Album Slide

Thank you so much for this! Helped me alot! :D

What are the licensing for this source?

Can this be edited and used in a commercial project?

Hi, this is just what I've been looking for. But I can't open the Source file? I've got flash, but it just shows a blank screen?
Please Help!

double click on the single frame with the 'a' at the top, it should open the action script window below.

i cant get it to load, and Im also wondering if there is a way to link the images into a different folder instead of the index folder...

Which catalogues I must create? Please help?

Any ideas on how to get this working with Actionscript 3.0 Seems to be an issues with the caption text. I would love to take advantage of this with some of the new features in 3.0.

I would also be great to have an option for auto scroll. So when it loads it will automatically "slideshow" the image until you take control.

Does anyone know how to import this onto a larger canvas because the slider bar follows the mouse around the page, i know i need to change the parameters just not sure which ones! Thanks

I feel like a total moron but I cant figure out what exactly to do. Like step by step. If I saw the completed work I would lok at all the coding and stuff to figure it out but what I think there is here is a skeleton that I am to drop things in to to flesh it out. But without a completed version I have no clue what to do any help would be great.
Thanks

I have this working perfect, what do I need to take out script wise that it comes in to the center and doesnt slide, just magnify's....

Any suggestions as to how this can be accomplished in as3?

I am having trouble loading my images. My previews never move past the loading icon. Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

John Thanksssss!!!!! you are a genious, love this program.
Thanks again is perfect, about a month looking for program like that.
Greetings From Argentine.

Hi, for an eventual update!! Is it possible to make that the xml read directly the contents of a pics directory and that it creates automatically thumbnails rather than have to create a thumbnail and coding the xml for every pics to be made show? Thank you!!

I have no idea how to get this working...anyone help??

I have also no idea how to get this working, actually I have need a tutorial that how can use it.

Also make sure you remove all slashes (/'s) from the xml image location. It now works perfectly.

Enjoy!

Ok I've spent a day getting the error that constantly has the preloader on the screen. this is because the actionscript is conflicting with the javascript and it's confused with the file locations. This looping preloader problem goes away once you move the images into the same folder as the stadard player files are. Note: make sure to change the path in the xml file to just the base directory too.

Any ideas on how to make this work ... instructions anyone?..I'm new to this

Hi there

Anyone any idea how you make some more dynamic text come up at the side of the main image (more of a description relating to each pic) after you've clicked on the thumbnail?

Thanks

Giggs

OK it works great! Just one more question, where does this go? <object data="39-albumslide.swf?xmlfile=someotherxmlfile.xml" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="39-albumslide.swf?xmlfile=someotherxmlfile.xml"/>
</object>

Im trying to use 3 of these sliders with different images in one project. They all work except they all load the same images as the first slider i view even though my xmls are named differently. im changing the xml name in the slider container. _parent._root.xmlfile = "sliderfeed02.xml"; Any suggestions?

how do you change the font and the size of the caption? is there any ways that i can enter text in multiple lines rather than a single one? help please...

To change the font size and amount of lines, select the caption box and change the properties in the properties window.

in your source file it doesnt include images just an fla file that has a pre-loader but doesnt actually work their are bugs and error warnings across the board. would be nice if you had a step by step tutorial on how we can create our own files in stead of copying over yours id like to learn how to create this image gallery myself.

i dint get any imaged folder, should i download if from the site please help its urgent, i dint get the xml file too, should i create that too or please give me a solution.

finaly i found it out myself thanks for this tutorial

Excellent! It was very helpfull!
Alin

Hi friends, i need to get this working in a 1024x768 size eyond a limit the stip of images follows the mouse how to control that part, i need to alter the measurment not sure of which part. ge me a soulution.

Don't even waste your time unless you have a real good knowledge of Flash and how to use XML. This is total crap !

Hi everything works great except that the image box is distorting some of my images. I have some Vector illustrations that are coming out with very jagged outlines and some of the other images are coming out pixely. I've increased the size of the image box from 500 X 300 px to 982 X 607 px but it displays the images as distorted in the original unchanged box as well. I've tried changing image formats but it does not help. If there is anything anyone can think of to fix this problem it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

it's a nice gallery! But there is one big question: How can I get the border away, if a photo is selected?

