Flash Slide Show banner
This example uses Flash in the banner to create an automatic slideshow. The slideshow runs continuously. The images are loaded from external jpg files, which keeps the load time minimal. The SWF file is only 4k. It displays a progress bar as each image loads, and images areanimated in using an alpha fade.

Overview
The swf loads an external XML file which contains a listcontaining a text description of each image and the the URL to the jpg files. The file also stores a value which sets the number of seconds to wait between images.

XML
The XML file uses this format:

<slideshow wait="30">
	<image url="image_1.jpg">Text description of image 1</image>
	<image url="image_2.jpg">Text description of image 2</image>
	etc.
</slideshow>

The slideshow tag surrounds all of the tags and contains the wait attribute which sets the number of seconds to wait between each image. Note! The wait time does not include the time to load the images. If the time load images is longer that the wait you may have problems. The image tags contain the text description for each image if any and an attribute that points to the image file.