Comments on: Making the ultimate dynamic image gallery in Flash 8 – part 1 of 2

By: anuj chitrakar

anuj chitrakar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:23:38 +0000

i am definately confused on folder structure. where did this mypage.html came from ?

mean while i will read xml tutorial

By: anuj chitrakar

anuj chitrakar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:58 +0000

as i expected, something went wrong. i thought i was doing fine until i reached step 9. Is the file structure compiled in dreamweaver ? probably not. actually i was thinking on step 8. that i didn’t something funny, ofcourse i have read how xml works….any idea ?

By: Nithin k

Nithin k — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:43:12 +0000

thanks for this tutorial, i want to do more with images, can you please send me the latest styles of image galley with explained.

By: Myke

Myke — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:48:02 +0000

can someone make this in Flash CS4 please?

By: Xa Xa Xa

Xa Xa Xa — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:56:49 +0000

Last comment, I swear.

I was having trouble with the previous and next buttons working when I pull in the gallery SWF into another. Because I had just tacked the prev and next button code to the END of Gallery Actions, I guess it just didn’t “get around to it.” Moving that snippet code to the top of Gallery Actions AND removing “_root.” fixed it.

By: Pikeman

Pikeman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:45:39 +0000

Xa Xa Xa that ain’t correct, here it is

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
_root.prev_btn.onRelease = function() {
if (Number(bigNumber)> 0) {
if (Number(bigNumber) == 1){
bigNumber = picsNO;
}else{
bigNumber–;
};
bigImagePath = “gallery/”+whichGallery+”/”+bigNumber+”.jpg”;
disableThumbs();
loader.loadClip(bigImagePath,target);
if (clickedGallery>0) {
var descPosition:Number = 0;
for (i=0; i=1) {
if (Number(bigNumber) == picsNO){
bigNumber = 1;
}else{
bigNumber++;
};
bigImagePath = “gallery/”+whichGallery+”/”+bigNumber+”.jpg”;
disableThumbs();
loader.loadClip(bigImagePath,target);
if (clickedGallery>0) {
var descPosition:Number = 0;
for (i=0; i descPosition += imagesInGallery[i];
}
descPosition = descPosition+Number(bigNumber)-1;
imageDesc = descriptions[descPosition];
} else {
imageDesc = descriptions[Number(bigNumber)-1];
}
descText.text = imageDesc;
}else{
bigNumber = 1;
}
currentThumbnail.enabled = false;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

why?
first of all you must give each Pic it's proper text. As you cycle through the gallery with the Next and Prev button each picture must have it's own text displayed.
I included a variable at the begining of the code

var picsNO:Number = 0;

this is the equivalent for number of pics in the gallery
In function parseGalleries()
place
picsNO = currentGallery.childNodes.length;

ATENTION this will not work as I created only one gallery and eliminated the menu as I want to place this gallery inside a web page. For this to work you will have to create an array to store the number of images for each gallery somehow like this:

picsNO[i] = currentGallery.childNodes.length;

after that in Next and Prev button you will have to ask about picsNO[currentGallery]

In this case as you reach the end of the Gallery with the Next button it will jump to the first image and so on

THX for this tutorial!

By: Xa Xa Xa

Xa Xa Xa — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:40:04 +0000

It appears that I’ve run into a snag. Gallery works fine until I call in the gallery SWF into another parent SWF- buttons are broken. Any suggestions? You can also shoot me an email.

By: Xa Xa Xa

Xa Xa Xa — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:59:08 +0000

Here’s the rest of the code Dave was talking about, in full. I had just appended this onto what was already there in the Gallery Actions’ Actions – Frame window. I do admit that my Actionscript is rusty, but this should work.

_root.prev_btn.onRelease = function() {
if (bigNumber>1) {
bigNumber–;
bigImagePath= “gallery/”+whichGallery+”/”+bigNumber+”.jpg”;
disableThumbs();
loader.loadClip(bigImagePath,target);
};
}

_root.nxt_btn.onRelease = function() {
if (bigNumber>1) {
bigNumber++;
bigImagePath= “gallery/”+whichGallery+”/”+bigNumber+”.jpg”;
disableThumbs();
loader.loadClip(bigImagePath,target);
};
}

By: talavang

talavang — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:47:30 +0000

am still using this app

3 years and counting

By: Sensa

Sensa — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:30:45 +0000

Hi! Can someone send me the sourcefiles? Unfortunately I got some errors… Thx! szilajmaggot@gmail.com