Flash & xml gallery problem

i have a flash & xml gallery source. whatever click the
thumbnails, opening first image. where is the problem? i need help,
please...
Flash & Xml
Gallery

then that's a problem. sometimes your cookie may loaded
sooner than the needed frame in your swf and when you try to go to
a frame that hasn't been downloaded, the swf will stay on frame 1.
i assume you already have a stop() on frame 1 and you check
the cookie's value before proceeding. in addition to waiting for
the cookie to load, you should wait for the needed frame of your
swf to load.
so, if you're not using a loop now to check for your cookie,
you'll need one for your swf to check its _framesloaded property
before advancing the timeline.

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* I am providing thumbnails and XML is loading external FLvs
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Interesting problem.
I thought initially that this could be easily solved with Action Sequences on the imported SWF file. Action Sequences will control the visibility, play(), stop() and go to frame, it doesn't stop the audio that has already started playing in the imported SWF.
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Imported the SWF and then set an ActionSequence to go to Frame 0 and Stop when I exited the state where I wanted my SWF playing
Also set an ActionSequence to go to Frame 0 and Play when I wanted my SWF to start playing again
See the source .fla and .fxp here: TestingSwfSoundStopStart.zip
Best wishes,
Tanya

Flash & Dreamweaver gallery problem

Hey guys,
I am helping out a friend that I can't let down and I am afraid I may of bitten off more then I can chew.
He wanted me to put up all his fashion shots on a webpage and it is proven harder to combine the flash gallery with html then I thought.
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I sliced up the white background and deleted the middle part thinking it would work, but it has not. I tried placing the gallery on top of the white background with a table, but that didn't work and because the flash gallery enlarges the pictures when clicked it needs more room then the size of the galley it's self.
I used this Gallery and modified the code to suit my needs. I have included the link if that helps : http://www.freeflashcomponents.net/flash-galleries-slideshows/html-xml-image-grid-as2.html
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Flash Image Gallery load problem

This a familiar problem that has been put up here a thousand
times I'm sure but as yet I haven't been able to find a solution
for it. I've put together a simple image gallery using Flash and an
XML file. It works perfectly on my system but there are issues with
the images loading properly when I put them onto my site. I know
very little Flash, I've been using a pre-made gallery that I
downloaded but since it works on my computer I assume I should be
able to get it to work online too. The thumbnails for the file seem
to work fine and the information from the XML file is obviously
being accessed, however the main images are not loading. I've
included all the code below (Actionscript, XML and the Web coding),
if someone could help me before I put my fist through a wall that
would be great:
Actionscript
stop();
//specify the url where folder is located below (if
applicable)
toadd="";
t = 0;
l = 0;
theside = 1;
galxml = new XML();
galxml.load(toadd+"flash/fashion/easy-xml-gallery-2.xml");
galxml.ignoreWhite = true;
galxml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
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for (n=0; n<maxnum; n++) {
specs = galxml.firstChild.childNodes[n];
//TEXT FOR SIDE NAV
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thumbclip = eval("side.thumbs.thumbs"+n);
thumbclip._x = n*100;
thumbclip.thetitle = specs.attributes.name;
thumbclip.theurl = specs.attributes.theurl;
thumbclip.thecaption = specs.attributes.caption;
thumbclip.thenum = n+1;
thumbclip._alpha = 100;
loadMovie(toadd+"/flash/fashion/images/"+(n+1)+"b.jpg",
thumbclip.thumbload.thumbload2);
play();
side.thumbs.thumbsb._visible = false;
mainperc.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (mainperc.perc<98) {
mainperc._alpha += 5;
mainperc.perc = Math.round(l/t*100);
mainperc.perctext = mainperc.perc+"%";
mainperc.ltext = "OF THUMBNAILS LOADED
("+Math.round(t/1024)+"kb)";
if (mainperc.perc>98) {
//mainperc._alpha -= 5;
if (mainperc._alpha<-50) {
delete mainperc.onEnterFrame;
XML
<gallery>
<pic1 name="ONE">
<pic2 name="TWO"/>
<pic3 name="THREE"/>
<pic4 name="FOUR"/>
<pic5 name="FIVE"/>
<pic6 name="SIX"/>
<pic7 name="SEVEN"/>
<pic8 name="EIGHT"/>
<pic9 name="NINE"/>
<pic10 name="TEN"/>
</gallery>
Webpage coding
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>shorty designs</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<p class="Sections"><img src="images/version5.jpg"
alt="shorty logo" width="166" height="85" /><span
class="contact">Contact by email:
[email protected]</span></p>
<p class="Sections">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','wid th','536','height','518','align','right','src','/flash/fashion/fashion','quality','high',' pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwa veFlash','movie','/flash/fashion/fashion'
); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript>
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"
width="536" height="518" align="right">
<param name="movie" value="/flash/fashion/fashion.swf"
/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="/flash/fashion/fashion.swf" width="536"
height="518" align="right" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object>
</noscript>
</p>
<p class="section_back">Fashion</p>
<p class="section_reg"><a
href="travel.html">Travel</a></p>
<p class="section_reg"><a
href="wedding.html">Wedding</a></p>
<p class="section_reg"><a
href="layout.html">Layout</a></p>
<p class="section_reg"><a
href="personal.html">Personal</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Yep, these are the directions:
this is very easy to update. You only need to edit the simple
xml file and add images to the images folder.
step 1.
add as many images as you like at the size 536 x 403
step 2.
create thumbnails for the above images at size 100x75
step 3.
update the xml file with the name url and caption for each
image. (to take the url off just click through to the button on the
main picture and delete the script that says getURL(theurl)
step 4.
open flash file and change the 'toadd' variable to the folder
where the flash file and image folder is located on your site.
thats it done.
The frustrating thing now is that the files are finally being
found but the thumbnail function has decided to mess up.

