NAME

Time::Slideshow - simple stateless slideshow with a fixed set of images

SYNOPSIS

    my $slideshow= Time::Slideshow->new(
        starttime => 0,
        slides => [ 'picture1.jpg', 'picture2.jpg' ],
        shuffle => 0, # pseudo-rng
        duration => 45, # show each slide for 45 seconds
    );
    my $current_slide= $slideshow->current_slide;           # picture1.jpg
    my $next_slide= $slideshow->next_slide;                 # picture2.jpg
    sleep $slideshow->seconds_to_next_slide;

OVERVIEW

This module abstracts the inner workings of a slideshow, selecting the next slide to display and calculating the time until the next picture. It is possible to use this object in an asynchronous manner across machines as the complete slide sequence is precalculated from the wallclock time.

The module has no methods to advance the slideshow forwards or backwards other than through the passage of time.

METHODS

Time::Slideshow->new %options

  my $slideshow= Time::Slideshow->new(
      slides => [ glob '~/backgrounds/*.jpg' ],
      duration => 300, # five minutes per image
      shuffle => 1, # permute the order of images
  )

Creates a new slideshow object and returns it. The options are

slides

Array reference to the slides. These can be filenames or URLs or whatever else helps your program to find and display the appropriate image.

duration

The time how long every image is displayed, in seconds. The default value is 45.

shuffle

If you want the order of the images to be shuffled, pass a true value to this option. See the below discussion on what different orders you can expect from shuffling.

starttime

If you want to set up a different offset of the start time, pass this option with the epoch value of the start time. Usually, you want to leave this parameter at its default of 0.

$show->add_slide( @slides )

  $show->add_slide( glob '~/new_backgrounds/*' );

If you want to add slides after object creation, you can use this method.

$show->current_slide

  print "Now displaying ", $show->current_slide, "\n";

Returns the name of the slide that is currently displayed.

This method is the central method for your application to get the filename or URL of the image that your application needs to display.

$show->next_slide

  print "Next up is ", $show->next_slide, "\n";

Returns the name of the slide that will be displayed after the current slide.

You can use this method to preload the image data for the upcoming slide.

$show->seconds_to_next_slide

  my $wait= $show->seconds_to_next_slide;
  sleep $wait;

Returns the time remaining to the next slide transition.

You can use this method to pause your program or perform other tasks until the next image needs to be displayed.

$show->current_slide_index

  my $current_slide_index= $show->current_slide_index;

This returns the index of the slide that is currently displayed.

Most likely, you want to use $show->current_slide instead.

$show->slide_at $index

    my $slide_count= @{ $show->slides };
    for my $slide ( 0..$slide_count-1 ) {
        print "Slide $slide: ", $show->slide_at( $slide ), "\n";
    };

Returns the name of the slide at the given index.

SHUFFLING PERMUTATIONS

This module does not use the real permutations of the slides,

INTEGRATION

Console

This is the most basic slideshow display. It demonstrates the functionality of the module but only outputs the text. Displaying the image itself is left to you to implement with your favourite image display method.

  use Time::Slideshow;

  my $s= Time::Slideshow->new(
      slides => [ glob 'slides/*.jpg' ],
  );

  while(1) {
      print sprintf "Now showing slide '%s'\n", $s->current_slide;
      print sprintf "Next up is '%s'\n', $s->next_slide;

      sleep( $s->seconds_to_next_slide );
  };

AnyEvent

This example uses AnyEvent to show how you can perform other tasks while also reacting to the timer events to display a new image.

  use AnyEvent;
  use Time::Slideshow;

  my $s= Time::Slideshow->new(
      slides => [ glob 'slides/*.jpg' ],
  );

  my $slideshow_timer;
  my $display_and_reschedule; $display_and_reschedule= sub {
      print sprintf "Now showing slide '%s'\n", $s->current_slide;
      print sprintf "Next up is '%s'\n', $s->next_slide;
      $slideshow_timer= AnyEvent->timer(
          after => $s->seconds_to_next_slide,
          cb => $display_and_reschedule,
      );
  };
  $display_and_reschedule->();

  # Wait and do other stuff
  AnyEvent->condvar->recv;

CGI

This example assumes that your images are available via your webserver under the URL /slides and will display a page that shows the same image to all users that load that page.

  use CGI;
  use Time::Slideshow;

  my $s= Time::Slideshow->new(
      slides => [ glob 'slides/*.jpg' ],
  );

  my $image= "/" . $s->current_slide;
  my $reload= $s->seconds_to_next_slide;
  my $q= CGI->new;
  print $q->header('text/html');
  print <<HTML;
      <html>
      <head>
          <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="$reload">
      </head>
      <body><img src="$image" /></body></html>
  HTML

Prima

Using Prima, we can create an application with a natve UI that displays the images. Not implemented here are the resizing or zooming of the images to the window size.

  use Prima qw(Application ImageViewer);
  use Time::Slideshow;

  my $s= Time::Slideshow->new(
      slides => [ glob 'demo/*.png' ],
  );
  my $window = Prima::MainWindow->new();
  my $image = $window->insert( ImageViewer =>
      growMode => gm::Client,
      rect => [0, 0, $window->width, $window->height],
      autoZoom => 1,
  );
  my $filename = $s->current_slide;
  $image->imageFile($filename);
  $window->insert( Timer =>
      timeout => 5000, # checking every 5 seconds is enough
      onTick  => sub {
          if( $s->current_slide ne $filename ) {
              $filename = $s->current_slide;
              $image->imageFile($filename);
          };
      }
  )->start;

  Prima->run;

REPOSITORY

The public repository of this module is http://github.com/Corion/time-slideshow.

SUPPORT

The public support forum of this module is http://perlmonks.org/.

BUG TRACKER

Please report bugs in this module via the RT CPAN bug queue at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Time-Slideshow or via mail to time-slideshow@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Max Maischein corion@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT (c)

Copyright 2014-2016 by Max Maischein corion@cpan.org.

LICENSE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Time::Slideshow

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Time::Slideshow