Loading of variables in frame 1st of the main movie timeline.
url = “xxxxx”;
loadVariablesNum((url + “_main.php”), 0);
Main timeline has a movieclip with instance name “big_preview” that contains following movieclip “load_big_pic” along with an actions layer that has code for alignments of images on the stage
This clip (load_big_pic) in turn holds
- preview_frame( movieclip)
- big_frame (movieclip)
- prew_but (button) and
- Close Button for closing the image .
So its the “big_frame” movieclip that loads the large preview of the image
The prew_button has action to play a mask clicking on which closes the big image preview anywhere over the stage area .
“big_frame” holds the “big_frame_loder” and “big_frame_cont” movieclip .
The “big_frame_cont” holds “big_frame_cont_pre”.
Following is the action for “big_frame” movieclip :
onClipEvent(load){
if(_parent._parent.biggest_pic_to_load){
loadMovie(_parent._parent.biggest_pic_to_load, this.big_frame_cont.big_frame_cont_pre);
}
}
That was about the loading of the Large size Big Image on the stage once the respective thumbnail is clicked .
The start of galleries loads action by a frame with following code :
if(!_root.comment_position){
loadVariablesNum(((_root.url + "_gallery.") + _root.file_option), 0);
_parent.gallery.stop();
intervalID = setInterval(check_loaded, 100);
The variables are loaded from the _gallery.php file as above . The gallery.php file has images in follwing manner :
&cat_0=LANDSCAPES& ( this is the category)
&cat_0_pic_0=Picture name.jpg& ( the name can be anyting but , a .jpg extension image )
&cat_0_pic_1=Picture name.jpg&
Other category will be &cat_1= Something& and SO on and so forth …
As far as my homework goes , I have searched to the other action codes in the movie , specially on the galleries page .It gives me the hint of variables that have been parsed by flash from the php files . THey are :
On the frame 1 of the gallery page :
if(!img_start){
img_start = 0;
}
var pic_names = new Array();
var category;
if(!_root.gallery_category){
category = 0;
} else if(_root.gallery_category){
category = _root.gallery_category;
}
and on Frame 2 of gallery page :
var coll_position = 0;
var row_position = 0;
i = img_start;
while(i < (img_start + colls * rows)){
if(_root[((("cat_" + category) + "_pic_") + i)]){
this[("image" + i)].removeMovieClip();
duplicateMovieClip(preview.clip, [("image" + i)], i);
The Category button has follwing action:
if(_root.template_help_preview != "true"){
preview[("image" + i)].small_pic_to_load = (_root[("cat_" + category)] + "/small/") + _root[((("cat_" + category) + "_pic_") + i)]; //( this is for the thumbnail of the pictures to be loaded )
preview[("image" + i)].big_pic_to_load = (_root[("cat_" + category)] + "/big/") + _root[((("cat_" + category) + "_pic_") + i)]; //( This is for the big sized image ...without zoom )
}
Above actions I have pasted to give u an idea what the present values inside my movies are .
Now what i want is :
The Big Preview movie loads the zoomed version of the image on the stage once we click the zoom button in the gallery.
I want to create 2 buttons , one on the left and other on Right of the ZOOMED image i.e in on the " big_preview" movie that changes the zoomed preview to NEXT image without having to click the small thumbnails again . And the Click of previous
button takes the image One back .
ALso , Can a slide show of big images be created ???
This is already a feature in Newer Template designs , that uses XML for lading gallery , but Mine is a older “php” version .
What I can make out is I have to define few variables like :
Current image , Current category , total images in a folder , next imat that will be previous image +1 and vice versa …
Has to be something LIKE this maybe ,
on (release)
{
if (template_help_preview != "true")
{
myArray = _root.big_preview.biggest_pic_to_load.split("/");
pathArray = _root.big_preview.biggest_pic_to_load.split(myArray[2]);
currentImageNumber = _root.getNumberByname(myArray[2], _root.gallery_category);
currentImagePath = pathArray[0];
imageCount = _root.getCountCategoryImages(_root.gallery_category) - 1;
}
else
{
categoryName = _root.getCurrentGalleryName(_root.gallery_category);
preImagePath = _root.big_preview.biggest_pic_to_load.split(categoryName);
myArray = preImagePath[1].split("_");
currentImageNumber = _root.getNumberByname(myArray[2], _root.gallery_category);
tempCatName = categoryName.split(" ");
newCategoryName = tempCatName.join("_");
currentImagePath = _root.url + "_" + newCategoryName + "_big_";
} // end else if
imagesCount = _root.getCountCategoryImages(_root.gallery_category) - 1;
if (currentImageNumber != imagesCount)
{
newImageToLoad = currentImageNumber + 1;
categoryPrev = _root.getGalleryImage(newImageToLoad, _root.gallery_category);
_root.big_preview.biggest_pic_to_load = currentImagePath + categoryPrev.name;
_root.big_preview.stopMovie = "false";
_root.big_preview.play();
} // end if
}
OF COURSE THE ABOVE CODE IS FOR THE XML VERSION OF THE SIMILAR TEMPLATE . My template doesnt have functions marked in red as above .
Iam badly stuck on this problem …
Any help will be Highly appreciated …
Moderators , Please pardon the lengthy post , but I had to elaborate …
