Tutorial: how to create flash slideshow movie with effects from JPG images using SWF SlideShow Scout library and VBScript (Visual Basic script)

Quick Guide: How to create flash slide animation movie
with effects from VBScript using SWF SlideShow Scout library
"Hello, World!"example

You can download the source code of this example here: swfslideshowscout_vbscript.zip

SWF SlideShow Scout library can be used in scripting languages like VBScript and Javascript and ASP/ASP.NET.

This page will show how demonstrate how to generate the flash slideshow animation movie using VBScript and SWF SlideShow Scout library.

Windows 98/2000/ME/XP have built-in VBScript support and all files with ".VBS" are recognized as VBScript files and can be executed by system.

1) Install SWF SlideShow Scout library on your computer

2) Run Notepad

3) To create SWF flash slideshow animation movie in VBScript we have to write a very simple script:

Set SlideShow = CreateObject("SWFSlideShowScout.SlideShow")

' initialize library
SlideShow.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"

SlideShow.BeginSlideShow 320, 240

' slide #1, show with "stetMosaicLarge" effect (11 = stetMosaicLarge), 1000 msec
SlideShow.AddSlideFromFileName "Slide1.jpg", 11, 1000
SlideShow.AddDelay 1000

' slide #2, show with "stetBlur" effect (6 = stetBlur), 1000 msec
SlideShow.AddSlideFromFileName "Slide2.jpg", 6, 1000
SlideShow.AddDelay 1000

' slide #3, show with "stetZoomCircle" effect (29 = stetZoomCircle), 1000 msec
SlideShow.AddSlideFromFileName "Slide3.jpg", 29, 1000
SlideShow.AddDelay 1000

' slide #4, show with "stetLiquid" effect (37 = stetLiquid), 1000 msec
SlideShow.AddSlideFromFileName "Slide4.jpg", 37, 1000
SlideShow.AddDelay 1000

' slide #5, show with "stetShuttersBias" effect (16 = stetShuttersBias), 1000 msec
SlideShow.AddSlideFromFileName "Slide5.jpg", 16, 1000
SlideShow.AddDelay 2000

' save to flash movie file
SlideShow.SaveToFile "HelloWorld.swf"

' free slideshow object
Set SlideShow = nothing

Feel free to copy code from this page, paste into the notepad and save as a "HelloWorld.VBS":

Make sure you have added slide1.jpg, slide2.jpg .. slide5.jpg into the same folder (or you can find a sample files in /examples/VBScript/ sub-folder of SWF SlideShow Scout installation)

4) Double-click "HelloWorld.VBS" file from Explorer or from another file manager and script will be executed and will generate HelloWorld.swf flash slideshow movie

You can view generated flash slideshow file (.SWF) using Internet Explorer, Flash Player, Firefox with flash plugin installed or any other application that is capable displaying of flash animations:

You can download the source code of this example here: swfslideshowscout_vbscript.zip

"Hello, World!" flash slideshow movie generation examples for different programming languages will guide you step by step from the very beginning:

On-line documentation (HTML format)

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