Image Grid FX
Features
- unlimited number of rows and columns
- option to go to an URL when clicking an image or to enlarge the image
- resizable to the extent of 1680 x 1050 pixels
- CSS formatted text in both tooltip and description
- unlimited number of images (JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP supported)
- external PNG (changeable) for next/previous arrows
- configurable images border and spacing
- enlarging effects
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- - Fully functional, no limitations
- - Easy to install on any website without Flash
- - XML configurable
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PAID ARCHIVE
- - Label FREE (
) - - customizable AS3 components for new or current Adobe Flash projects
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- FREE INSTALL
- FLASH INSTALL
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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 Image Grid on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the image-grid.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("ImageGrid.swf", "ImageGridDiv", "600", "300", "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="ImageGridDiv"></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 galleryWidth and galleryHeight (which you will set below).
Now you will have to define the properties of your Image Grid.
You can do that by editing the settings.xml file, or much simpler, set your values on the Live Demo above and press Generate button, then select all (Ctrl+A) and copy-paste over the existing content of settings.xml file.
If you intend to have more than one Image Grid on the same page, for the same ImageGrid.swf file you’ll need to have different settings. Please read here how publish a component twice on the same page.
All is left to do is to put your own images, add the text, 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, by default is images.xml) and define in each row the image path, the text in CDATA section, and optionally (if 'maximize' property is false): the url to go to when clicking the image, the target (_self for the same browser window, or _blank for a new browser window).
You can have as many images as you like. To add a new image add a new row in the XML file.
The order of the images is given by the order of the rows in the images.xml file.
Here's how an XML entry (corresponding to an image) should look:
<photo image="images/01.jpg" bigimage="images/01.jpg" url="http://www.flashxml.net" target="_blank" lightboxinfo = "Description for first image 1"><![CDATA[
<tooltip>Hello</tooltip>
<description>Description text</description>]]></photo>
ImageGrid.swf embeds only the Verdana font. To be able to embed any other font you'll need the Image Grid Flash component. As an alternative you can use non-embedded fonts.
To add Lightbox functionality (showing a bigger image and a description when clicking on an image) please read this article.
If you'll want to use the Image Grid in Flash projects (FLA files), the Image Grid is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the commercial archive
Instructions on how to use the Image Grid component in Flash you will find here.
To be able to remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you will need to purchase the commercial archive
Below you will see instructions on how to install and use the Image Grid Component in Flash (available for Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).
For basic instructions on how to integrate the Image Grid SWF file into HTML/PHP, click here.
You can watch an installation video tutorial of a very similar component in Flash (3D Carousel Menu FX) by clicking here.
In this video you will see:
- how to create an instance of the component on the stage: from the Components panel (Ctrl+F7) drag & drop the 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 in the text input
- how to access the properties of the component (read or modify) during different moments of your Flash application
Any property of the Component could be accessed that way. The names of the properties are identical with the ones from the settings.xml file.
The properties of the component can be of any of the three types: Number, String, Boolean. We assume it’s intuitive of which type each property is.
Warning! Setting the parameters of the 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)
For now, this component doesn't dispatch events, but stay tuned for an update.
Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
1. Download or purchase the Image Grid FX Flash component
2. Create a new folder inside your /wp-content/ directory called flashxml/image-grid-fx and copy the content of the archive to this folder
3. Install the plugin or upload the image-grid-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 Image Grid 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 Image Grid FX: [image-grid-fx][/image-grid-fx]. You could also add <?php Fimagegridfx_echo_embed_code(); ?> in the PHP file of your theme
7. Customize your Image Grid FX using the Live Demo above. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/image-grid-fx/settings.xml
8. To use your own images, upload them to the flashxml/image-grid-fx/images folder and update the flashxml/image-grid-fx/images.xml file accordingly
Additional settings file
To embed the Image Grid 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: [image-grid-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/image-grid-fx]. From the PHP files of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the imagegridfx_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 [image-grid-fx] and [/image-grid-fx]. From the PHP files of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the imagegridfx_echo_embed_code() function call.
If you have PHP4
To make it work if you're using PHP4, add the following code [image-grid-fx width="600" height="300"][/image-grid-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 imagegridfx_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/imagegridfx/
3. Unzip the archive and copy the contents to flashxml/imagegridfx/ directory
4. Download the Joomla Module and install it
5. If you used a different folder than flashxml/imagegridfx/, 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/imagegridfx/
3. Unzip the archive and copy the contents to flashxml/imagegridfx/ directory
4. Download the Joomla Plugin and install it
5. If you used a different folder than flashxml/imagegridfx/, update the Path parameter
6. Use {imagegridfx}{/imagegridfx} 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: {imagegridfx settings="settings2.xml"}{/imagegridfx} 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/imagegridfx/ folder.
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For it is strange because the plug is already activated.
Infatti è strano perchè il plugin è già attivato.
Sorry but the site was blocked. The site is empty there is only a test page for installing the component. The others I got them installed and I are fine but I have deleted this but I did not see anything. We laugh again the site link and let me know. Thanks! http://www.bigdiamonds.it/
Hi,
It looks like you didn’t activated the Image Grid plugin. Please make sure you have.
This is the site link where I tried the component image grid FX. I would understand why I do not see anything. http://www.bigdiamonds.it
Hi,
The link you gave us requires a password to access. Please send to support[at]flashxml.net the login details so we can investigate it properly.
I installed the image grid FX as I did the others who’ve already taken, but this does not work. I do not see anything on the page. What can be?
Hello,
Please give us a link to your website and we will look into the problem.
Hi,
I purchased this flash gallery about 1-2 months ago. Back then it was named Pyramid Gallery and not Image Grid.
I recently downloaded the new plugin, because the earlier downloaded version did never work properly. But now (with the actual version) I’m missing a very important feature: I’m not anymore able to see the images in a full screen mode when klicking on them.
Did this really disappear or do I have wrong settings??? (Because the fullscreen option, was one of the main reasons why I bought this particular plugin)
Thanks
Thabiso
Hello,
In order for lightbox to work (the feature that you described) you need to make sure that , in the settings.xml file, the “useLightbox” attribute is set to “true” and the “maximize” attribute is set to “false”.
Also, please make sure that you are testing on a server (either from the internet or local).
Hi! If I wish to use different pictures for small and big a photo sees only any one photos. In images.xml “<photo image=“gallery/1.jpg” bigimage=“gallery/1_1.jpg” target=”_blank” />” – not work.
Hello,
Please send us a link to your website and we will look into the problem.
How do i change the link on each pictures?
Hello,
You need to open the images.xml file and edit the CDATA attribute, more specifically this one : <a href=“http://www.flashxml.net”>demo link</a>. Change the address there to what you want, and the “demo link” to whatever text you want.
If you’re having any trouble with and it seems it doesn’t want to work, follow this tutorial.
Same error… occurs DURING activation, so nothing else can be accomplished. I downloaded, unzipped, copied the folder, tried to activate, got this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/content/t/l/c/tlcfotog/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/pyramid-gallery-fx/pyramid-gallery-fx.php on line 26
I uninstalled, deleted, reinstalled, same error. Can’t get past step 2 in your instructions.
What now?
Hi,
Please download the plugin from here and follow the instructions from here.
I’m getting this error trying to activate the plugin:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/content/t/l/c/tlcfotog/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/pyramid-gallery-fx/pyramid-gallery-fx.php on line 26
What’s next?
Hi,
Please redownload the plugin and follow the install instructions carefully.