Interactive playlist widgets

This page is related to playlist and interactive widgets.

Description

These widgets allow to interactively change the regular flow of a playlist over the network, both forward and backward - a Shared Variable is used to control which page the widget should switch to.

For the Interactive Playlist widget, you can specify which is the next content page to jump to, thus allowing to specify different flows within the playlist.

The Interactive File Playlist widget generates the playlist content from the content of a media folder; to switch to a certain media, update the Shared Variable to its index in the playlist.

• Category: Interactivity, Playlists
• Author: SpinetiX S.A.
• License: GPL Version 3
• Target: Elementi

Interactive Playlist

Interactive Playlist

Version: 3 (revision history)

Release date: 2023-08-14

This widget is an extension of the Elementi built-in "Action to Switch" interactive widget, adding a playlist type of behavior to the original widget.

Playlist behavior:

Once the current content page (e.g., media file, Playlist, Layout etc.) has finished playing, the widget will switch to the next page (as opposed to always switching to the first one). You can specify which is the next content page to jump to (thus allowing to specify different flows within the playlist), otherwise the next page from the list will be picked.

Interactive behavior:

Whenever the Shared Variable used to control the widget is updated to one of the values specified under the "Action" column on the "Pages" view, the widget will switch to that particular content page. Additionally, this widget can switch to the next or previous content page using the "shortcut" values defined under Properties.

Note:

Starting with version 3, when a new page is loaded, the control Shared Variable is automatically updated to its "action" label.

Interactive File Playlist

Interactive File Playlist

Version 1.0 (2013-09-26)

This widget is a combination of the "Action to Switch" interactive widget and the File Playlist widget, adding interactivity to a media playlist generated from the content of a folder. It allows displaying all the media files (usually images and videos) from a folder as a playlist, but having also the possibility to interactively switch from one file to another.

File Playlist behavior:

All the files of the specified folder will be played in a sequential order. See more details about how to configure the source folder.

Interactive behavior:

Whenever the Shared Variable used to control the widget is updated to one of the values specified under "Properties", it will switch to the next or previous item of the playlist. Additionally, when receiving the value '0' it will switch to the first item of the playlist, when receiving the value '1', the the second item and so on.

Configuration

The following properties, found under the "Properties" tab in Edit panel, can be used to customize the widget:

• Shared Variable

  Enter the name of the Shared Variable used for controlling the widget.

• Next Action & Previous Action

  Enter the value to update the Shared Variable to in order to switch to the next / previous page.

• Pause Action & Resume Action

  Enter the value to update the Shared Variable to in order to pause / resume the current page.

• Close Action

  Enter the value to update the Shared Variable to in order to end the document.

• Multiscreen synchronization

  Set on true in case of synchronized content.

Note:

To modify the playlist-related properties of the widget, click on the icon from the toolbar to open the "Document Properties" dialog.