Photo gallery

[kidb]

Hi All

would someone be able to help with this script I have. its for a photo gallery that I downlowded, the images fades in and out, but only start that when you click a button(timer)

I'm trying to founf out where in the script I can change this, so that the photo's start automatically, rather than, on a button click.

I have pasted the script below, is that ok, or would people rather a zip file of the files?

I have also attached demo files

many thanks for any help!




// (c) Copyright by Andrew DiFiore. All rights reserved. DO NOT REMOVE.
fscommand("allowscale", "false");
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

targetPhoto._visible = false;

slides_xml = new XML();
slides_xml.onLoad = loadSlideShow;
slides_xml.load("album.xml");
slides_xml.ignoreWhite = true;

function loadSlideShow(success) {
if (success == true) {
rootNode = slides_xml.firstChild;
totalSlides = rootNode.childNodes.length;
currentSlideNode = rootNode.firstChild;
photos = new Array(totalSlides);
thumbs = new Array(totalSlides);
captions = new Array(totalSlides);
tx = 0;
for (i=0; i < totalSlides; i++) { // populate arrays and create thumbnails dynamically
photos[i] = currentSlideNode.attributes.jpegURL;
thumbs[i] = [currentSlideNode.attributes.jpegWidth,currentSlide Node.attributes.jpegHeight];
captions[i] = currentSlideNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.attachMovie("thumb","thumb"+i,i);
_root["thumb"+i]._x = tx;
_root["thumb"+i]._y = 595; // using fixed Y coord
_root["thumb"+i].tindex = i;
tx += 22;
currentSlideNode = currentSlideNode.nextSibling;
}
// initialize values
currentIndex = 0;
targetWidth=thumbs[currentIndex][0]; // get width
targetHeight=thumbs[currentIndex][1]; // get height;
updateSlide();
}
}

function updateSlide() { // load photo, update caption and status fields
targetPhoto.loadPhoto(photos[currentIndex]);
caption = captions[currentIndex];
statusField = (currentIndex+1) + "/" + totalSlides;
}

function slideShow() {
if (currentIndex == totalSlides-1) { currentIndex = 0; } else { currentIndex++; }
targetPhoto._visible = false;
targetWidth=thumbs[currentIndex][0]; // get width
targetHeight=thumbs[currentIndex][1]; // get height;
updateSlide();
}

MovieClip.prototype.loadPhoto = function(fn) { // load external jpeg method + preloader
this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 1);
this.holder.loadMovie(fn);
this.onEnterFrame = function() { // NOTE: could use this to display percentage to user
if (Math.floor((this.holder.getBytesLoaded()/this.holder.getBytesTotal())*100) >= 100) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

[Nig 13]

Unlock the timer layer, and click ONCE on the slideshow autoplay button, and then press F9 to open Actions Panel - in there, type this:

onClipEvent(load){
    gotoAndPlay("loop");
}

then, enter the autoplay movieclip, and click on the frame with the label loop, open Actions panel by pressing F9, and copy and paste this in there:

play();

Hope it helps, and you need to upgrade to AS2 or AS3

[kidb]

Hey Nig13

many thanks for that, that works great!

[kidb]

Hey Nig 13

one more little thought with it, at the moment the 'Photo placeholder' is the thing that animates, zooms in & out, is there an easy way to get it to be the photos that zoom in and out rather than the grey box(Photo Placeholder)

thanks for your help!

[Nig 13]

That'd be very difficult, so I advice you to keep the current one