Creating a thumbnail gallery

hey,
i have a folder of photos that i wish to place in a flash
thumbnail gallery. does anyone have suggestions for a method or
have implemented an efficient method that has worked for them?

Nancy,
Thankyou! THe link set up worked great.
I have no idea why my teacher wouldn't recomend this to me. If I knew about being able to do this instead of hot spots I would have the first time.
I tested it out in safari and firefox and everything is ok.
I didn't test it out yet on internet explorer yet because im on a mac.
i did have one problem though. i tested it out in opera, and when you click on the thumbnail, it does go to the image, but doesnt obide by the size.
instead of having it fit the screen like all the other browsers, it previews the picture at the actual pixels filling the entire screen forcing you to scroll to see everything.
is there any way to fix this problem? not many people use this browser so its not too big of a deal. i can't remember exactly but it might have been the hotspot set up where you can set it so the size fits to the browser. can i set this up with the link? and if so how? it seems like it already is working fine for everything else
thanks,
Mike

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Hi,
I want to create a thumbnail gallery with images loaded in at
run-time. Can an flash actionscript be passed variables at
run-time. I want the actionscript to recieve filename(s) as a
variable so it knows what to display.

Well I don't believe I am confusing . I want thumb pics on
flash. I click on a thumb and the larger pic appears. I don't know
what thumbs to load until I select them from a php script. The php
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I am onlt trying to find an example of doing this , else i
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How can I create an image gallery with "next" buttons?

So I am almost done with my portfolio site (YES!)..now I just need the actual content (the images). My site is written in AS3.
I've watched many tutorials on how to create an image gallery (auto scrolling ones, scrolling ones that require mouse hover, etc etc), but those aren't what I am looking for.
I want a gallery that looks exactly like this one here:
http://jalbum.net/res/help/integrating-tutorial.html
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Watching tutorials and learning from them are two different things. If you have learned from them you should be able to use what you have learned to devise a gallery such as the one you link to. If you have learned from them and cannot use what you learned, then you probably need to find/learn more.
If you study the design you linked you should be able to reason out what elements you need to devise... it is not overly complicated.
For the large picture you could have a Loader into which you load whatever image is selected from the thumnails. To get a brief transition you could just set the alpha of the Loader to 0 when an image change is occuring and gradually fade it in after the image has loaded.
The greatest challenge you are likely to face is in getting the thumbnails to advance back and forth depending on which is selected. All of the thumbs would be placed in a container (movieclip or sprite) and that would be masked so that only a portion of them is visible.
All thumbs that are not selected have their alpha property set to some value less than 1. Selecting one calls for the file it associates with to be loaded into the Loader. If the choice happens to lie off screen, then you need to move the movieclip that contains all of the thumbs some set value in the right (+x) or left (-x) direction.
If you want the thumbnails to wrap infinitely then when one leave the thumbnails area for movement in a direction, you need to take that thumb and relocate it to the other end of the thumbs in the container.

Help to create a photo gallery..

Can anyone visit this site..
www.ted.com
I want to create a photo gallery like that.. I mean when i hover my mouse over a thumbnail my image should enlarge.. and if i click i should be able to download..
I want that animation while loading between my galleries..
please help me.. please.. no need that various sizes for all tiles.. no problem even if all tiles are of same size.. please.. I need it so badly..
thanks in advance

Whenever I need a gallery like this i usually just buy one
from:
http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/
they are usually like $8-10 and have saved me quite a bit of
time... there are plenty of tutorials out there for custom ones,
but for $8 its hard to pass up a pre-built... i know this doesnt
answer your question exactly but i figured i would give my 2 cents,
hope this helps :)

Creating a photo gallery like the China Gallery in Adobe Labs. How?

