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1. a company, even if the application in which this product will be included does not directly generate income
2. an individual, when the application in which this product will be included generates income in any form (i.e. a website with paid advertising)

** An application can be a website, a software, an electronic document such as a PowerPoint presentation or an e-book, a printed document, a video production

There is no restriction on the number of copies of this product within the same application. For example, with one Commercial License you can include this product in all the pages of your website. But you will need two Commercial Licenses for two different commercial websites.

If you want to use this product in multiple commercial applications owned by:
1. you or your company - you must purchase a Commercial License for each different application, or you can purchase the Special License
2. your clients - you must purchase a Commercial License for each different application. The Special License does not apply in this case. Contact us if you want to purchase an Extended License which will allow you to use this product in an unlimited number of applications owned by your clients.

WARNING !

You are not allowed to include this product in applications that are for sale.

You are not allowed to directly or indirectly license, sub-license, distribute, redistribute, sell or resell this product.

Special License(multiple use) details

The "Special License (multiple use)" grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to make use of this product in an unlimited number of commercial and non-commercial websites (or applications*) owned by you OR your company.

This Special License does not apply if you want to use this product in multiple commercial applications owned by your clients. In this case you must purchase a suitable license (Personal or Commercial) for each different application. Contact us if you want to purchase an Extended License which will allow you to use this product in an unlimited number of applications owned by your clients.

* An application can be a website, a software, an electronic document such as a PowerPoint presentation or an e-book, a printed document, a video production

WARNING !

You are not allowed to include this product in applications that are for sale.

You are not allowed to directly or indirectly license, sub-license, distribute, redistribute, sell or resell this product.

Features

- resizable to the extent of 1680 x 1050 pixels
- rotation in any angle
- optional centered image
- customizable images width & height
- all possible rotations behaviors & speeds
- multiple roll over effects
- HTML formatted tooltip
- optional image frames & reflection

Installation instructions for:

How to install this 3D Carousel Menu on your website

Step 1. SWF embedding

Download the carousel.zip package and put all the files from this package into the same folder with the HTML file in which you want the component to be embedded.

You should know first of all that the SWF file is the one that actually represents the component, while the other files (settings.xml, images.xml and JPGs in the images folder) are the assets that the SWF file uses.
A short explanation on how SWFs and XMLs interacts you will find here.

Open your HTML file with a text editor and insert somewhere between the <head> </head> tags the following lines:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.scale = "noscale";
params.salign = "tl";
params.wmode = "transparent";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("carousel.swf", "CarouselDiv", "600", "400", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>

For a fast and easy publishing, the best thing to do is to have the SWF file, the HTML file which embeds the SWF, the swfobject.js file, and the assets that the SWF uses (XMLs, JPGs folder) in the same folder.
If that is not possible, please read this detailed article on how to specify the paths correctly.

The above code itself isn’t enough to publish the SWF file on your webpage. You just need to add a div somewhere in the body section of your page (between the <body> </body> tags of your HTML file).
So, in a specific location of your HTML body section insert this div:

<div id="CarouselDiv"></div>

Step 2. Customization

You’ll be able to define a maximum size of 1680 in width and 1050 in height in the 3rd and 4th arguments of the swfobject.embedSWF() function above. Usually the same values as for carouselWidth and carouselHeight (which you will set below).

Now you will have to define the properties of your Carousel.

You can do that in two ways:
1. By editing the settings.xml file, or much simpler, set your values on the Live Demo above and press Generate settings.xml button, then select all (Ctrl+A) and copy-paste over the existing content of settings.xml file.

2. By using FlashVars. Right after this line:

var flashvars = {};

insert the values you desire for each property, like this:

flashvars.imagesXML = "images.xml";
flashvars.rotationAngle = "20";
flashvars.showCenteredImage = "true";

Note that the properties written through FlashVars will override those written in the settings.xml file.

If you intend to have multiple carousels on the same page, for the same carousel.swf file you’ll need to have different settings.

As a warning, setting useBlur to true and a high value to blurIntensity could considerable increase the CPU usage.

For a transparent background set in settings.xml file:

or through FlashVars:

flashvars.backgroundColor = "0";

All is left to do is to put your own images, add the tooltip text and add the behavior for when clicking each image. All these through the images XML file. Open the images.xml file (or whichever file you specified as the imagesXML property in the settings.xml file) and define in each row the image path, the URL to go to when clicking the image, the target (_self for the same browser window, or _blank for a new browser window), and the tooltip text.
You can have as many images as you like. To add a new image add a new row in the XML file.

