How to use the Gallery Slide Show

The photo Gallery Slide Show will bring up each successive photos of my Gallery Photo Albums, without the usual many second wait for that photo to download. These instructions will help you become proficient in viewing photos on the "php Photo Gallery Web Pages" used on this WebSite.

(Suggestion: You may want to make a print of these instructions, you are now reading, so you can have the them in your hand as you try to operate the computer and simultaneously understand your computer's (hard to perceive) reactions to your various Mouse Clicks.)

Step 1: To go to a ZMM Photo Album, click on http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album03. You should see the so-called "thumbnails" (small photos) of ZMM Part I Chapters 2 thru 7. Take several minutes to study these small pictures and the captions below them.

Step 2: On this page, upper right, you will see the words "Slide Show." Click on it. This will start the Slide show on your computer. Your computer will bring up, successively, the first pictures of the Album with about a 3 second delay between each. For the moment ignore the pictures, and instead move your mouse pointer along the words at the top of your screen. As you move your mouse over certain words, observe that they change color. These are the various "click points" which respectively control the various actions of the slide show at the top of this album page. Take several minutes to study these controls, but for now, do not click. Once you complete the instructions below, you will be able to figure out many of these controls (and click on them) without my additional help.

Step 3: By now your computer should have quickly cycled through several (fairly large sized) photographs. To allow longer time to view each picture, change the viewing time in the little window top center from 3 (seconds), to say 20 (seconds). This will give you enough time to see the photo and read a bit of the photo caption (if any) at the bottom. To see the entire picture (or caption) you may have to use the "up-down--right-left) scroll bars to "slide the picture" for a better view. On some Internet browsers, the "mouse click drag on the picture" may also be successful. As each new picture comes up, you will probably have to again use the slide bars to readjust the picture position. The slide show should eventually cycle through all the pictures in the album. Occasionally you need more time to study a certain photo. To do this, click on the "stop" at upper left. As you do this, note this click point changes from "stop" to "play". This means it is now ready for your next click to start the play again. Since this takes some getting used to, you should repeat these "play/stop" actions until you are no longer confused. The "play/stop" action allows you to study the picture as long as you want and then move ahead when you are ready.

Step 4: On MS Windows computers (only), there is a more convenient way to start (or stop) the slide show: Having performed the above (MUST), now press the "Enter Key" and simultaneously watch the "stop" & "play" upper left. Now, as you do several more "Enter Key Presses," also note the address line at the lower left of the ZMMQ Gallery webpages. Continue to press the "Enter Key," several more times. You will see you are being told (both top & bottom) what the slide show is doing!

Step 5: After having clicked on "stop" as discussed above, you can finish reading and studying the photo. When you are ready to see the next photo, press the "enter key" twice. This start-stop action will immediately show you the next photo. Try it now. You will like it!!

Detailed Information Concerning My ZMMQ Photo Gallery Album Called "Researched Sights and Scenes Along the Travel Route of Book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is here.

http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/HelpandDetails