I have photos in several categories (I'll use 2, "frank" and "wolfie" as examples here). What I'd like to do is build a photo gallery like the China Photo Gallery shown in the Adobe Labs site, where the user can switch between categories without going to a different page. Here's what I've done so far and how I'm stuck:
I created a photo gallery with the instructions in the tutorial "Building a photo album with the Spry Framwork". I then inserted a Tabbed Panels widget for navigating between the categories.
I set up an XML file as follows:
/* frank category */
<photo
path = "001p.png"
width = "467"
height = "467"
thumbpath = "001p.png"
thumbwidth = "85"
thumbheight = "85">
</photo>
/* wolfie category */
<photo
path = "001f.png"
width = "467"
height = "467"
thumbpath = "001f.png"
thumbwidth = "85"
thumbheight = "85">
</photo>
To create the div holding the thumbnails for the "frank" category, I entered the following:
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Then, in the tabbed panel set for the "wolfie" category, I did the same thing, substituting "wolfie" for "frank". However, since there is only one xml file, spaceholders for all of the thumbnails appear in the thumbnail div for the frank category. I realize that I'll probably need to create a separate xml file for each category, but how do I set it up so the correct xml file is accessed when the link in the tab is clicked? Or am I approaching this all wrong?
From reviewing the source for the China gallery, it appears that they set up links to different xml files instead of Tabbed Panels. How does that work? There are also some javascript files I can't find anywhere on Adobe's site.
Thanks

Hi,
If you have seperate XML file but with the same basic structure then you can change the XML a Spry dataset refers to and regenerate the spry region without reloading the full page.
So on my photo gallery page I can change the album the photos are shown from via the seturl sprydata function as below. dsPhotos being my Spry dataset that points to the relevant XML dataset with my image references and captions etc. My XML is actually dynamically generated from Picasa RSS feeds (and RSS feeds are XML) but the principle will be the same with your static XML.
First I add an event listener for when someone clicks on an album (the li tag within my div with the id "albums" holds a photo and title for each album.)
function Albums()
var myalbums = Spry.$$("#albums li", "TabbedPanels1")
var rows = dsAlbums.getData();
var setListener = function( element, value )
Spry.Utils.addEventListener( element, "click", function(){ showAlbum( value ); },false );
for( var i = 0, length = myalbums.length; i < length; i++ )
setListener( myalbums[i], i );
Then this is the code which changes the photo album to be shown. (when the user clicks the relevant album)
function showAlbum(i)
pauseShow();
pImage = 'No';
var rows = dsAlbums.getData();
var albumid = rows[i]["albumid"];
var url = "xml/PicasaAphotoFeed.asp?albumid=" + albumid;
dsPhotos.setURL(url);
dsPhotos.loadData();
var rowcount = dsAlbums.getRowCount() - 1;
var nextalbum;
var navnext;
var n;
The page is here www.thehmc.co.uk/photo5.html is you want to see it in context.
In your case showAlbum would switch between Frank.xml or Wolfie.xml depending on how you decide to name your xml datasets.
Regards
Phil

What is the best way to create a photo gallery?

Hi,
I want to create a photo gallery in Dreamweaver without using any pre-built "web gallery" function. What's the best way to swap the images when I click the "next" button? Do I create a new Dreamweaver page for each photograph? Is there a more efficient way to do it than that?
Thanks,
Gordon

Is there a more efficient way to do it than that?
Most definitely. With scripts.
57+ Free Galleries, Slideshows & Lightbox solutions:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/57-free-image-gallery-slideshow-and-lightbox-solutions/
20 Best jQuery Slideshow Scripts
http://graphicalerts.com/20-best-jquery-slideshow-image-photo-gallery-plugins/
If you're a photographer or managing a large collection of images, look at JAlbum.
Download the software. Drag & Drop your images/folder of images into the work space. Hit create album. In a few seconds, jAlbum generates your HTML pages and thumbnail images for you. A real time saver with plenty of customizable skins to choose from.
Download: http://jalbum.net/software;jsessionid=qkhdjzieqjtg1rz4x2anjlk5d
Skins: http://jalbum.net/skins
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Creating an image gallery

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here
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:25:09 +0000 (UTC), "hydroculture"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I don't know the answer - wish I did, but I have been
using a substitute where
>I click on the thumbnail - which via a hyperlink takes me
to a page where the
>large image appears. Not as neat as what we both want ,
but gets the same
>effect,
If clicking a thumbnail is an option then this is a better
solution -
a free extension from PVII:
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Steve
steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com

CS6 How to create a photo gallery?

