Populating the movie with thumbnails?

[tkingstl]

This is way beyond my skill level, but there is only one way to get there right?

Here's what I am trying to do:
I want to populate a scrolling content box with thumbnails from a directory on my website. That's step 1.

Step 2, if I can ever figure out how to get here, is when a user would click a thumbnail in content box 1, the full size image would load in the larger content box 2, with a transition. This would also not be hard coded and would pull a corresponding named image from a directory on my website.

Coding wise, I can do it in other languages but flash is very new to me, thus why I started here with koolmoves. I know the logic involved but I just can't seem to get it all together with Koolmoves.

Can anyone help me out? I have read a few of the tutorials available and tried to tear them apart, it's just not what I am trying to do.

[Putz]

tkingstl,

Necromanthus and koolexchange both have nice slideshows that have scrolling thumb nails. It has the source and all so you can learn a bit too !

[blanius]

I put a photo gallery on the koolexchange that does exactly this with content panes.

koolexchange.com

Both of these are there
http://bretlanius.com/flash/gallery.html
http://bretlanius.com/flash/asgallery/gallery.html

[tkingstl]

I'm just a moron, thanks guys, I will have another look.

[Stoke Laurie]

tkingstl I have made your request today's free download you can get it here www.thewebshopfactory.co.uk/blog

[tkingstl]

I have two questions abut the Gallery written by Blanius. I have unpacked the files and uploaded to my testing server. it didn't come with any images, so I am kind of confused there.

1. How do I populate it with the images? I looked at the action script for both content boxes and didn't see much there other than it's supposed to populate with an image names p1.jpg on initial load. I created the "photos" directory and dumped some random images in there as well with no luck.

2. How do I change the content pane on the right to allow for rows of 3 thumbnails?

Thanks for all your help and patience everyone.

[blanius]

I think that particular one looks for images named 1.jpg 2.jpg etc. you have to modify the code to the number of images you want to load and name them that when you upload them.

I had forgotten that one didn't come with a back end script to get a directory.

As soon as I get at my main system I know I have something that does a directory search using PHP.... All else I can share the one at http://jjhotsauce.com

[tkingstl]

I am just going to post my file in a new thread, hopefully I can get some help, this is just driving me nutty!