Help with a Photographer's Site

programming flash
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Hey. I’m trying to make a website for a friend. He is a photographer, and he wants a website just like this.
http://tonydrayton.com/
Upon going there, he wants you to be able to click on the “Gallery” link, just like the Tony Drayton website link provided above, and he wants the gallery to pop up in the same way.

However, I know there must be some sort of actiosncript and external image directory. I’m guessing the actionscript has something to do with loading the images, flashing them in the preview window as they load, and also actionscript to scroll between the images.

I’m guessing there is an images directory or something, and there must be sub-folders, same as the three categories on the gallery. Whenever he uploads a picture to a certain sub-category, they must be read by the actionscript and automatically be viewable on the website.

If you can help with this, I will have work down the line, which will be paying. However, this is for a friend so I would appreciate anything. Also, if you were willing to setup the .fla file and the actionscript, so all I would have to do is to make an images directory, I’d be willing to pay you after the project was completed and sent to me. However, it is likely there will be no paying project fee for this gallery. However, I will look to you for future flash projects, with a hourly rate or a project-fee.
Thanks for any help.

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there are quite a few questions and answers like this in the thread that dru suggested, try looking through all of that (probably should start from the end) and you might find what you want

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I tried doing the chromeless pop-up tutorials and such mentioned above, but it didn’t work, and I was assuming because there was more animation and wasn’t sure how to apply it to a intro, in a way.

The website is www.ThomasLech.com, if you want to see what I have so far. For now, it’s just the splash page. He wanted the text up top animated, following the idea of [url=“http://www.Frank-Wartenberg.com”]www.Frank-Wartenberg.com, so I did that for him. He had someone setup the page and gallery in a way so all I had to do was to animate it, have the scrollable pictures, as well as have the pictures XML-loaded.

I’ll be using the tutorials, and I’ll keep updating my post when I upload new portions and when I need help.

I was wondering though, in the actions for the button, after the on {release} part, with the getURL part, aren’t there more values you can insert to make sure theres no toolbars, unscrollable, etc.? Right now, inside the parantences looks likes this…

(“gallery”,"_blank")
/gallery because I will make a new directory called gallery, and that will be the index page with the scrollable pictures and you’re able to click on them, as well as all the images in /gallery/images.

Aren’t there some values you can put after the “_blank” like “0”,“0”,“0”, or something to take away the scrollbar, toolbar, etc.?

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the left and right of red arrow key is do not need those site.
because,scrolling thumbgallery is already launched,so user select an image from those thumbgallery…one more thing,Ive seen several photographers site and those looks were always same as Black or white Backgroud and launched photo with scrolling thumbgallery.thats too boring.

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Well, my friend wants this site to be of a professional nature, and he requested I make it similar to tonydrayton.com. I would involve more of my creativity in here if he had given me more freedom or if I was doing this for a client. However, thanks for your comments and feel free to keep helping me in anyway you can.

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hey dru, the links you provided were somewhat helpful, but didn’t quite nail down what I had in mind. Here is how I mapped it out. I need to setup a way for the gallery to load images and thumbnails using XML, then have the pictures show up in the viewer section at the top after they’re clicked. Then, I need to figure out how to make it navigatable. I will look more into the infinite menu tutorial, and see if that can help me. thanks.

edit
i think the infinite menu is not quite what im looking for. That is intriguing, but I also need to somehow externally load the images. I’m not sure how to externally load variables/images, except externally loading .txt files. Are the two in any way related?

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You can use the infinite menu, just make it finite and you have what you want:)
You can load images with

pictureHolder_mc.loadMovie("your_picture.jpg");

where pictureHolder_mc is the instancename of an (empty) movieclip.

I think in the tonydrayton site, all images are preloaded and the thumbs are scaled “copies” of the original, so you don’t have seperate thumbs.
What you can do is load the images in the thumbnail, as soon as it is loaded, scale it and duplicate it (unscaled).

scotty(-:

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I don’t understand. What is the empty movieclip for?
And would an example of the actionscript be something like…

pictureHolder_mc.loadMovie(“photo1.jpg”);
pictureHolder_mc.loadMovie(“photo2.jpg”);

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How would I go about using XML and flash to externally load the images?

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Did you check the link dru_nasty gave you? I believe the V3 version used xml.

scotty(-:

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ok. im assuming you meant the one about the simple viewer or something.
i saw the script you included, and im going to try it out
i guess once i figure out how to load the pictures using XML, it’ll be easy for me to just apply the infinite menu tutorial or something