CS6 How to create a photo Gallery?

I like Fancybox2. It's a big improvement over Lightbox & the original Fancybox.
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<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>

<link href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fancybox/2.1.4/jquery.fancybox.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">
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<h1><a href="http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/">Fancybox2</a> Viewer with images</h1>

<div id="thumbs"> <p><a class="fancybox" data-fancybox-group="gallery" href="http://placehold.it/400x320.jpg" title="optional captions"><img src="http://placehold.it/160x120.jpg" alt="Thumbnail 1" /></a> <br />
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<p><a class="fancybox" data-fancybox-group="gallery" href="http://placehold.it/400x320.jpg" title="optional captions"><img src="http://placehold.it/160x120.jpg" alt="Thumbnail 2" /></a> <br />
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FAQ: How can I create a scrolling gallery of images?

You can use Flash Catalyst to create galleries, for example a scrolling list of thumbnails that display larger images when clicked. Here are some tutorials that explain how:
Create a photo gallery (using list interactions), on the FlashCats blog
Create a data list component -- Don't let the title scare you, a "data list" is a really powerful component to get to know better; it enables creation of very creative visual things like galleries. When you need repeating items, consider using a data list.

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http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2
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function startShow()
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if (shuffle)
Spry.$$("#slideshowPlaying")[0].innerHTML = "<p>You are playing the slideshow in shuffle mode</p>";
You can see the working page here www.thehmc.co.uk/photo.html
Our club pages works with our photos and albums on our Picasa account because that way you don't need to produce the xml, Picasa does that via it's rss feeds.
Feel free to use any of the code I've written in your pages or start with a basic version as I've outlined at the top - that's how the above page started out then I styled it with css and added the fancier stuff once the basics were working.
Regards
Phil

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Im using Apex version 4.2.6... I followed the instructions in a blog to create an image gallery in apex applications....
http://apex-notes.blogspot.com/2008/12/build-image-gallery-using-apex.html
I have created all process by following that blog... But the pikachoose plugin is not available to download....
Is there is any other plugin or any other alternate way to create an image gallery in apex???
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Hello everyone, In this tutorial I'll show how is simple to build your Flickr photo gallery using jQuery framework and JSON. We'll see how to setup thumbnail's numbers, convert your RSS Flickr in a JOSOn format and display theme. Thank You for your attention!
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View source on this page which shows the non-destructive filter in action to see how it's done! You can also spice it up a little for products, etc. by using this method. The key is to create a dynamic xml syntax from your database and then use the dynamic xml script location as your xmlDataSet in the search page.
I have an example of the auto suggest search on my homepage http://DwFAQ.info
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You can view the source code on my homepage to see the location of the dynamic xml syntax referenced as the xmlDataSet location and how it was implemented into the site.

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I'm creating a portfolio of websites I have designed.
I have it working with classic ASP & XML, but want a
Flash version too.
So far:
1) I have a sliding thumbnail gallery working in Flash MX
(using AS2) whereby clicking on thumbnails loads in a larger view
of the image. These images are screenshots of the websites.
2) I have loaded an xml file which contains locations of
thumbnails & larger images, as well as URL of each website, and
some text to describe each site's content. I am able to loop
through the xml to retrieve the data I need for each site.
I would now like to merge the 2.
i.e. click on thumbnail to slide in the larger image, and
dynamically add the URL and text descriptions for each site.
Can someone just point me in the right direction... I'll then
try to fill in the blanks, and post again with more specific
queries if needed.
Thanks.

Hi,
It would be helpful if you added a new unique identifier field to your collection to ensure that the correct record gets updated. In the discussion below, I am assuming you have a collection named Col1 with columns ID, ImageURL and Description.
ImageURL points to the images that get displayed in the gallery. The text in Description is bound to the input text box (named Text1) instances.
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Thanks
Robin

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