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Hello friends
i am trying but
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Hi John,
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So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
If you are unable to fix as per above, please post link to actual page.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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Here is the sample gallery: http://www.chimeddorj.com
Here goes the Sript>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
RemoveAllThumbs.onLoad = function(){
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import gs.TweenFilterLite;
import gs.TweenLite;
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largeImageUrl = [];
thumbUrl = [];
captions = [];
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
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thumbUrl[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
largeImageUrl[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
captions[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
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thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg.moveTo(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x,thumbMask_mc.thum bBox_mc._y);
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg.lineTo(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x+thumbMask_mc.thum bBox_mc._width,thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._y);
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg.lineTo(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x+thumbMask_mc.thum bBox_mc._width,thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._y+thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._height);
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg.lineTo(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x,thumbMask_mc.thum bBox_mc._y+thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._height);
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg.lineTo(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x,thumbMask_mc.thum bBox_mc._y);
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg.endFill();
//load the thumbs
loadThumbs();
Mouse.removeListener(mouseListener);//kill the mouselistener if it is added
slide.load("paintings.xml");//load xml
var imageWidth:Number = 0;//default x position of our movieclips relative to containing movieclip
var buffer:Number = 20;//padding between images
var thumbsToShow:Number = 5//
LOAD THUMBNAILS, ADD ACTIONS & PADDING TO THUMBS
//here we load in our thumbnails
function loadThumbs() {
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Clip.removeListener(mclListener);
//attach and associate with a variable a MC to hold each loaded movieClip
var container:MovieClip = thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.attachMovie("thumbBox", "thumbBox"+p, thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:imageWidth, _y:0});
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var Clip:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadStart = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
target_mc._alpha = 0;//set thumb alpha to be zero
//handle loading progress - simple counter here
mclListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number):Void {
//use this if you want to indicate loading of your thumbnails etc...
//loadTxt.captions_txt.text = Math.floor(bytesLoaded/bytesTotal*100)+"%";
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
//here we can access our loaded clips properties!
//here is where we attach functions to our clip so that we can dynamically create rollovers etc.
//make our thumbnails visible again
TweenLite.to(target_mc, 2, {_alpha:100});
//based off image width this places our thumbs next to each other
imageWidth = (imageWidth+target_mc._width)+buffer;
//associate a variable here with our p value, we use this later to load in large images
target_mc.pictureValue = p;
//handle image rollovers these are active only on the thumb image!!! Watch the US spelling!
target_mc.onRollOver = function() {
TweenFilterLite.to(target_mc,.4,{type:"Color", brightness:1.5, ease:None.easeOut});
target_mc.onRollOut = function() {
TweenFilterLite.to(target_mc,4,{type:"Color", brightness:1, ease:None.easeOut});
//handle a click on a thumbnail
target_mc.onRelease = function() {
//load large images
mcLoader.loadClip(largeImageUrl[target_mc.pictureValue],largeImage_mc);
caption.text = captions[target_mc.pictureValue];;
p++;//increment value to cycle through array
if (p<thumbUrl.length) {
loadThumbs();//create loop
if (p == thumbUrl.length) {
/*we set this variable here because this is where we know the length of our thumbnails containing mc.
After we have loaded all content in. Makes sense really!*/
mcWidth = thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._width;
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thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg._width = mcWidth;
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.thumbTrackBg._height = thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._height
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Clip.addListener(mclListener);
Clip.loadClip(thumbUrl[p],container);
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function removeAllThumbs():Void {
for (var i in thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc) {
if (typeof (thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc[i]) == "movieclip") {
removeMovieClip(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.getInstanceAtDepth(thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc[i].ge tDepth()));
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._width = thumbMask_mc._width
/*sampleRemoveAllButton.onRelease = function(){
removeAllThumbs()
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/*generic load object here we handle loading in external images etc
this block of code loads the large images into the bright blue mc
for instance, you could fade in/out big images or make a progress indicator
using this block of script*/
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onLoadStart = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
//empty
listener.onLoadProgress = function(target:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number):Void {
//amountLoaded = Math.floor((bytesLoaded/bytesTotal)*100);//calulate a loading percentage!
listener.onLoadInit = function(target:MovieClip):Void {
//empty
mcLoader.addListener(listener);
MOUSE LISTENER
//this handles the panning of the thumbnails
mouseListener = new Object();
mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
if (thumbMask_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
maskOver();//call the scroll function
SCROLLER FUNCTION
var scrollSpeed:Number = 5;
var halfMaskWidth:Number = thumbMask_mc._width/2;
var npixels:Number;
var mcWidth:Number = thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._width;
var maskWidth:Number = Math.floor(thumbMask_mc._width);
function slideThumbs() {
// stop scrolling if we are off the mask and delete the enterframe event
if (!thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
// mouse over left half of slider:
if (thumbMask_mc._xmouse>0 && thumbMask_mc._xmouse<thumbMask_mc._x+halfMaskWidth) {
npixels = (halfMaskWidth-thumbMask_mc._xmouse)/halfMaskWidth*scrollSpeed;
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x += npixels;
//stop sliding too far to the left
if (thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x>=0) {
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x = 0;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
// mouse over right half of slider:
if (thumbMask_mc._xmouse>halfMaskWidth && thumbMask_mc._xmouse<thumbMask_mc._x+thumbMask_mc._width) {
npixels = (thumbMask_mc._xmouse-halfMaskWidth)/halfMaskWidth*scrollSpeed;
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x -= npixels;
//stop sliding too far to the right
if (thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x<=-(mcWidth-maskWidth)) {
thumbMask_mc.thumbBox_mc._x = -(mcWidth-maskWidth);
delete this.onEnterFrame;
//function to do the scrolling man!
function maskOver() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
slideThumbs();

