September 16, 2010

Flash Photo Gallery Part 3: Build a MovieClip to Scroll Thumbnails

Filed under: Flash — admin @ 4:20 pm

This is a 3 part series of articles:

Demo of the SimplePhotoBox Gallery
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April 20, 2010

Build a Flash Photo Gallery Part 2: Build a Photo Detail View and Slide Show

Filed under: Flash — admin @ 5:39 pm

This is a 2 part series of articles:

  1. The PhotoDetail Class: displays an enlarged view of the photo when a thumbnail is selected.
  2. Slide Show Functionality within the PhotoDetail Class. One photo gradually dissolves into the next.
  3. Slide Show Intervals: Allow for automatic operation of the slideshow with a timer interval of 5 seconds.

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December 8, 2009

Build a Flash Photo Gallery Part 1: Read XML file in Flash

Filed under: Flash — admin @ 12:37 pm

Want to create a photo album for your website? This tutorial uses ActionScript to create a Flash photo album. The photos are stored externally and neatly organized using XML. Support for XML is one nice feature of ActionScript. No need to use DOM methods to traverse the XML file. Directly access XML content through tag names and attributes.

This is a 1 part series of articles:

This tutorial describes how to use ActionScript to read an XML file and create thumbnails. SimplePhotoBox is a Flash application that reads XML and image files exported from Picasa and displays a professional looking Photo Gallery and Slide Show.

Demo of the SimplePhotoBox Gallery

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