And how can I delete the shadow of the pictures? Please help!

When I enter a Url of a remote machine into the XML file the image does not load but the reflection does without the gradient shadow. I moved the images to the same machine and all is fine.
An example is to put in the Google image in the xml file.
Any help would be appreciated.

Steve, are the xml file and flash file on different domains? If so, that's probably the problem. You can get around this by writing a script on your own domain that reads the xml file on the other site and spits it out as an xml file on your own site.

Question, is it possible to use create a hyperlink from the main photo in the album to a new browser window?

Thanks,

Shawn

Hi John,

The xml is on the same domain.
If I put 2 url's in the XML file, one local and one remote the local url works but the remote doesn't.
The remote url is sometimes loaded but the alpha shadow is solid.
If I then move the remote file to my machine and change the xml file to the local address it works, so its not the image.

Many thanks for a great program,

Steve

I may have been unclear, it appears to be the difference between an http reference and a local drive reference.

Steve.

Steve, I think it's a built in sandbox security feature of flash.

I know what you mean, I will run up a proxy and test some more,
Many thanks
Steve

What is with question: is it possible to create a hyperlink from the main photo in the album to a new browser window.
Please any solution.

GREAT! xD

Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler.What dose that mean...Pleas help:((

Hi i am a beginner at flash as2 but getting better... anyways this gallery system is amazing kind like the mac navagation, the only thing is i have tried to emplement this in a website for a customer at 1024x768 res and 2 Q
1.is it possible to restrict the _xmouse.onRollOver event to only the sliderbox/bg, you said at the top of the page with small adjustments this can be acheived???

2.when the 1st thumb is rolled over (far left one) and the curser goes further to the left the scroll panel follows it, but im sure if i find a solution to the first question this question will be solved.

any help with this would be greatly appreciated,

thanks in anticapation. jared

John you are a diamond in the rough, this is excellent work and the code is sweet.

This is great! Thanks.
Pascal, if you specify the same image for the thumb and the pic it will automatically reduce the pic to a thumbnail image.
I'm hoping there is a way to change this to just specify the images filename and caption.
Thanks again John!

Great script. If you enhance this, I would suggest a fourth XML var for additional text to load next to the enlargement, and they both fade in together. Then you really have a thumb/caption to enlargement/details album. I tried to do this m'self and mucked everything up. Any quick code and/or process suggestions? Other, than "quit screwin' up?" ;-)

How could you do the reflection on photo list?

Beautiful work man! thanx alot! keep up the excellent work.

Thank you so much........Awesome...super stylish

Hi. Did jared or any one figure how to constrict the xmouse to just bg? I want to keep the images inside the slidecontainer and not allow them to be dragged left outside the bg. Thanks.

Hi guys,
This is great! But heres the problem. When i have finished creating this and i test the *.swf file, it works beautifully. But as soon as i test it on the internet, it only displays a white square with the preloader in the center of the white box.

Any idea's how to solve this?
Cheers guys
- Ryan

The .swf should be in the same directory as the xml file and images.

hello, is it possible to have more sliders in one project, each with different .xmls and image folders??similar question has been put here already but I

this works fine as a .swf and built into a html page but as soon as i upload that html page onto a remote server I just get a Whit screen and preloader. the swf fla html and xml are all in the same folder but no joy how do i solve this problem

After a little work I got this working beautifully as just a simple swf. However, as soon as I load it into a table in an html file, it just hangs at the preloader. I've got all my files for this in the same folder, does anyone have any suggestions for how to solve this?

So after some more messing around, I seem to have solved the problem I had with this just hanging at the preloader:
It seems that your html file with the embedded swf file also has to be in the same directory as your xml and swf files. As soon as I resaved my html file to that directory, it worked like a charm!
Hope that saves some frustration for a few of you

Just a quick little tidbit about this: you can load a few different types of files in the xml (not just jpg of gif), including swf which is helpful if you want to have dynamic content loaded from the slide menu

to the author,
can u pls make it more clearly?? for us newbie??
tnx

Hi everyone,
well i seem to have this functioning really nicely but want different buttons on my page to link to 5 different galleries.
each gallery with it's own pictures and sliderfeed ie. folder1/sliderfeed1.xml

i changed the slidecontainer to have multiple frames each frame pointing to a differnet xml file. and the buttons pointing to those differnt frames. they each work individually however once one xml file is loaded then no others will be.

i think i somehow need to unload the current xml.. please can anyone help?????
and have tried a few work arounds like removing movieclip to no avail.

thanks in advance
GG

thanks lot.this tutorial fully usefull.keep helping for rokies like us..
chears....

