Customizing Flash Galleries by editing the XML

The controls within the Web tab allow you to customize the Lightroom Flash Gallery templates in a lot of ways. However, you can customize them much further by editing the XML files that are generated when you export a gallery. This requires almost no knowledge of Flash or HTML, and can be done with almost any text editor.
Here are few examples of what you can do:
Add a background image
Turn off (hide) the Title Bar and/or Menu Bar
Change the width, transparency, and color of borders around thumbnails and images
Turn thumbnail and image drop shadows on/off
Change the transition between images, including straight cut
Change image and transition durations
Change the color and transparency of all parts of a gallery including image and thumbnail area backgrounds and borders, individual buttons parts, scroll bar parts, etc
Change the height of the captions display area
Change text fonts and sizes
And much more
To start playing with this, simply open the style.xml file found within an exported gallery inside the ..resources/styles folder. You can also preview the gallery by double clicking on the index.html file, then make changes to the style.xml file in your text editor, save, and then refresh your browser to see the effect. Once youve achieved the look you want, you can copy your edited style.xml file into any gallery you export.
Note: any text editor will work, but using an app that has good HTML or XML editing features (Adobe Dreamweaver for example) will make it much easier.
Ive posted a few tips and tricks articles about how to do this on our blog at http://blog.bluefire.tv and plan to add more from time to time.

gsimpson,
There is no way via the XML to change the behavior where the smallest rendition will scale down to fit the window. Since the gallery itself scales to fit the window, scroll bars would need to appear on the image itself if the window is too small. This is in fact the behavior of the galleries in B4 if I remember correctly, but there is no way to achieve that with the 1.0 version.
However, you can achieve your goal with a bit of html work. One easy way it to "fix" the size of your gallery within your web page (by using pixel values in the embed code for example) such that it is set big enough that the smallest rendition will not be scaled.
Or, if you can do fairly advanced HTML you could let your gallery scale up, but not below a certain size. To do that, you'd need to put the gallery inside a "container" within your html page, (e.g a div or table cell) and then limit how small that container can be, and make sure that the container itself will grow to fill the available space.
Another alternative would be to make your own "small" renditions, that are so small that they will not scale at the gallery's minimum size. Speaking of minimum size of the gallery, wouldn't it be nice if you could set that? Who knows, maybe someone will contribute that code to the AMG open source project...

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