dynamic image loading

[KJ]

Hi, my name is Kanan. Last week I went to an area called Boundary
Waters (it's is Canada). I went with my Boy Scout troop. I own a
digital camera, and over the 5 days and 54 miles of canoeing I took 260
pictures. I wanted to present the pictures to the troop using Flash and
loaded on a CD-R. I am having big problems with doing this because I
don't want to paste each image that I loaded into an instance. If I
did, the Action Script programing would be easy. Or I could load each
image into a frame of a Movie clip and just go to the next frame or back
one frame to view the set of pictures. Is there any way to easily get
around the fact the they are only loading as import images and
manipulate them like they were instances?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kanan

[Navneet Behal]

Ha.. the zip file is here:

http://www.productbeta.com/slideshow/slide_show.zip

Good Luck
Navneet

[Navneet Behal]

Kanan,

I made a slideshow presentation with this idea once to demonstrate the power of
Generator to a few clients. That file is still around and I have zipped it and
uploaded it onto my server. You can download it and check it out.

Note: The actionscript and method is very advanced and you need PHP, Generator
and some really good understanding of Flash to be able to break it down. I have
a read me file in there to help you out, but if you have any questions, post
them in this forum and I'll do my best to help you out.

Essenitally, the idea is to drop png or jpg files into a folder and Flash
dynamically loads them, after calling a PHP script. That scripts job is execute
Generator and convert bitmaps to swfs before returing a filelist to Flash for
loading.

Good Luck
Navneet

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[John Dowdell]

There's an article on this subject in the Macromedia Flash Technotes,
searchable with term "dynamic image".

jd

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[KJ]

Wow, that is quite impressive.

I am not very good at flash and since I'm going to be putting this onto
a carom. Is there any way to just display the images? I already have
the locations loaded into an array. You said something about conversion
the images to swf format can I do a batch conversion?

Thanks again,
Kanan

[Navneet Behal]

Okay, here are your options.

If you want to convert a bunch of jpgs/pngs into swf format, you can either use
Fireworks 4.0 to batch process files. Note: Fireworks does not have an inbuilt
swf batch processor so you need to get one. Good for us that genius developers
are willing to share their work for free. Get it here:

http://www.massimocorner.com/fw/commands/patrick/batch_export_swf.zip

You can then batch process a bunch of bitmaps to swf format. The reason why
Fireworks does not have an inbuilt batch processor to make swfs is because
Macromedia wants to sell their offline generator to poor people for $1000.00
It's such a sleazy company man..

Now, this might be good enough for a lot of people who simply need a production
workhorse to make swf's for a job. This might be good enough for your vacation
project as well... but if you need to make a scenario where you simply drop
images into a folder on your server and the server takes care of adding it to
Flash, on the fly, in real-time, then you can refer to my source files.

If you are not very advanced in Flash, I would recommend that you be a little
patient and study some good books, like Actionscript: the definitive guide by
Colin Moock and understand how Flash thinks and behaves. Keep my file and one
day, soon, it will make sense to you.

My method uses swift-generator, and it is available for free at
www.swift-tools.com

Macromedia makes a similar product called generator which is around $30000 Once
again, a corporation ripping off other corporations :) There is nothing that
generator does, that cannot be done either directly from Flash or by deploying
Swift-Generator. Oliver Debbon, the creator of Swift-Generator asks to put his
logo if you use generator or just pay him a $100 bucks for his efforts. Its only
fair and very decent price.

All in all, I didn't expect you to break down the file right away, but it does
open up a door of opportunity to what you can do with this method. It will help
you some day soon.

Good Luck
Navneet

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