Comments on: Flash-based galleries

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:41:33 +0000

Count me as one who doesn’t like Flash in any form including this one!

By: Caroline :)

Caroline :) — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:05:06 +0000

oops sorry, i’m reading your post again and realizing that porta and picasa are programs that incorporate simpleviewer, and that you might not have used porta to build your sample gallery. will look into simpleviewer now to see if there are more customizable options there …

By: Caroline :)

Caroline :) — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:51:03 +0000

eric, how do you feel about porta renaming all the files? i’ve been playing around with it, and i guess that’s the only thing that kinda bugs me, since sometimes people ask me for the original file, and it’s easier for me to find if i know the original file name. (or perhaps i haven’t found the option to switch off renaming?)

By: Caroline :)

Caroline :) — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:36:18 +0000

i really like how you can put the mouse cursor over the entire right half of the pic to advance to the next pic, and the entire left half of the pic to see the previous pic. those flashing arrows at the corners look nifty too.

By: syndromes

syndromes — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:11:59 +0000

Flash is the debil! But then I dislike most things that require a plugin. But then again I use shutterbook which is a flash based photo gallery. I'm a walking contradiction.

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By: echeng

echeng — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:42:25 +0000

Lars - thanks for the CS2 flash gallery link. I’ll give it a try!

Eric - most Flash-based galleries these days read images and metadata from the filesystem. Otherwise, there is no way I’d use flash. SimpleViewer has an online-admin tool that lets you crank out XML dynamically for use with the app…

By: the all-powerful, etc, eric

the all-powerful, etc, eric — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:03:29 +0000

Flash the application is eviiil. I prefer not to rip my eyeballs from their sockets and so I rather fancy Laszlo. It uses the flash runtime as its visual engine, but your app is built declaratively in XML and procedurally in ECMAscript. It gives you the view framework I'd want to build in Flash anyway before doing anything else, and so it saved me about 3 months of eyeball-lessness. Lots of nifty web services, data-view-binding, and XML parsing built-in, too.

Not sure about search engine indexing, but you can pass the Laszlo app arguments via the url query. It could also, of course, be a shell gallery that reads your jpegs and metadata from the filesystem. If you have the server resources, you can actually serve dynamic Laszlo apps built on-the-fly with php ... if such a thing would ever be necessary, I dunno.

Anyway, I wike it.

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:59:05 +0000

Hi Eric, did you already have a look at the Adobe PS CS2 flash gallery. You can download them at:http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2961
and they come with the flash source.