Image Gallery Problem

[eberth_mq]

hi
i need to do a image gallery for a project, with tumbnails that on clic get resized, there are like 40 images, so how can i do it in an interactive way???? any ideas or examples???

[cancerinform]

Any imported image you can resize. For example you can put 40 MCs on your stage, load them with an image and make it small using _xscale.
for (i=1;i<=40;i++) {
loadMovie("pic_"+i,"holder_"+i);
_root["pic_"+i]._xscale = 5;
_root["pic_"+i]._yscale = 5;
}
Then you add a script to the MCs, which says something like:
onClipEvent(press){
this._url._xscale = 100;
this._url._yscale = 100;
}

(I am not sure about the correct syntax for the onClipEvent)
Anyway this could be something to try out for a start. Of course therea re many other problems still left.

[MeekGeek]

you can divide things into two sections:
1) a movie with the full size pictures along a timeline,
each picture should have a labeled frame like Picture1
2) a movie full of thumbnail buttons

triggering a button would call code like this:
on(release){
_root.BigPicturesMovie.gotoAndStop("Picture1");
}

If your pictures are larger files, it would be wise to load the pictures as they are called using the loadMovie() method:
on(release){
loadMovie( "pic1.jpg", _root.BigPicturesMovie );
}

This is all just one of many solutions and my personal preference.

[eberth_mq]

this is something similar to what i want to do
http://www.expresateweb.com/merca/em.swf

[eberth_mq]

here !!!!

i could download the fla from this guy
but he told me that he wont explain me anything
that i should understand it by myself
but I CANT !!!!!

the fla is here
http://www.iespana.es/eberthdesigns/em.fla

[eberth_mq]

ok, ok, well, i got an idea

i dont need such a difficult thing
all i need is a tumbnail section and a big image section so, can u tell me how to do it, i heared that with loadmovie, but i dont understand very good this topic, so if anyone can help me, i'll be gratefull

[eberth_mq]

i started working, look , the problem i get is that i want to load the images on the little squares but it loads in a bigger size and in the middle of the screen, please help me, ahh and the fla is in http://www.iespana.es/eberthdesigns/helpme.fla

[wade_br]

This might help you. It is simuliar.


http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...4189/index.php

[Expunge]

Not very Flash experinced but this is what I did to show my wallpapers. In a flash movie on one layer on one frame put your thumbnail images and make them into buttons.
Each wallpaper was 640x480 so in dreamweaver I put each wall on it's own page.Make the thumbnail buttons Get URL and give the name of the first wall eg. wallpaper.htm
So you make thumbnail page index.html
i probally havent explained this very well but it works fine. When I did it all in Flash it took over 4 minutes to download.

[MeekGeek]

here is an example of what I explained to do earlier:
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/flas...llGallery.html
(change the .html to .fla to download my flash file)
I used photoshop to make smaller thumbnail versions of the picture and loadMovie() to bring in the bigger pictures. This works well for preventing lag on the end user since the swf is only 20.8k big, and over 90% of that is from the thumbnails.

I did this for practice for a web site I'm doing in a week that requires a gallery similar to your project, eberth.

I hope this helps some.

[eberth_mq]

great!!!, that is what i was looking for!!!

another question, if i have 40 images, how do i add a scroll for them???? and how do i resize the images in photoshop (sorry i'm stupid )

[eberth_mq]

ok, forget the other question, i soved that with a scroll pane, and i learned to resize, now my problem is that the image doesnt loads where i want, look
http://www.iespana.es/eberthdesigns/helpme2.fla
i think i'm doing it good or am i crazy???
thanks

[Expunge]

instead of scrolling put 10 thumbnails on one frame,another 10 on another frame etc. Put a button on the first frame. Action is something like Go to next frame,don't forget to put a back button as well.
In Photoshop load the full size image, click on image on the top menu bar, then resize, enter the size that you want.

[eberth_mq]

yes, i solved that, but i need to have it in a scroll and it works but the problem is that the image doesnt loads in the correct place

[MeekGeek]

eberth, your fla files are loading in a little funny for me. Are you using MX? I'm only getting a couple basic symbols.

as for loading in images,
Make an invisible movie and make sure to give it an instance name and assign the target of your loadMovie() to that instance. Otherwise loadMovie will default to _root and replace everything with the topleft corner of the picture in the center of the screen.

[eberth_mq]

yes, im using mx
i'm using one of the components in mx
the scroll pane, it scrolls a movieclip.

and, yes, i made an empty mc and i try to load the image into that movie, and it doesnt works, look it is like that

loadmovie ("image.jpg",empty_mc);

but it loads wrong

[eberth_mq]

hey!
i know what the problem is!!!
when i load the movie normally it loads perfectly
but when i put all the buttons into a mc. and then i call the mc in the scroll pane, the movie loads the movies into the scroll pane , so what should i do?? should i use _global or _root ??? or what??? and if i have to use that, how?? hehehe it is something like _root.loadmovie("blah.jpg,blah.blah"); ????

[eberth_mq]

or any other way of displaying 40 tumbnails ???

[Expunge]

have a look at this http://www.btinternet.com/~david1.dawney/index.htm
as see if you get any ideas.

[eberth_mq]

thank you , i did it the way you told me the first time, putting 10 tumbnails and in other frame other 10, thanks for your help , now my project is completed
i learned a lot today