A QUESTION FOR OUR BETA USERS:

What do you think of the sound effect at the beginning of the program? Some people like it, some don’t. We’d like to get more opinions. 

HELP FILES:

Added Visual Overview to show users how Web galleries are organized and the various layouts that the program generates.

RESOLVED ISSUES:

6403 EB2-W3-Options tab: text edit for group label from “Album audio” to “Album slideshow audio”
6397 IB2-W2-Error while adding Images after creating a Gallery in the same session
6398 IB2-W2-Other Tab Image Cropping default option should be left/top.
6400 IB2-W5-Error “Invalid parameter used.Source:System Drawing.” while generating a gallery.
6401 IB2-W5-Gallery gets generated whithout any name.
6389 IB2-W4-Modify this message to be more apprehensible.
6402 IB2-W2-Pre-populate Item ID field with image filename
6399 IB2-W3-Gallery having only Advert Album can be generated.
6524 IB2-W5-Incorrect validation message
6525 IB2-HTML- Short caption is displayed as Image file name on details all page
6441 IB2-W2-W3-W4-W5-Application can not be closed.
6457 IB2-W2-Incorrect tool tip for video icon.
6526 IB2-W2-Error”Application has generated en exception that could not be handled”
6527 IB2-W5-Error “Index was out of range.Must be a non negative and less than size of collection.”
6419 IB2-W3-Incorrect error message after clicking quickly on next button.
6264 EB2-Step3-Options-Change cropping override for intro animation images
6557 IB2-HTML-generated gallery does not display intro animation
6467 IB2-Error while viewing slide show

8 Responses to “BETA version 2.0.0.30628”

1. Luis Oliveira Says:
   February 4th, 2007 at 8:02 am

   How can I translate the words that appears in the SLIDESHOW mode.
   And the “Prev” and “Next” words, and others words ?
   Thanks for the results of your work.
   Best regards.

2. Richard H. Weiner Says:
   February 4th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

   First of all, I got all the way to the end but an error occured at Generate. I sent an email with the errorlog textfile.

   Second thing is the sound effect at the start of the program. It’s okay, a bit hokey maybe, slightly irritating if you are constantly opening the program and should be an option to turn off. Sorry if this isn’t what you wanted to hear…umm, read.

   RHW

3. Ted Diebold Says:
   February 5th, 2007 at 6:46 am

   I have some questions for you. When I loaded the build # 2.0.0.36708 I was prompted that I needed to update my Macromedia Flash player. When I tried to run Shozami prior to doing that none of the flash worked. So I updated my Flash player. Then the flash worked ok. Now about this time I was prompted to update my Adobe Reader as well. I’m not sure at this time which came first. I have since loaded the latest release of Shozami (2.0.0.25193) and everything is working fine with it but I have developed another problem.
   A Macromedia module “ ~e5d141.tmp “ has been creating havoc with my system. I was wondering if any one else has reported any problem. When I run a Microsoft Direct X application (Flight Simulator 2004) that uses this module to prompt for a disk in a drive in order to run the module takes up to 95% of my cpu usage and hangs the system. Upon researching this on the web it seems that this may be apart of macromedia’s copy protection scheme. I’m just curious if there have been any other reports.
   I have now loaded the latest release of 30628 and there are other issues that I’m trying to deal with. I have been unable to test the video section because of the limited space on my test site. With a very small video and small album plus the Promo album I exceed my size limits. What is the reasoning behind use a Flash player to display video rather than the media players included on most machines?
   I have tried to enter gps coordinates in the fields supplied for lat/long with dismal results. This is a function that I would like to have functional. I entered the data in several formats: N46.18.078 W124.04.622, 46.18.078N 124.04.622W, 46/18.078N 124/04.622 among others. After entering a location in the first field as soon as I start to enter the second location the first field is cleared. I checked the help files which are starting to look very nice and found this section is still not completed.. I don’t know what the format Shozami is looking for and/or if this is even functional yet. I think it would be helpful to have an example of the syntax needed, displayed either prior to the data field or in the help file.
   For me the startup sound is a distraction and I restarted Shosami several times trying to understand what I was missing to see if it was important. I suppose if it is in the finale build I will learn to ignore it.
   I really like the visual over view as it helps me to move around from section to section quickly when trying to edit a gallery.

   Ted

4. admin Says:
   February 5th, 2007 at 11:01 am

   Luis, currently, the labels available to be changed are in the Step 4, Label tab. We have added your request to include the Slideshow labels and other Navigation labels to our feature request. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

5. admin Says:
   February 5th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

   Richard, thank you for submitting the error report and for your feedback on the sound effect. Your comments have been sent to our development team.

6. admin Says:
   February 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

   Ted, Shozam! does not require any Macromedia module. Flash Player browser plugin is needed when viewing any Flash animation on a Web page, such as the Shozam! gallery intro. I believe the Adobe Reader and ~e5d141.tmp are issues not related to Shozam!

   ENTERING MARKER COORDINATES DIRECTLY

   If you know the latitude and longitude for the placemark you are editing, you can enter Latitude and Longitude values.

   Latitude and Longitude can theoretically be expressed using 3 different notations:
   - DDD - Decimal Degrees
   - DMS - Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds
   - DMM - Degrees, Minutes with Decimal Seconds

   Shozam! currently supports only DDD notation.

   DDD notation, decimal precision is set in the *degree* coordinate. Use the minus sign (-) to indicate a westerly or southerly position. When you use this kind of notation, do not specify a letter symbol.

   Additionally, you do not need to use a plus sign (+) to indicate northerly/easterly directions.

   So, for example this is a valid entry:
   37.251907, -122.050840

   The following is NOT a valid entry:
   37.251907N, -122.050840

   We have updated the help files with the information above.

   You can also set coordinates visually like this:
   - Add image to gallery
   - Go to Step2, map tab
   - Click View map button
   - Navigate around the map to find area of interest
   - Click on map to set a marker
   - Click Apply to set the coordinates
   - The coordinates are automatically entered in the wizard

7. Tim Madsen Says:
   February 12th, 2007 at 11:36 am

   I have been unable to complete generating files. Some of the files get generated but the program always hangs my system and I get an error. I am running Vista Ultimate. has anyone else been able to successfully run shozam with Windows Vista ?

   Will the final version have the ability to modify galleries generated by Web Gallery Wizard 1.5 ?

8. Shozam! Team Says:
   February 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

   Tim, we expect a future Beta version to address Vista compatibility issues.