3D Carousel Menu FX
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- - Fully functional, no limitations
- - Easy to install on any website without Flash
- - XML configurable
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) - - customizable AS2+AS3 components for new or current Adobe Flash projects
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Non-Flash users:
To install this component for FREE in your website read the step by step instructions
Flash users:
If you want to use this component in a new or existing Flash project, read the Flash installation details
How to install this Carousel on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the carousel.zip archive and put all the files from this archive 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:
<backgroundColor value="0" />
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 archive, 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 commercial archive
Instructions on how to use the Carousel component in Flash you will find here.
How to install this Carousel 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 instalation 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.
Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
1. Download or purchase the 3D Carousel Menu FX Flash component
2. Create a new folder inside your /wp-content/ directory called flashxml/3d-carousel-menu-fx and copy the content of the archive to this folder
3. Install the plugin or upload the 3d-carousel-menu-fx folder along with all its files to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4. Activate the plugin from the Plugins tab in WordPress Dashboard
5. Go to 3D Carousel Menu FX from the Settings tab and update the path in case you used a different one
6. In the post editor use the following tag to embed the 3D Carousel Menu FX: [3d-carousel-menu-fx][/3d-carousel-menu-fx]. You could also add <?php carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code(); ?> in the PHP file of your theme
7. Customize your 3D Carousel Menu FX using the Live Demo above. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/carouselmenufx/settings.xml
8. To use your own images, upload them to the flashxml/carouselmenufx/images folder and update the flashxml/carouselmenufx/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. From the post editor, use the following code: [3d-carousel-menu-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/3d-carousel-menu-fx]. From the PHP files of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call. If you use a separate set of images, don't forget to create a new XML file for that and update the value in the settings file.
No Flash support text
To support visitors without Adobe Flash, you can provide alternative textual content. From the post editor, add the text between [3d-carousel-menu-fx] and [/3d-carousel-menu-fx]. From the PHP files of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the carouselmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call.
If you have PHP4
To make it work if you're using PHP4, add the following code [3d-carousel-menu-fx width="600" height="300"][/3d-carousel-menu-fx] in the post editor. From the PHP files 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.
Make sure your Joomla version is 1.5 and that your hosting provider is using PHP5.
Joomla Module
1. Download or purchase the component
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla directory called flashxml/carouselmenufx/
3. Unzip the archive and copy the contents to flashxml/carouselmenufx/ directory
4. Download the Joomla Module and install it
5. If you used a different folder than flashxml/carouselmenufx/, update the Path parameter
6. Visit the live demo from the top of this page and customize your settings
Joomla Plugin
1. Download or purchase the component
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla directory called flashxml/carouselmenufx/
3. Unzip the archive and copy the contents to flashxml/carouselmenufx/ directory
4. Download the Joomla Plugin and install it
5. If you used a different folder than flashxml/carouselmenufx/, update the Path parameter
6. Use {carouselmenufx}{/carouselmenufx} where you want the component to show up in your articles
7. Visit the live demo from the top of this page and customize your settings
8. 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 articles
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the commercial archive.
Once you will do that, simply use the SWF file from the commercial archive to overwrite the SWF file from the flashxml/carouselmenufx/ folder.
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Hi, i manage to combine 3D Carousel Menu FX, shadowbox and drupal, the file images.xml is created dynamically with a drupal view.
¿Is there a way to put the tooltip text as an attributte on the <photo>?
Like: <photo image=“http://mysite.com/image.jpg” url=“javascript:openShadowbox(‘http://mysite.com/myvideo.flv’, ‘flv’, ‘My shadowbox title’)” target=”_self”/ tooltip=“My 3d carousel menu tooltip” >
My site is http://bit.ly/bqnGuP , my xml http://bit.ly/ctkVtO
Thanks
Great product! am about to purchase it, its worth it. Have to ask one thing though, please take a look. It seems that that gallery is not displaying. I added a nineth picture, and it was working but I noticed now it is not. Is there any reason for it? thank you, still gonna purchase it now :D
Hello, If this is an entry in the images.xml file, can you give an example of how to change the URL to another web address? Thanks!
<photo image=“images/02.jpg” bigimage=“images/big/02.jpg” url=“javascript:GroupDelegate(‘img2’)” target=”_self” lightboxInfo=“Optional description for image 2”><![CDATA[It’s FREE]]></photo>
Hello,
In order to have links on the photos, you need to edit that code like this:
url=“http://www.yourDomain.com/yourPath.html” .
Also, edit the “target” attribute however you like : if you would like to open the page in a new tab, target=”_blank”; if you would like to open in the same tab target=”_self”.
An update – messed around with the settings some more and it looks great now. Thanks so much!
Hi, thanks for taking a look, it’s www.medicalmarijuanaforall.com
Hi, I have the carousel installed and it is working well. The only thing is that there 200-300px gap between the FlashXML logo and the first image. I’d like to get rid of the extra white space – it’s way too much. Have tried working with the css but none of those settings have any effect. Thanks for your help.
Hello,
Please give us a link to your website and we will look into the problem.
Hi, I’m using 3D Carousel component in a movie clip and I want to click on an image to go to a gallery (image gallery component) in the same movie clip. You can change this component?
Hi,
You can catch this 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);
}
This way you’ll be able to find out when a image is clicked (and also its id).
Using this ID you can change between your galleries.
Okay so I got it to work but I cannot get the images to come up. I now just have the spinning circles with no photos. when i attempt to change the path to my photos i lose the carousel completely.
Hello,
Please send us a link to your website and we will look into the problem.
I purchased the license for this and I cannot get it working for the life of me. I have followed the directions and all i get are the buttons no pictures or carousel
Hi,
i have a problem with the free Version of 3D Carousel Menu FX.
In my images.xml are four images and every things works fine.
Now i want to remove one image.
The problem is now, that the three images displayed behind the center image.
How i can fix these issue?
Hi,
I’m sorry but there seems to be a problem when 4 or 8 images are used in this component. We’re working of fixing this issue. Please use a different number of images until then.