Hi, I have insert the swf file with button .but seem like the swf load like a still image and the button inside the swf cannot click. did anyone know how to put a swf file inside the albumslides and can use the button function? Thx

I loaded SWF's instead of JPG's for the sole purpose of having buttons on the images and it worked fine. I'd recommend making your button in a separate flash file, preview it in flash to make sure it works, then publish it and load the published file into the flash document you're building to load instead of the images. Preview that to make sure it works, then publish it and modify the XML document to load an SWF file instead of a JPG

hi, this is great but I have problems with the slider.. First one is, When I run the movie in fullscreen the bg part follows the mouse cursor to the right end of the stage but to the end of the screen. Which line of the codes make this work well ? thx

For those who have problem with slider width you can use this simple solution. Masking the slidercontainer. So the image won't display outside of the box.

Hi, is it just me or anybody having trouble to download the build SWF file? help please? Thank you kindly

hi! how does this work? any help please... i can't either edit this.. please need help .. thaks!

Alright!! i made it! paste this // <images>
<image><thumb>thumbofpic1.jpg</thumb><caption>Pic 1 caption</caption><pic>pic1.png</pic></image>
<image><thumb>thumbofpic2.png</thumb><caption>pic 2 description</caption><pic>pic2.jpg</pic></image>
</images> // to dreamweaver or notepad and edit the filename of the picture you want to use and save as a filename sliderfeed.xml. But first save all the picture you want to be part of you slide in the index folder. Download the sourcefile in the top of this discussion and save it to the index folder. Also the sliderfeed.xml must be save on the index folder.. just try and explore it and edit anything you want.. a BIG thanks to this tutorial!

Hi, no it's not just you Yazeus, i can't either download the build SWF file, don't know what's the deal.

i really love the slide but could anyone tell me whats the problem?
i had downloaded the .fla file and edited the xml file. but then when i try to test the .fla file an error occurred telling that theres an error with the picture's url. i check the url of the picture i included in my xml file and its definitely right. what do you think is the problem?

Thank You verry much vor all this

you are fantastic :)

ciao ciao
pino

Thank u soooo much!!!!
Never ever understand any flash dynamic be4or yours! Well done well commented! Greets from Switzerland

Hi i'm working on it...
But i cant figure out how to resize "imageholder" without changing the size of the slider zone??
"bg" is using in the both...
Thanks u.

I ve found it! (check out the previous post)
It may help somebody. Place this code on the top of the first frame of imageholder (it also work with the slider)
this.canvas._height=//height you want ur full size image;
this.canvas._width=//width you want ur full size image;
this.canvas._x=0;//where is it...
this.canvas._y=0;

it works!!!great...thanks alot.

simple, looks great, works like a charm, easily customizable. you should publish that stuff on flashden !

This works great fro me locally but when I post it up on my server it stops working. Is it a server issue? Any ideas?

Hi...
Please Please Please Please anyone tell me how to make its xml file. how the pictures will be linked with it.

please tell me how to make xml file please i like it alot. ama0290@gmail.com

Please help me can some one make xml file for me and send on my email? my email is ama0290@gmail.com

hi,to make an xml file just open ur notepad or any editor and paste the code given above.Save the file as filename.xml

Hello one quick question has anybody figure out how to get a description beside the large image ? oh and how to set the large image with a hyperlink ? I'm still new to actionscript any help would be great thanks all
sonic26@live.com
cheers

Grams79

Thank you very much. What a time saving little share.

Looks like some of you are having some rookie troubles.
I'll try to help.

