Thanks Phoenix. I don't think that for the scenario I have outlined above I will be needing hotspots, links etc. Probably just one or two links per advert, such as "Click here to see the kitchen", "Click here to see the pool area". At which point I would like new browser window to open (at the right size preferably) and the appropriate 360x180 pano to play.

Is it possible to do this just using the files output by PW 4.0 or do I need to use PTviewer (or Tourweaver)? Bearing in mind that I want to minimise what is downloaded to the computer of the person viewing the panorama.

Thanks
Glenn

1.you need the html file that pw gives you. ex.  pano_kitchen.html

on this html file, edit and put a link to pano_pool.html

2. you need the html file that pw gives you. ex.  pano_pool.html

on this html file, edit and put a link to pano_kitchen.html

3.upload ptviewer.jar

4. upload the pano images (kitchen.jpg and pool.jpg)

upload all of the above in the same directory  www.yoursite.com/directory/

then you can view the pano at www.yoursite.com/directory/pano_kitchen.html

and view www.yoursite.com/directory/pano_pool.html

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now you can send the links to your clients to see.

when you have accomplished all the above,

let me know and ill give you the code so that the window

opens to the perfect size you want.

Mr VT360

Top information, should do exactly what I need. I do have one slight issue though. Every panorama I publish results in a jpeg file in the "Scene" directory called "pano". I don't see a way in PW to change the name of the output "Scene" jpeg. So I am stuck on your step 4 "4. upload the pano images (kitchen.jpg and pool.jpg)", because I may have produced 20 panos, but every one's jpeg is called "pano"! If I manually change the name to something else, then of course the panorama no longer plays in the HTML doc.

Can you advise please???

Thanks
Glenn

rename the pano.jpeg needs to  kitchen.jpeg 

the pano_kitchen.html  must be edited by hand and change pano.jpeg to kitchen.jpeg

you can open yout html file in notepad then look for where it says "pano.jpeg" and change  to "kitchen.jpeg"

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upload kitchen.jpeg

upload pano_kitchen.html

There is no reference to pano.jpeg / pano.jpg in any HTML file generated by PW4.0. Thats why I am so perplexed??? I think the reference to pano.jpeg must be embeded in the "config" file which resides in the Skin zip file. I am probably wrong, BUT if I am right can I edit this? If so how?

Any ideas?

Thanks for your prompt reply VT.
Glenn

Can you paste the html generated by pw4?

Look in the html generated for something like this

<PARAM NAME=file value="LOOK HERE for pic name.jpg">

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Panoweaver 4.0 outputs the same as Tourweaver it does not use PTViewer but rather Easypano's own viewer.

Here is the sample applet html code

<applet
codebase  = "."
archive   = "twviewer.jar"
code      = "com.easypano.tw.TWViewer.class"
name      = "TWViewer"
width     = "640"
height    = "480"
hspace    = "0"
vspace    = "0"
mayscript = "true"
>
<PARAM name = iniFile    value = "Config.tx1">
<PARAM name = skin.bgcolor    value = "255, 255, 255">
<PARAM name = skin.waitingimg   value = "Skin/waiting.gif">
<PARAM name = skin.archive    value = "Skin_pano1.zip">
<PARAM name = skin.archive.itemnum  value = "27">
<PARAM name = progress.color   value = "58, 110, 165">
<PARAM name = progress.bounds   value = "160, 360, 320, 20">
<PARAM name = comappletname   value = "UserApplet1">
</applet>

The outputted files consist of the following:

• Scene (folder) contents = pano.jpg
• Skin_nameofpanorama.zip contents = menubar images & Config.tx1 file
• twviewer.jar
• nameofpanorama.html (sample .html page)
• getsunjava.gif (for download link on sample .html page)

Tourweaver is designed to be the software for linking and making the tour. That said, there is no reason why you couldn't just make multiple .html pages with different panoramas and link them via hyperlinks. You could quite easily make a template main page and have the viewer display via an iframe.

Regards, Smooth

Hi, cuetoyou,

If you want to keep it simple:

Stitch your panorama and save the result to a jpg file as usual.

Open your html editor and make a new blank page.

Insert the following code into the body of this page, between <body> and </body>:

<APPLET archive = "ptviewer.jar" code = "ptviewer.class" width = 300 height = 250>

<PARAM name = file value = mypano.jpg>

<PARAM name = auto value = 0.2>

<PARAM name = fov value = 80>
</Applet>

Replace mypano.jpg by the name of your own pano. Change width and height to the values you prefer, change auto (autorotation) to your prefered value and also fov (field of view).

Save this HTML page in a folder together with ptviewer.jar and your panorama file. If you click the html document, the pano will be shown in your webbrowser. If you present it at the web, the only files which will be downloaded by the visitor are: your jpg file (150 kB), your html file (2 kB), ptViewer.jar (28 kB).

If you want to send some examples to a customer: Use a software like "HTML Executable" to pack all files into one exe-file. This can be sent via eMail to your customer. When he doubleclicks the file, it will be automatically unpacked into a temporary folder (he will not notice this), and your pano will be shown in his webbrowser.

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Holger Schulz, photoaround
http://www.photoaround.de