The Lightbox functionality (showing a bigger image and a description when clicking on an image) is provided too in the carousel.zip package, specifically in the index-with-lightbox-test-on-http-server.html file.

carousel.swf has a total size of 50 KB and embeds only the Verdana font. To be able to embed any other font you’ll need the Carousel Flash component.

If you’ll want to use the Carousel in Flash projects (FLA files), the Carousel is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the paid package

Instructions on how to use the Carousel component in Flash you will find here.

Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.

1. There are two files to download:

a. WordPress Plugin that you have to install and activate

b. Free package

2. Create a new folder inside your wp-content folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called 3d-carousel-menu-fx and copy the content of the free package there

3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, go to 3D Carousel Menu FX from the Settings tab from your WordPress Dashboard and update the path accordingly

4. Add [3d-carousel-menu-fx][/3d-carousel-menu-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page.

5. If you want to make the 3D Carousel Menu FX part of your theme, edit the template files and add <?php carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code(); ?> where you want it to show up

6. Customize your 3D Carousel Menu FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite wp-content/flashxml/3d-carousel-menu-fx/settings.xml

7. To use your own images, upload them to wp-content/flashxml/3d-carousel-menu-fx/images and update the wp-content/flashxml/3d-carousel-menu-fx/images.xml file accordingly

Additional settings file

To embed the 3D Carousel Menu FX more than once, you will need another settings file and (probably) another set of images. Let's assume your new file is called settings2.xml. Add [3d-carousel-menu-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/3d-carousel-menu-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code("settings2.xml"); ?>).

No Flash support text

To support visitors without Adobe Flash Player, you can provide alternative content by adding the text between [3d-carousel-menu-fx] and [/3d-carousel-menu-fx]. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code("","Alternative content"); ?>).

If you have PHP4

To make it work with PHP4, add [3d-carousel-menu-fx width="600" height="300"][/3d-carousel-menu-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the width and height as the third and fourth argument of the carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 600 and 300 are just examples.

Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label

To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package. Once you'll do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the wp-content/flashxml/3d-carousel-menu-fx/ folder.

Make sure your Joomla version is 1.5 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.

Joomla Module Instructions:

1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):

a. Joomla Module that you have to install and enable

b. Free package

2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called carouselmenufx and copy the content of the free package there

3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly

4. Customize your 3D Carousel Menu FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/carouselmenufx/settings.xml

Joomla Plugin Instructions:

1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):

a. Joomla Plugin that you have to install and enable

b. Free package

2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called carouselmenufx and copy the content of the free package there

3. If you copied the free package to a location different from the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly

4. Add {carouselmenufx}{/carouselmenufx} where you want the Flash to show up in your article

5. Customize your 3D Carousel Menu FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/carouselmenufx/settings.xml

6. The default name for the settings file is settings.xml, but if you want to use another file (for example settings2.xml), specify the name like this: {carouselmenufx settings="settings2.xml"}{/carouselmenufx} where you want the component to show up in your article

7. In some cases the width and height will not be read from the settings.xml file but you can specify them like this: {carouselmenufx width="400" height="300"}{/carouselmenufx}. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 400 and 300 are just examples.

Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package.
Once you will do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the flashxml/carouselmenufx/ folder.

How to install this 3D Carousel Menu in a new or existing Adobe Flash project

Below you will see instructions on how to install and use the 3D Carousel Component (commercial package) in Flash (available for Flash 8, Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).

For basic instructions on how to integrate the Carousel’s SWF file into HTML/PHP, click here.

You can watch an installation video tutorial of the component in Flash by clicking here.

In this video you will also see:
- how to create an instance of the Carousel on the stage: from the Components panel (Ctrl+F7) drag & drop the Carousel component on the stage
- how to give a name to that instance for further use in ActionScript: click on the component instance on the stage and from the Properties panel (Ctrl+F3) enter a name (let’s say Carousel) in the text input
- how to access the properties of the Carousel (read or modify) during different moments of your Flash application

Any of the 50 properties of the Carousel could be accessed that way. The names of the properties are identical with the ones you see on the Live Demo.

For example, at any point during your Flash movie you can set:

Carousel.perspective = 30;
Carousel.stopOnRollOver = true;
Carousel.rollOverBehavior = "max";

or you can simply read the values:

var b1:Boolean = Carousel.useReflection;
var s1:String = Carousel.inverseRotation;
var n1:Number = Carousel.stoppingSpeed;

The properties of the Carousel can be of any of the three types: Number, String, Boolean. I assume it’s intuitive of which type each property is, and I will not make a list.

