Photo Gallery?

programming flash
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What’s the best way of doing a photo gallery in flash?
I’ve looked through the photo gallery tutorial on kirupa, but I need to be able to make thumbnails of them first and then click to see bigger images…
I dont know what’s the best way of doing this…
the more images I have in my gallery file, the bigger the file is!

What’s a more efficient way of doing this? :blush:

thanks everyone!

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Dynamically via “XML” or “PHP” or you can just loadMovieNum() each .jpg from the server on demand so they don’t have to be loaded in advance.

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Hi RelandR!
Thanks for your reply…so when I use ‘loadmovienum’ how do I get it to load where I want?

I tried doing something like this:

on (release) {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“container”, 0);
loadMovieNum(“gallerypics/set1_01.jpg”, “container”);
container._x = 150 ;
container._y = 20 ;
}

but it pops up the image in a new window… what am i doing wrong??

Please explain! :slight_smile:

thank you!

4

Howdy…

Use loadMovie() function instead of loadMovieNum() function… :wink:
Also, you will need a routine that will check if your JPEG file is fully loaded or not so that you can change the property of its container movieclip…

5

:hair:
I did try using loadmovie instead of loadmovienum…but when I did that, I didnt get anything loaded… ARGH!!! FRUSTRATED!!! I HATE FLASH!! :*( help help help please!

6

make sure your file is in non-progressive jpg format. gif, png, bmp… won´t work.

the command should look like this:
[AS]
loadMovieNum(“yourFile.jpg”, level);

// or

loadMovie(“yourFile.jpg”, “target”);
[/AS]

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ok thanks everyone for helping me with this…
this’ll be the last question for this stupid gallery…I swear! :frowning:

I finally got the images to load properly using the ‘loading techniques’ tutorial…but now how do I unload it? When you want to go to other sections of the website, after viewing the photogallery, that last picture you just viewed stays on the website…how do I get rid of it?

Do I use something like this?

on (Press) {
unloadMovie(“jpg name”);

On all my navigation buttons? But if I do that, how do I unload whatever jpg is currently on the screen? Know what I mean?

thanks a bunch!!!

8

depends…

how are you loading them in the first place: levels or target?

levels:
unloadMovieNum(1);

target:
unloadMovie(“yourFile.jpg”);

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This is what I have:

on (release) {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“container”,1);
_root.container.loadMovie(“gallerypics/set1_01.jpg”);
_root.container._x = 9 ;
_root.container._y = 77;

_root.onMouseDown = function () {
startDrag (“container”,false) ;
}
_root.onMouseUp = function () {
stopDrag () ;
}
}

Which I got from the loading tutorial…
I can use:
unloadMovie(“yourFile.jpg”);
On all of my navigation buttons, but there’s no way I can know which jpg file they are on in order to unload that specific one… Does that make sense? How do I unload no matter which jpg file they are on? :hangover:

10

try this:

_root.container.removeMovieClip();

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:beam:

THANK YOU GUIG0!!!

I actually used

on (release) {
_root.container.unloadMovie();
}

but the _root.container was what got me…I didnt know what I was supposed to do!

Thank you all sooooo very much!!! :love:

I still hate flash tho… ;( LOL

12

LOL :stuck_out_tongue:

that´s ok… sometimes i hate it oo :crazy:

you´re welcome, i´m glad to help =)