Hello all, new user here. Ive recently been using Flash for a company project. I’ve been learning a lot about Flash while reading through these forums. I have something specific in mind, but can’t seem to find anything about it anywhere. If I knew what to do, I wouldn’t mind putting it together myself, but I also wouldnt mind buying this as a component or whatever. This project that I am working on has already been built in Flash CS3 using AS 3.0 so Id like to keep using that for this gallery that I am trying to do. Its sounds very similar to this thread (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57082) but it wasnt quite working for me.
This project, when complete, we run as a SWF Projector file on several computers. Opening it up produces a menu with several options. Of those options, one will take you to an image gallery. The gallery needs to be loaded dynamically from a folder that is located in the source directory. When someone has this on their computer, they need to be able to simply add a picture (of a certain size) to a image folder (or subfolder). WHen in the IMage Gallery Screen, I would need the thumbnail version of this folder to load onto a screen. When you click on the thumbnail, it produces a larger image somewhere on that screen.
Now, here’s the tricky part. Instead of creating images in both large size and thumbnail sizes, is it possible that I can insert one image into the folder, and flash (through XML or PHP) will create a reduced sized image to display as a thumbnail, or vice versa… add a small image into the folder and this will load in flash. Clicking on it will force flash to expand the size of the that image.
Also, since this is dynamic, I would need the gallery to recognize that a new image has been added into the images folder. And if an image gets deleted, it will remove it from the gallery. However, I would need to try to accomplish this without the user needing to adjust the xml code or having to adjust the fla. At most, all they would need to do is insert a picture of a given size into a folder, and possibly name it to something specific.
I’ve seen this done before, but not sure if it was AS3, AS2 or an add-on component. As I said before, I wouldnt care if I had to buy a compontent if it does everything I needed. Anyone know of any?
Heres a summary of what Im looking for
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[]Dynamically loaded gallery in flash using AS3 (and xml/php if necessary)
[]pictures pulled from an image folder
[]Thumbnails auto-generated without having a user create a thumbnail-sized image for each image they add to the image folder
[]Needs to be self-sustaining… user can not adjust XML code or adjust fla file everytime they add a new image to the image folder[/LIST]Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
