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Create a Photo Gallery
Author: lookaa | Email
Website : www.flash-slide-show.com
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2. Customizing the Photo Gallery Code
Now here comes the relatively simple part of customizing the code to work with your own pictures to make your photo gallery something more meaningful than 10 pictures of wildlife I found over at the National Geographic site. Make sure your Actions dialog box is displayed with the code you pasted and read on!
More than likely, you have your images stored in a certain location on your Web site or on your hard drive that is different from where your Flash animation is stored.
Find the first line of code (it is a variable actually) that says: this.pathToPics. Modify the path set by the aforementioned variable to the folder containing your images. For example, in the version of the code in the tutorial, the images are stored in the animation folder. Therefore, the variables pathToPics equals "animation/". If your images are stored in the SAME directory as your animation, simply make pathToPics equal "" as in:
this.pathToPics = "animation/";
Other examples of how you can modify the code include:
this.pathToPics = "../animation/";
this.pathToPics = "http://www.domainname.com/pics/";
Now, you get the chance to specify the file name for the images that will be used! Find the line that says this.pArray. Replace all the image names I have written with the images that you will use instead. If you have more images than spaces provided, simply add more image names by adding a comma with the image name in quotation marks.
The code for just two images would be:
this.pArray = ["flash.jpg", "windows.jpg"];
Again, you can have as many or as few images in the photo gallery. The code that sbeener wrote is intelligent enough to count the number of images you specify in the pArray variable and customize the gallery accordingly.
You are done with customizing the code and this tutorial (for the second time). Preview the animation and see how it works. If you are good with ActionScript, you can tweak the code with a few modifications of your own.
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