Photo Gallery FX

Published on Sep. 14th 2010
16.721 downloads

Features

Version 1.0.7.8127 - 30.01.2012 (view changelog)

- completely customizable gallery which uses the Image Scroller FX component, keeping the same multiple configurable properties of the menu and adding many gallery properties, image transitions and text effects
- you can put the Image Scroller on any position
- you can customize your XML list of image transitions using the Image Transitions Generator
- you can customize your XML list of text effects using the Text Effects Generator
- customize all your properties in the full screen configuration panel and hit "generate settings XMLs" button

Here are some specific properties of the image scroller navigation:
- horizontal or vertical alignment
- customizable thumbs width and height
- various roll over behaviors
- thumbs spacing
- optional auto scrolling
- multiple scrolling and speed properties
- HTML/CSS formatted tooltip
- background and shade customizable properties

Installation instructions for:

Download the photo-gallery.zip package and put all the files from this package into the same folder with the HTML file in which you want the product to be added. If you put all the files in a different folder, read this article to learn how to specify the paths correctly.

You should know that the SWF file is the one that actually represents the product, while the other files from the downloaded package are the assets that the SWF file uses. A short explanation on how SWFs and XMLs interacts can be found here.

Open your HTML file with a text editor and insert in the HEAD section of your page (between the <head> and </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";
params.allowScriptAccess = "always";
params.allowFullScreen = "true";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("PhotoGalleryFX.swf", "DivPhotoGalleryFX", "600", "400", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>

The above code isn't enough to publish the product on your page. You also need to add in the BODY section of your page (between the <body> and </body> tags), where you want the product to be displayed, the following line:

<div id="DivPhotoGalleryFX"></div>

To use the gallery in fullscreen mode you can use the index.html file provided in the package.

You can customize the Photo Gallery FX using the Live Demo above and then downloading the photo-gallery.zip package with the changes you made or you can edit the settings.xml file included in the package.

To use your own images, edit the big.xml(responsible for the bigger images) and the thumbs.xml(responsible for the smaller images) files with a text editor 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 text between CDATA tags.

Here's an example to add images for big.xml:

<photo image="images/big/101.jpg" url="http://www.flashxml.net"><![CDATA[<head>Hello</head><body>world</body>]]></photo>

Here's an example to add videos for big.xml:

<video media="video/101.flv" image="video/101.jpg" skin="assets/skins/videoSkin1.xml" backColor="0x000000" backAlpha="1" autoplay="false"></video>

Here's an example for thumbs.xml (NOTE: you can't add url for thumbs images):

<photo image="images/thumbs/101.jpg"><![CDATA[Hello]]></photo>

You can have as many images as you like. To add a new image, add a new row in the XML files.

For the most common questions you have please go to our FAQ page.

If you want to use the Photo Gallery FX in Flash projects (FLA files), then it is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the paid package.

Instructions on how to use the Photo Gallery FX component in Flash can be found here.

To be able to remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you will need to purchase the paid package.

You can see an example on how to add a product in your Wordpress article/page here and how to add it in your theme or as a widget 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 photo-gallery-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 Photo Gallery FX from the Settings tab in your WordPress Dashboard and update the path accordingly

4. Add [photo-gallery-fx width="600" height="400"][/photo-gallery-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page, but don't forget to replace 600 and 400 with your own width and height values

5. If you want to make the Photo Gallery FX part of your theme, edit the template files and add <?php fxphotogallery_echo_embed_code(600, 400); ?> where you want it to show up

6. Customize your Photo Gallery FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite wp-content/flashxml/photo-gallery-fx/settings.xml, wp-content/flashxml/photo-gallery-fx/ImageScrollerFX/settings.xml and wp-content/flashxml/photo-gallery-fx/holder/settings.xml files accordingly

7. To use your own images, upload them to wp-content/flashxml/photo-gallery-fx/images/ and update the wp-content/flashxml/photo-gallery-fx/images/thumbs.xml and wp-content/flashxml/photo-gallery-fx/images/big.xml files accordingly

 

No Flash support text

To support visitors without Adobe Flash Player, you can provide alternative content by adding the text between [photo-gallery-fx width="600" height="400"] and [/photo-gallery-fx]. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the text as the third argument of the fxphotogallery_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php fxphotogallery_echo_embed_code(600, 400, "Alternative content"); ?>).

