Hi All,
Appologies for the long post. Wanted to make sure I covered everything.
To give you an understanding of my experience with web dev: Flash - Just learning, PHP - Advanced, HTML - Intermediate, SQL - Advanced.
I’ve been reading through the tutorials for XML and Flash Photogallery and the follow-up one Adding Thumbnails. I’m trying to learn flash at the same time as building my first flash site - Which is a photogallery for my gf now that she’s a model.
The idea I have is to have a vertical scrolling list of thumbnail size pics of the different photographers on the left. Clicking on one of these fills a bar at the top with a scrolling list of thumbnails of the different shoots (i.e. a bunch of photos are done on 1 day and are kept together and she does many shoots with each photographer). The thumbnail would be from one of the pics from that shoot. Clicking on one of the shoot thumbnails will make the thumbnails go away and new ones will apear (ones of the photos from the shoot) in their place. Clicking on these will display a bigger picture in the photo frame.
Reading through the tutorials I have figured out how to make a list of thumbnails appear and how to make the bigger ones appear. I’ve figured out all the action code required.
What I’d like to know is if it’s possible to implement my multiple thumbnail idea?
What I’m thinking is I would (for a start) need multiple XML files and in turn would need to load them induvidual. What I’m trying to figure out is if I can load and action multiple XML files in one action script, would i need multiple scripts, is it posible to have multiple scripts?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
I have already created the interface in photoshop. you can view it here http://www.coffeenut.co.uk/interfaceC.gif
Thanks in advance,
Steve