Thumbnails ??

[domhurley]

Does anyone know the best way about this. I've got a selction of photos that are to be added to a page. I thought maybe they'd be the obvious thumbnailed views which when clicked on give a larger view.
Does anyone know the best way about this or have any other better ideas of how to go about it.

Cheers

Dom

ww.domhurley.co.uk

 

[davdesign]

hi

I'm doing this at the moment for a website :

http://www.callnetuk.com/home/davdesign/pinkzep/top.html

I made the thumbnails using Photoshop, resized to 100x100. The larger images are put on a separate swf, one image per frame (with a blank frame1 with stop action) and loaded into the main movie. The scrolling gallery has the thumbnails, each given button behaviour including the action:

On (Press)
Begin Tell Target ("_level1"
Go to and Stop (corresponding-picture-frame)
End Tell Target
End On

Hope it helps.
dD davdesign@hotmail.com

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[davdesign]

sorry, link should be:

http://www.callnetuk.com/home/davdesign/pinkzep/top.htm

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[davdesign]

dom,

Fla's on their way.

An afterthought that someone might want to try, You could put the buttons within movie-clips. On (Press) you could duplicate the movie-clip, setting the X_Scale and Y_Scale to suit a larger size, On (Press) of another button just remove the prevous and replace with another new duplicate.

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[davdesign]

hi again

Try this solution first:
[ul][li]Create a layer for inserting your pictures, keep the first frame blank, then insert blank keyframes from frame2 onwards. Import (Ctrl+r) your pictures one-by-one into progressive frames and label the frames "pic1", "pic2" etc.[/li][li]Create a layer above your picture layer for your buttons. In the first frame insert your buttons with the actions:

On (press)
Go to and Stop (&quot;pic1&quot <--pic2,pic3,etc for each button
End On

To create your buttons (ignore what I said above, been a long day), just drag the corresponding images from your library and reduce them using &quot;Transform&quot;. This saves the swf loading 2 separate verions of the picture.[/li]

[li]Set up an Action layer above the two existing layers and put a Stop action in the first frame.[/li]

[li]Now, on your Action and Button layers insert Blank frames to the last picture frame. This maintains the &quot;Stop&quot; action throughout as well as Keeping the buttons 'above' the pictures in the event that they 'bleed' into your button area.

The gif below shows an example of the layers used in a 4-picture scenario. You can view this at :

http://www.callnetuk.com/home/davdesign/dom/version2.html

Hope it helps
dD

(if all these posts seem confusing it's cos I resigned today and I ain't used to experiencing daylight and TV together!!!)

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