need help from flash expert!

[thongirl]

so here's the deal... i am working on a collaborative project with 7 other people. we were split into 2 groups-- programmers and designers. for some reason i was put into the programmers group. i barely know anything about flash.

we are working on a website which displays various artwork from our department. click here to see image. basically, what happens here is that when you click on next, the "gallery" scrolls right to the next 6 thumbnails. what we want to do is to have the thumbnails in the gallery dynamically loaded.

i was wondering if anyone is willing to help out by donating some time so i can try to figure this out. if anyone can, that would be awesome.

thongirl27@yahoo.com

[EQFlash]

let's get to work. for starters, to load images dynamically, you need a container to hold them, normally a movieclip placed on the stage.
you would give the movieclip an instance name and then load the image to the movieclip, i.e.
movieclip.loadMovie("yourImage.jpg").
How many sets of 6 do you need?

[thongirl]

there are 144 images total so there will be 24 sets of 6. instead of using the actual work. we will be uses dummy images for both the thumbnails and the images.

[EQFlash]

ok, tall order, but can be done. first the thumbs should be small, say about 100 x 100 each. so they will easy to handle. Let me see what I can put together for you. unless you get a better solution from 1 of the other flashers here.

[thongirl]

well, actually... the thumbs are depicted in the link i placed above. i believe those are 166x128. the idea is that when you click on one of those, it opens up the larger image which will be 550x410.

[EQFlash]

no problem, I just like to use square thumbs a 100 because it cuts down on math work, but 166 x 128 is good. I'm almost done. Im using flash designed images instead of real images. Just for demonstration purposes only.

[swak]

I found this by going to the actual flash folder and from there: /Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/Galleries/

//****************************************************************************
//Copyright (C) 2005 Macromedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
//The following is Sample Code and is subject to all restrictions on
//such code as contained in the End User License Agreement accompanying
//this product.
//****************************************************************************

/* 
Tree component image gallery example
This example shows you how to use the Tree, ProgressBar and Loader 
components to build a simple gallery.
*/

var my_pb:mx.controls.ProgressBar;
var my_ldr:mx.controls.Loader;
var my_tree:mx.controls.Tree;

my_pb._visible = false;
my_pb.indeterminate = true;
my_pb.setSize(160, 30);
my_pb.source = my_ldr;
my_pb.mode = "polled";
var pbListener:Object = new Object();
pbListener.complete = function(evt:Object) {
	evt.target._visible = false;
};
my_pb.addEventListener("complete", pbListener);

var treeDP_xml:XML = new XML();
treeDP_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
treeDP_xml.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
	if (success) {
		my_tree.dataProvider = this.firstChild;
	}
};

treeDP_xml.load("gallery_tree.xml");
var treeListener:Object = new Object();
treeListener.change = function(evt:Object) {
	var treeNode:XMLNode = evt.target.selectedItem;
	if (treeNode.attributes.src != undefined) {
		my_pb._visible = true;
		my_ldr.load(treeNode.attributes.src);
	}
};
my_tree.addEventListener("change", treeListener);

[thongirl]

Ok, I also sent you a few emails containing some of the .swfs we have so far so you can have a better understanding of what we're doing.

[swak]

if you look down at the bottom, you'll find this bit of code: treeDP_xml.load("gallery_tree.xml");
the "gallery_tree.xml" is the name of the external file that gets loaded. It's the file that you change in order to change the list of picture that will be loaded. I'm emailing you the whole thing.

[thongirl]

I'm still having issues with this... Might anyone else be able to assist me?