get beyond the actual pixels, you would see more detail. My display is 1920 x 1200 and the image quality degrades when you zoom past full size. Anyway it's a cool thing and I like it so will be playing with it some more for sure.

Malcolm replied on October 28, 2009 16:47 to the question "Why zoom to more than 100%?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Yes I found that. Quite simple really. Thanks for the reply

Malcolm

Malcolm marked one of anthony.ali's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. anthony.ali replied to the question "Why zoom to more than 100%?".

Malcolm replied on October 27, 2009 10:09 to the problem "Loading OpenZoomViewer Into an SWF Fails" in OpenZoom:

Hi Daniel,

I have this problem too. I made a standalone swf by hard-coding the url for the ImageProperties.xml and that worked beautifully - would run without flashvars but when I try to load it into another swf I get

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at OpenZoomViewer/initializeKeyboardShortcuts()
at OpenZoomViewer()

Malcolm

Malcolm asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on October 26, 2009 22:24:

Why zoom to more than 100%?

Why does the viewer allow zooming in to such a high magnification? What is the point of being able to zoom to more than 100%? The image becomes pixellated and blurry at the highest zoom levels. I couldn't figure out how to constrain the max zoom using just the Deep Zoom Composer - can it be done?

Malcolm started following the problem "Loading OpenZoomViewer Into an SWF Fails" in OpenZoom.

Malcolm marked one of Daniel Gasienica's replies in OpenZoom as useful. Daniel Gasienica replied to the question "How Do I Create a Standalone SWF?".

Malcolm asked a question in OpenZoom on July 14, 2009 15:58:

How Do I Create a Standalone SWF?

How to break the dependency on html and Flashvars? One of the things I like about Zoomify is, using the component inspector, one can create a completely independent swf that does not require flashvars to pass the location of the ImageProperties.xml. With OpenZoom Flash we always seem to need to embed the swf in html and add the flashvars parameter. What if I want a standalone swf that you could browse to directly? Can this be done?