Free Flash Photo Album 2

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• How to use
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Features

• It is FREE
• Dynamic Picture loading
• Easy to install and easy to change content
• Show pictures automatically with slideshow
• Integrate to any web site
• No server side scripting or database requirement
• Adds great look and functionality to your web site
• Easy to read XML based image captions and configuration file
• Ability to add custom links for each image

Download

Download Flash Photo Album 2 and source code (fla,as)

Free Flash Photo Album 2 downloaded 9,187 times since 2007-06-10.

Flash Photo Album 2 uses:

• mc_tween2.as class (need to download seperately from source) by Zeh Fernando for animations
• XMLSA class (included in package) by Max Ziebell for converting xml to simple array.

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Examples

Live examples:

• detaildecor.com
• lolakutyakozmetika.hu
• www.ajel.yoyo.pl
• www.habitatmchenry.org/photo_gallery2.cfm
• www.maturak.com (violates license)

How to use

1. Extract file contents
2. Open gallery.xml file and define mandotary values:
   • Location of images: imagePath="album1/images/"
   • Location of thumbnails: thumbPath="album1/thumbs/"
   • Each image name & caption. (caption is optional):<image><filename href="http://www.google.com">img01.jpg</filename><caption>Caption 1</caption></image>
3. Customise gallery with extra options to suit your website
4. Embed flash file to your page
   
   • <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7" width="600" height="400">
     <param name="movie" value="veppa_photo_album2.swf" />
     <param name="quality" value="high" />
     <embed src="veppa_photo_album2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="400"></embed>
     </object>

Customize

Extra attributes to customize flash photo album.

Name	Value(s)(default in bold for multiple choice values)	Description
maxImageWidth	400	Big images max width. Will fit to this size if image is bigger.
maxImageHeight	400	Big images max height
imageFit	normal, crop	normal: If big image is bigger than maxImageWidth and maxImageHeight then will fit it in that box crop: will crop big image to fit the max image size attribute
textColor	0x666666	text color for image caption displayed at the bottom of the big image
frameColor	0x666666	Color for frame arounf images
frameWidth	10	Width of the frame around big image. Set to 0 for frameless image
thumbFrameWidth	2	Width of the frame around thumbnails. Set to 0 for frameless image
stagePadding	10	Padding around gallery.
thumbnailColumns	2	Number of visible columns for thumbnails
thumbnailRows	4	number of visible rows for thumbnails
navPosition	right,left,top,bottom,none	Defines where show thumbnails. If set to none thumbnails are not shown
imagePath	images/	Path for images folder.
thumbPath	thumbs/	Path for thumbnails folder
thumbWidth	60	With for each thumbnail.
thumbHeight	60	Height for each thumbnail.
autoPlay	false	Automatically play slideshow on load
slideInterval	10	time between slideshow shows next image in seconds
imageDefaultLink	none,self	none: no link on the image self: link to original image use <filename href="http://www.google.com">img01.jpg</filename> to link image to any other url.
thumbSpace	5	Space between thumbnails

To load other xml file than default gallery.xml use extra parameter when embeding flash.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7" width="600" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="veppa_photo_album2.swf?xml=path/to/custom.xml" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="veppa_photo_album2.swf?xml=path/to/custom.xml" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="400"></embed>
</object>

To make transparent background use wmode=transparent parameter:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7" width="600" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="veppa_photo_album2.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed src="veppa_photo_album2.swf" width="600" height="400" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed>
</object>

Important: if you are using javascript to activate flash, like one that comes with dreamweaver AC_RunActiveContent.js, then you need to add extra variables there as well.

AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7', 'width', '600', 'height', '400', 'src', 'veppa_photo_album2?xml=gallery_x.xml', 'quality', 'high', 'pluginspage', 'http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash', 'wmode', 'transparent', 'movie', 'veppa_photo_album2?xml=gallery_x.xml' );

License

Free Flash Photo Album 2 by Vepa Halliyev is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.