Author

Franck Barbenoire <fbarbenoire@yahoo.fr>

Software version

Version 0.3.6, September 16th, 2013.

License

This software is released under GPL v3 license :

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Introduction

Django-saladoplayer is a django application for displaying spherical panoramas. It is based on the flash panorama viewer SaladoPlayer from Marek Standio. All the necessary flash files and images are embedded whithin the application as static files.

This application enables you to :

• display panorama tours ;
• move from one panorama to another within a panorama tour ;
• display popup texts when the mouse cursor is over an information or panorama hotspot.
• display images. When the hotspot associated to the image is clicked, the image pops up. Click inside the image to make it disappear.
• display a scroll menu. It enabled to choose an image within slide bar menu. When an image is selected, the display rotates towards the place where is located the image hotspot.

All this is available whithout the hassle to configure the html and xml files required by SaladoPlayer. As a consequence, the update of SaladoPlayer application or modules is made easy : no need to update html or xml config files. This is particulary interesting when you have a great number of panorama tours : updates and new features can be applied in one operation. Just update the django-saladoplayer application containing the new modules and the new corresponding templates, that’s all!

Before you can use the application, you must fill a directory tree with panorama images respecting the DeepZoom format. This tree must be availaible to your browser before using it. In the open source world, you can use Python Deep Zoom Tools or SaladoConverter to perform that task. These tools convert an equirectangular panorama image file into lots of image tiles.

Required packages

• From version 0.4.0 django-audiotracks will be required.
• From version 0.3.0, django-photologue is required (and of course Photologue dependences).
• For those who do not want to install extra packages, django-saladoplayer-0.2.4 will be still available but without the image and scroll menu features.