Warning! Setting the parameters of the Carousel component in the Component Inspector window (Shift+F7) and in the same time having a settings.xml file populated with different values for each property, the properties from the settings.xml file will have priority (meaning that a parameter set in the Component Inspector will be ignored if that parameter is also defined in the XML file)

Now maybe the most useful information consists in the events the Carousel is dispatching, and instructions on how to catch these events.

So when the user clicks on an image, the Carousel dispatches:
- thumbPressed (when the mouse was pressed)
- thumbReleased (when the mouse was released)
Along with these events, the id of the thumb pressed or released is being dispatched.
Usually you will use just one of these two, personally I like to use thumbReleased.

Other events:
- rollOverThumb
- rollOutThumb
- thumbLoaded
- frontThumb
(all these three come too with the id of the thumb being rolled over / rolled out / loaded / frontmost)
- allThumbsLoaded

Note: the order of the ids is given by the order of the images in the images.xml file.

Here is an example on how to catch these events:
in AS2:

var event1:Object = new Object();
Carousel.addEventListener("thumbPressed", event1);
event1.thumbPressed = function (obj:Object) {
trace (obj.id);
}

in AS3:

addEventListener("thumbPressed", thumbPressed,true);
function thumbPressed(event:Event):void
{
trace("thumbPressed " + Carousel.id);
}

If you’ll catch the events of the Carousel and create different behaviors for clicking the thumbs, you may want to de-activate the option of going to a specific URL address in the images.xml file. To do that, simply delete the url or target attributes in the images.xml file.

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luis

Posted 31 Days Ago

I am having troubles with the pictures opening up in the same flash, When I click on the thumbnail it opens up a new page. The target is set to _self. I want it to open up like you have it on your demo on this page. When you click on pic it opens up in flash.

Hi,

For this effect you have to install Lightbox. Here are the steps to add it to your flash.

ariam

Posted 31 Days Ago

Good morning, impossible to show the .swf in TAG [3d-carousel-menu-fx]... [/3d-carousel-menu-fx] wordpress 3.0 and php 5 are installed on my waiter. Etre can I lack a plugin of reading swf I am lost thanks for your answer

Hi,

There are two zip files you have to download. The content of the archive/zip file from step 1 has to be copied in the specified location from step 2. The plugin itself can be downloaded from step 3 and has to be installed into your wordpress.

Riccardo

Posted 31 Days Ago

Hi,
I use wordpress so I inserted the [3d-carousel-fx] tag inside the page. There’s no way to edit the HTML container.
I tried to include the code between the []...[/] tags but the component doesn’t even appear.
Could you please could be more explicit in your answer? Besides, it doesn’t seem to be the only one that has this problem, reading posts around the blog…
Thanks

Riccardo

Hi,

Give us the link to your website and we will check it.

Edgard

Posted 1 Month Ago

como faiz pra mudar a foto? queria colocar musica. como na pergunta q fiz abaixo, o link para as imagens seria: www.brasilexpo.com.br

Hi,

Sorry to announce you, but you need to use English language.

Thank you.

Edgard

Posted 1 Month Ago

eu tenho a mesma duvida acima. colocar link em cada imagem. mais não intendi como faze-lo. como open the images.xml file?
em que lugar? pode ensinar um passo a passo?

Riccardo

Posted 1 Month Ago

Hello,
I installed 3D-carousel on wordpress 3.01 but, when clicking images, it doesn’t open Lightscribe window and does nothing. It doesn’t work also with the standard installation, so with samples files: i installed as suggested. The carousel works but lightdscribe doesn’t.
I disabled also all other plugins and set the standard theme, with no result.
What’s wrong?
Thanks
Riccardo

Hi,

You have to follow carefully the steps from this tutorial. Make sure you use the absolute path for all the files and assets.

subsee

Posted 1 Month Ago

Just installed the 3D Carousel Menu FX joomla module but it is not working, says it has to be activated on install instructions how is this done?

Hi,

You have to enable it.

Shaz

Posted 1 Month Ago

Hi,

Think I have fixed it.. other stylesheets loaded over the top of the lightbox.css so I moved it to load last.
It now works… thanks

Shaz

Posted 1 Month Ago

Tried changing up the path… it is currently loading but am still getting the error when I click the images.. invisible links are there… don’t know what else can be wrong.. if anything..

nuno

Posted 1 Month Ago

I need to set ‘allowscriptaccess’ value=‘always’ for embeding the carousel in my project, how do I go about that? I am not sure where to set that, I would really appreciate if you could advise.

Many thanks

Hi,

You’ll need to write something like this in the HTML file that embeds the SWF file:

params.allowscriptaccess = "always"

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