Hi guys!
I’ve made a website in Flash and I have a problem when it comes to show an image gallery on the site.
I want to use an image viewer that pops up when you click on a thumbnail and shows a larger image.
I have used Lightbox before when my site had been made only in html.
But now when my site is made in Flash I’ve tried to integrate Lightbox in Flash but
I can’t get LightBox to work with Flash AS3.
I’ve followed this guide:
The problem with this guide is that the solution is not giving me the final result I want.
There are 2 problems:
1/ The next and prev buttons are not working (they are not visible) and therefore I can only show a single image. So I can’t use Lightbox as an image gallery with multiple images because I don’t have the next/prev buttons.
The close button is visible but it doesn’t work (can’t close the window).
2/ When the Lightbox window opens/expands I want the background to be shown under/through Lightbox but instead a solid dark gray/black color replaces the background.
You can see the problem if you go to www.appcreator.se and click on the Screens tab.
Then you click on the icons (there are only 2 icons yet) and Lightbox will be opened.
But without next/prev buttons…
As I said before I use AS3 and this guide is the only one I’ve found about integrating Lightbox in Flash.
If I don’t use Flash it’s very easy. I just use this procedure and put it in the html-code:
<a href=“images/image-1.jpg” rel=“lightbox[roadtrip]”>image #1</a>
<a href=“images/image-2.jpg” rel=“lightbox[roadtrip]”>image #2</a>
<a href=“images/image-3.jpg” rel=“lightbox[roadtrip]”>image #3</a>
But because I use Flash I don’t get these <a href> tags in my code.
So I don’t have a clue how to solve this problem.
Maybe it’s mission impossible?
Off course I dont’t have to use Lightbox for this. The important is that the images will open in a box, just like it does in Lightbox. So maybe there are some better alternative image viewers that you can integrate in Flash?
I know that you can make an image gallery from scratch in Flash, but I haven’t find any tutorials how to make the images pop up in another window(box) when I click on the thumbnail. Does anyone know how to do that? I suppose that is pretty complicated?
Maybe I can solve this in a different/better way?
I would be very grateful for some help/advice:).
/canaan77
