How can I make a screensaver with Zoomify?
The Zoomify Viewer includes support for a powerful yet intuitive set of methods that make up the Zoomify ActionScript API. Included in these is the method zoomToView(). This method takes several parameters: an x, y, and zoom coordinate, a number of steps to make from the current view to the new coordinates, and an interval of time over which to spread those steps. Using this function and the random number generation as well as the ‘interval support in ActionScript it is a simple matter to create a function that starts a time-based process which repeatedly repositions the view to some new are of the image at some new level of zoom. As an alternative, the Zoomify Slideshow Viewer or Zoomify Tour Viewer – included in the Zoomify Design and Zoomify Flash products – could be used to cycle through different images or different views of the same image. As these are ready-made Viewers they may suffice for many uses. Each of the above approaches does involve having a browser loaded – to avoid t