I am using Flash CS 4, like I mentioned earlier, I am making this site on some one's pre-made flash file. There is a movie symbol for loading the large images (called largeImage_mc). I resized this movie clip to 550x450 px (landscape). And positioned it at X=200 Y=0 (top left corner registration point or the anchor point).
The movie clip could be dragged to any position. But images that are loaded into this bo is always aligning to the top left corner of this movie symbol.
If I calculate the actual center of this image loading area (regarding its position on the window), it would be x=425, y=225.
I hope my writing makes sence.
actual site: www.chimeddorj.com

XML Gallery - Picture Display

Well, with a bit of help from these forums, and some others,
I've got almost all of the kinks worked out of a Flash/XML photo
gallery that I've been working on.
The only problem now is getting the full-size images to
center themselves. See here:
http://phenixdesigns.net/testing/art_index.html
I've got that black box on the stage to show where the images
will load. Their top left corner will begin at the top left corner
of the box. That would be great if all of the full-size images were
the same size.
I'd like the images to load centered on the stage, but I'm
not sure how to accomplish this. I've obviously got them showing up
on the stage already, but I don't know what to do with XML, AS, or
what else in order to get them all to be absolutely centered upon
loading.
Thanks!

I'm not sure what you mean by telling you what it traces...
not sure how to find that sort of thing out?
But anyway... I made those changes, and it's still at the
same point. No centering, just lining up where the "loader" MC is.
Edit: Also, I've only changed the word "holder" to "loader"
in the script, as "loader" is the MC where I want the images to
load. Is this the only spot I've got to change something to
"loader?" Should all references to "target" remain "target," or
should they also be changed to "loader?"
Thanks so much for the help!

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