# Photo Gallery?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 25, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449 "2003-03-25T07:17:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@digitalxwitch](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/digitalxwitch)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/1 "2003-03-25T07:17:52Z")
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? 😊
thanks everyone!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/2 "2003-03-25T07:28:15Z")
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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there is a couple of great tutorials within Kirupa on slide shows…use the “SEARCH” box above …seek and ye shall find…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/3 "2003-03-25T09:08:21Z")
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! 🙂
thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/4 "2003-03-25T10:07:17Z")
Howdy…
Use loadMovie() function instead of loadMovieNum() function… 😉
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…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/5 "2003-03-25T11:29:11Z")
: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!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/6 "2003-03-25T11:48:10Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/7 "2003-03-25T18:01:31Z")
ok thanks everyone for helping me with this…
this’ll be the last question for this stupid gallery…I swear! ☹
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!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/8 "2003-03-25T18:25:28Z")
depends…
how are you loading them in the first place: levels or target?
levels:
unloadMovieNum(1);
* * *
target:
unloadMovie(“yourFile.jpg”);
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/9 "2003-03-25T21:17:11Z")
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:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/10 "2003-03-25T21:20:50Z")
try this:
\_root.container.removeMovieClip();
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/11 "2003-03-25T21:41:23Z")
: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
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photo-gallery/16449/12 "2003-03-25T21:49:56Z")
LOL 😛
that´s ok… sometimes i hate it oo :crazy:
you´re welcome, i´m glad to help =)