[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]I’m brand new to flash & actioscript and all else in between, so if any of the following appears naive it’s because, well, I am naive :}[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]First let me say that I’m immensely (immensely) grateful to kirupa.com and all the great tutorials, information, and codes you all have so generously posted out there. I’d not have learned half of what I have so far without all this support![/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Okay, so here’s what I’m trying to accomplish:[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]I’d like to create a slideshow that loops on “play” but that also has pause/prev/next buttons to give users more control of how fast the images appear. I’d really really like to incorporate scrolling thumbs here – a sort of fancy progress bar if you like, that would allow users to get to the middle of the show faster and start there (I’m dealing with quite a number of images, too, I should add).[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]What I’ve done so far:[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]I’ve taken the tutorials that seemed relevant:[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Slideshow[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow.htm[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#800080]http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_flash_photogallery.htm[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Photogallery with thumbs[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#800080]http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails.htm[/COLOR]
I even paid close attention to the explanations of code etc. – may not have understood every word, but I did pick up a few things.
And it occurred to me that I could just combine the codes for the slideshow and the one with the scrolling thumbs. SO I did, and it worked – but only partially. The prev/next buttons do work, but they interfere with the interval & cause some interesting-but-not-necessarily-so-great effects.
Questions:
IF this is a good approach,
- How do I add play/pause buttons to this?
- how do I get the thumbnail code to “talk” more effectively to the slideshow code – so that if a user clicks on a thumb, the slideshow either stops (and gives the user control of restarting) OR just continues from that point forward?
OR – 3. Is there a better approach to doing what I’d like to accomplish here?
[FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]Any and all pointers are more than welcome – but do bear in mind you’re dealing with a very lay (but willing to learn some harder stuff) person here! Many thanks --[/FONT]
