Show your photos with hotspots in style

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As you see from the demo, you can add rich hotspots to your pictures. Hotspot content includes images, text, geometric shapes, free-form image contours, animations, sound and video. You could design hotspot layouts in Microsoft Expression Blend or use the Hotspot Editor to add, update, delete, copy, move and position hotspots on your photos.

Technology

operating systems	Microsoft Windows or Mac OS
rendering	Silverlight
browsers	Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari
image file formats	JPEG, sloVH XML, MOV (QTVR), KRpano XML, Flash Panorama Player see below for input file details
projection	orthographic 2D with wrapping for 360-degree JPEG panoramas perspective 3D for cubic panoramas in format QTVR(.mov), KRpano and FPP
hotspots script	XAML

Hotspot Features

• rich media support - pictures, drawings, text, sound, video, animation
• three customizable events - OnEnter, OnLeave and OnClick
• three options for hotspot navigation targets:
  • URL of a webpage
  • link to another panorama sloVH XML file
  • commands to show visual elements like graphics, text, video, buttons, links, etc.
• contour hotspots around important parts of the image
• customizable hotspot scalability
• add your custom XML data for hotspots
• full designer support for Expression Blend
• custom visual templates for Default, Contour, Ellipse and Rectangle hotspots in Editor

Viewer Input Files

input file format	projection type	view contained hotspots	permission XML file needed if remote(*)	details
Image with Hotspots
sloVH XML or Blend XAML	orthographic 2D	yes	yes	can reference any of the image files below (JPEG, MOV, KRP, FPP)
single JPEG with embedded hotspots	orthographic 2D	yes	yes	name can contain a keyword string: "360" - full 360° panorama "wide" - partial panorama if width:height > 5:1
Image only
single JPEG	orthographic 2D	n/a	no	same as above
single MOV (QTVR)	3D/2D for cubic, 2D for cylinder	no	yes**	Adobe QTVR (non-supported are non-JPEG images, vertical cylinders, compressed headers)
KRpano XML (KRP)	3D or 2D	no	yes	advanced features not supported
Flash Panorama Player (FPP)	3D or 2D	no	no	depending on file suffixes, FileType is "FPP" or "FPP0"

(*) - permission file clientaccesspolicy.xml or crossdomain.xml needed at the hosting server if different than the Viewer hosting server. More information here. (**) Any remote MOV file opened manually through the Viewer does not need a server permission file.

Operation Flow Diagram