large image catalog

[Iluvatar]

Hi everybody.

I'm actually working with a catalog of images for an electronic edition of a an anthology.
What I want to do with it is load various images into a movie, one at the time, contained in individual flash movies (*.swf) sequentaly named (a0, a1, ...) and control the flow of the movies being loaded with two buttons ("forward", "back&quot. The little big problem is that the total number of images to display is 185, o you'll see it's a very tedious work. Is there any way to automate the process of making this individual movies?. And, Is there a way I can assign some code to the control buttons in a way that I don't have to replace instructions for every individual movie; i.e. assign the name of the file to be loaded for each button in every movie?.

Best regards.

Iluvatar.

 

[wildcat14]

What is your purpose for having individual movies?

 

[katiekat]

Can't you have some sort of variable loading thing going on instead of making individual movies for each page? Holy tek-tips batman!:-0

 

[davdesign]

I see your reasoning for having individual movies if each individual is large and download time is of the essence. At present Macromedia haven't developed a flash-batch-processor so your stuck with making them individually.

As far as loading control goes, what is your interface? Are you gonna have 100+ buttons on the screen? Need more info on how the user would select which of the 100+ to view.

dave
ps: just how big is each individual swf? dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[Iluvatar]

Hi everyone. Thanks for your tips.
I think davdesign is totally right, it's not the size of the movies what bugs me, I was (I'm still) trying to make the process of making this movies automatic. Recently I've downloaded a trial version of Macromedia Generator hoping it would work; I've read some of the documentation but I don't really find a way to make it useful for this problem.

Regarding the control flow, it's not very important because users are intended to treat the movie as if it was a book. You go through pages one by one, or you can jump to separate chapters using an index (i've worked this part out). So the number of buttons comes down to 9 buttons: drag page up, down, right, left, zoom in, zoom out, next page, previous page, index.

I hope someone can help me find a way to automate the creation of this movies. I would help me a lot because this proposition of making this "books" avaibable in the web for our students has been received quite well by the directives of my school.

Thanks again and best regards.

Iluvatar.

 

[Smidy]

Hi Iluvatar,

It's been a while since you posted your problem. I am trying to do something similar to your original question.

I have one question: The SWF files that contain your images, are there one or more of them in each file. If just one, then you could use a combination of HTML frame and flash buttons to call a HTML page that contains JAVAscript code to display the individual images (JPEG for instance). This may be out of your design way, but is another option. However, if you have found a way to script flash to open unique named files, please let me know.

My similar problem is to create a flash movie which displays images (in JPG) located outside of flash. By changing the external image to a new one, and running the movie, it would display the new image without the need to rebuild the SWF. The movie would be a "Template", and by changing 50 images, would end up with a whole new movie just by changing external image files.

With your experience, can you see this working with FLASH4 or 5 scripting??

Thanks,

George.

 

[oldnewbie]

George,
Have a look at this thread250-137883

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

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