# Filmstrip view
**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [July 21, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841 "2005-07-21T16:50:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@deepkent](https://resource.dopus.com/u/deepkent)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841/1 "2005-07-21T16:50:46Z")
When I choose filmstrip view for my images, the buttons for "start slideshow" and "full screen" are greyed out. Does anyone have any idea why? This didn't happen in Windows Explorer.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Steve](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Steve)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841/2 "2005-07-21T17:03:21Z")
The slideshow and fullscreen modes are actually functions of the standalone viewer rather than the viewer pane in a lister. Both rely on the standalone window to perform the task.
I'm not sure why the options in the viewer pane are not able to launch a standalone viewer to do this - perhaps because no-one has requested it. It is late here though, so there may well be a very obvious reason which is eluding me 🙂
However, it's a minor issue - just double click on your image and you can launch the slideshow/fullscreen options from the standalone viewer pane.
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### Author:  [@deepkent](https://resource.dopus.com/u/deepkent)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841/3 "2005-07-21T18:01:24Z")
Thanks, Tanis - especially for replying at your time of night. I assume you mean that, in the viewer, I press View/Slideshow. But this starts a rather slow slideshow, and I can see no way of varying the length of the display of each image, which Windows Explorer allowed. Can you help on that? Secondly, this must be a bug in the program, I guess: why have buttons that no one can use?
Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841/4 "2005-07-21T21:03:20Z")
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> But this starts a rather slow slideshow, and I can see no way of varying the length of the display of each image
Check out Preferences, Viewer, Slideshow.
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### Author:  [@deepkent](https://resource.dopus.com/u/deepkent)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filmstrip-view/841/5 "2005-07-21T21:55:18Z")
Oh, right - thanks again.