photo gallery help 2

[disfasia]

Hi. I am teaching a class and I am putting about 40 photos online. They are too heavy to put in one swf (I already and stupidly tried that!) But I have a clear idea of what I want--I have designed the intro page with a forward and backward button to scroll through each photo. I also have a final index where I have miniatures of each of these 40 photos so that my students can review particular photos without having to rescroll through all forty.

Here are my questions:

1. How do I load the photos with their titles? I thought of an swf for each one, but I do not know what is best?

2. How do I call the "next" and "back" buttons--that is, what would the script be for this?

3. Then, how do I script the thumnails of the photos which will not go back and forward but to a specific photo?

Thanks so so much in advance! Peace.

disfaisa

 

[oldnewbie]

Try this...

http://www.flashcomponents.net/component.cfm?nav=2&id=275

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

this one handles thumbnails and captions rather nicely

http://www.actionscripts.org/components/showComponent.php?id=8

 

[disfasia]

Thanks oldnewbie, but I cannot open the .fla Is this because I have Flash 5.0a ?

I have been trying everything to open the file. Any suggestions?

best,

julian

 

[disfasia]

dear billwatson,

thanks for that link...it looks great!

best,

julian

 

[disfasia]

ooops, I spoke to soon billwatson...i also cannot open the .fla. Must I upgrade to higher flash version?

best

disfasia

 

[oldnewbie]

But still a component!

Regards,

 

[disfasia]

What do you mean, "but still a component"?

how can I open the .fla?

thanks

disfasia

 

[oldnewbie]

Components -> Flash MX.

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

those components will not work with flash 5. you need mx.

if 5 is all you have to work with then something a bit more basic will be needed.

i can put you together a basic slideshow in 5 if thats any help.

 

[disfasia]

Could you do that billwatson? I have been waiting since february for my computer--a university strike has delayed it to say the least. So I am on OS 9.2 and cannot even take use the free trial of the new Flash.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could mock one up for me...

thanks

disfasia

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/applications/jpeg_slideshow_xml/

http://www.tiemdesign.com/HOWTO/2001/Nov/FlashSS/default.htm

http://www.developingwebs.net/flash/slideshow.php

http://interactive.colum.edu/imazine/imazine/emre/xmlslide/

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

very basic

http://billwatson.no-ip.info/public/slideshow5.zip

 

[disfasia]

Thanks so much...but I cannot open the .fla? Can you verify that it is in flash 5 because it will not open.
thanks again

disfasia

 

[disfasia]

thanks for the links oldnewbie also!

best,

disfasia

 

[billwatson]

yes its flash 5

 

[disfasia]

Well, I cannot open it. In fact, I notice the file is white and has a grey bevel hue which none of my other .flas have. Could this be a result of your using osX or something? I have tried everything to open it...

thanks again

disfasia

 

[disfasia]

Another problem cam up: I used the model here

http://www.tiemdesign.com/HOWTO/2001/Nov/FlashSS/default.htm

for writing the scripts and my file is 3.5 mgb and when i load it to my site (i was thinking i need a long preload, ok) only the background shows up!!!

Why is this?

thanks

disfasia

 

[billwatson]

maybe you are using a mac..i dont know


however v. quick to recreate

open a new flash file and make 2 buttons (next and previous). place an empty clip on stage and give it an instance name of picholder

frame 1 actions

_global.i = 1;
loadMovie("1.jpg",picholder)

next button code

on (release) {
	i++
	if(i>=6)i=1
	loadMovie(i + ".jpg",picholder)
}

previous button code

on (release) {
	i--
	if(i<=0)i=6
	loadMovie(i + &quot;.jpg&quot;,picholder)
}

thats it. just make sure the jpgs are in the same folder

 

[oldnewbie]

Can you make your .fla available? But if you're on Mac, it will have to be zipped up for us to open it!

Regards,