GET XML
Create a new Empty File or Text File, rename it "sliderfeed.xml".
The format will be changed, no need for a special editor.
Open/edit with Text Editor or Word Pad.
Paste the following example and modify.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<images>
<image><thumb>thumbnail_1.png</thumb><caption>pic 1 description</caption><pic>image_1.png</pic></image>
<image><thumb>thumbnail_2.png</thumb><caption>pic 2 description</caption><pic>image_2.png</pic></image>
<image><thumb>thumbnail_3.png</thumb><caption>pic 3 description</caption><pic>image_3.png</pic></image>
</images>

The images would be in the same folder in this example.
JPG and other formats are also welcome to be used.
I've used PNG since it is close to raw, but very large in size.

GET SWF
Download source and publish or download SWF "39-albumslide.swf".
Place it in the folder along with everything else.

GET HTML
Create a new Empty File or Text File, rename it "myslider.html".
The format will be changed, no need for a special editor.
Open/edit with Text Editor or Word Pad.
Paste the following example and modify.

<html>
<head>
<title>My Flash Slider</title>
</head>
<body>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="500" height="400" id="39-albumslide" align="middle">

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />

<param name="movie" value="39-albumslide.swf?xmlfile=sliderfeed.xml" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed src="39-albumslide.swf?xmlfile=sliderfeed.xml" quality="high" wmode="transparent" width="500" height="400" name="39-albumslide" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

</object>
</body>
</html>

That should get you started.
Modify and change what you like... everything included on this page is fully customizable.

Note:
In case your a Windows user and can't rename to change the formate of the file. Get Linux! lol
Joking... Folder Options / View Tab / Advanced settings / "Hide extensions for known file types."

Your welcome public, Grams79

Simple tutorial posted above: Copy, paste and clean up to read.

hello,
It works well when html web page is in the same directory than xml,swf and jpg

It looks amazing!!!
I have the same question as Art:
What are the licensing for this source? Can this be edited and used in a commercial project? Please answer by email: hews20@yandex.ru
Thanks a lot!!!!

This album slider is ver great but i cant seem to find the source code. Can somebody help me please?

John Bezanis, this one is great... it is amazing. I still try to figure out how to mask the slider so it doesn't moving when the mouse it over the fullsized image, if you can show us here I will be very very grateful.

osum..keep it up..

This tutorial is very good!!!
I go save it in my folder "Bests Tutoriais"

Esse tutorial

Thanks for the source and tutorial.

I am trying to add on a field in the XML called picid and place a dynamic text box on the stage to tell what id is being loaded.

Any idea?

Thanks!
Kim

Hi all, was just wondering if anyone tried to add an swf file to the xml and publish the movie.

It loads the swf but it seems to enlarge its size a lot to the point that it's unvieable
Any ideas why?

thanks,
Kate

Thanks John, good and kind work!

Guys, I was getting only the preloader icon. the problem was my xml file. make sure it is in fact an xml file and that the file names have their proper extensions.

Thanks again

thanks for this! I will probably start using it on our site for all of our galleries :), Lost Souls

where is the file called sliderfeed.xml

How can i format the caption in the xml file?
I tried a stylesheet, but nothing happens.
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="style.css"?>

Any tips?

Thanks

Q:
How can i format the caption in the xml file?
A:
It is just reading the text from the xml. To format you have to edit the flash source. Specifically the captionbox instance with the properties (dynamic text).

Stevens
Technical Consultant
http://mytechproductions.com

hei i need to do this:
- when i press the pic
- goto the next frame or next scene
- but how?? help me!!!!
ik0770476@mail.unitar.edu.my

Can the same be done with movie files? So instead of bringing up an image when you click on the thumbnail it opens say a youtube video?

nice

I just wanted to make the speed of the picture loading a little bit speedy but after changing, i messed up all with the code, please help.

Hi! Thx very much for this!
i have a two questions, how can i turn off a reflection and light glow on active photo?
Please reply on my email.

Cool tutorial ~!

I got 1 question.. How do I actually add description to the image?
I have already added in additional field in xml & read the node value in the for loop..
But the descrip is not coordinating with the image..
it is stopping at the last description of my xml list..

Please Help.. Thanks a Million ~!

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Thanks for sharing!

i like

Great image slider... thanks for sharing!

I've problem about sliderfeed.xml where was it place?

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I have some problem with xml file above.

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This slider is a lot better than the image slider you had before, mainly because the slide is slower and allows for lesser mistakes in choosing the right images.

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