 

Additional settings file

To embed the Photo Gallery FX more than once, you will need another set of settings file and (probably) another set of images. Let's assume your new files are called settings2.xml. Add [photo-gallery-fx width="600" height="400" settings="settings2.xml"][/photo-gallery-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 fourth argument of the fxphotogallery_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php fxphotogallery_echo_embed_code(600, 400, "Alternative content", "settings2.xml"); ?>).

 

Change WMODE

By default, the WMODE value is transparent but you can change it to window from the Photo Gallery FX in the Settings tab in your WordPress Dashboard. For widgets, this can be done from the widget's settings. If you want to have a different WMODE value in a specific place, it can be done like this: [photo-gallery-fx width="600" height="400" wmode="window"][/photo-gallery-fx]. If you're using the PHP function, here's an example on: <?php fxphotogallery_echo_embed_code(600, 400, "", "", "window"); ?>.

 

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/photo-gallery-fx/ folder.

1. Download the free package. You need to host all the included files from the package on your own domain because Facebook doesn't allow file hosting.

2. Log in to your Facebook account.

3. Search for the Static HTML: iframe tabs application and select it.

4. Click on Add Static HTML to a page button and you'll be prompted for the page where you want the app to be added.

5. Once added you'll see on the left side menu of your page a new tab with a star icon called Welcome. Click on it to edit it.

6. Add the following HTML embedding code in the text field:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
flashvars.folderPath = "http://www.yourdomain.com/product_folder/";
var params = {};
params.scale = "noscale";
params.salign = "tl";
params.wmode = "transparent";
params.allowScriptAccess = "always";
params.allowFullScreen = "true";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.yourdomain.com/product_folder/ProductName.swf", "DivFlashComponent", "600", "400", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
<div id="DivFlashComponent"></div>

Don't forget to use your own URL for the product's location, name, width and height.

7. Click preview to see how it looks or save changes. The product is now added to the Welcome tab of your page.

8. Optional: To change the tab's name, called by default Welcome, edit your page, go to the Apps tab and click Edit Settings option next to the Static HTML: iframe tabs application to enter the name you want.

9. Optional: To make the tab your default landing tab (first thing your visitors see on your page) edit your page and go to the Manage Permissions tab and change the Default Landing Tab.

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 do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the location where you hosted all the files from the free package.

The module is used for adding the product in one or more pages in a given position (e.g. top, bottom, sidebar) while the plugin is used for adding the product inside a specific article.

You can see an example on how to install a module in your Joomla 1.5 website here, how to install a plugin in your Joomla 1.5 website here, how to install a module in your Joomla 1.6 website here and how to install a plugin in your Joomla 1.6 website here.

Make sure your Joomla version is at least 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 (version 1.5 or version 1.6, 1.7 & 2.5) 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 photogalleryfx 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 Photo Gallery FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/photogalleryfx/settings.xml, flashxml/photogalleryfx/ImageScrollerFX/settings.xml and flashxml/photogalleryfx/holder/settings.xml files accordingly

Note that the Joomla Module can only be used once in your website.

 

Joomla Plugin Instructions:

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

    a. Joomla Plugin (version 1.5 or version 1.6, 1.7 & 2.5) 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 photogalleryfx 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 {photogalleryfx width=400 height=300}{/photogalleryfx} where you want the Flash to show up in your article, but don't forget to replace 400 and 300 with your own width and height values

5. Customize your Photo Gallery FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/photogalleryfx/settings.xml, flashxml/photogalleryfx/ImageScrollerFX/settings.xml and flashxml/photogalleryfx/holder/settings.xml files accordingly

6. The default name for the settings files is settings.xml, but if you want to use another files (for example settings2.xml), specify the name like this: {photogalleryfx width=400 height=300 settings=settings2.xml}{/photogalleryfx} where you want the component to show up in your article

 

Changing WMODE

By default, the WMODE value is transparent but you can change it to window from the module/plugin's parameters. If you want to have a different WMODE value in a specific article, it can be done like this: {photogalleryfx width=400 height=300 wmode=window}{/photogalleryfx}.

 

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/photogalleryfx/ folder.

Below you will find instructions on how to install and use the Photo Gallery FX Component in Flash (available for Flash CS4, CS5 and Flash Player 10 or later).

You can see an example on how to install a product in Flash 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 an 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 does not dispatch events, but stay tuned for an update.

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Comments

jumping-blueberry

Posted 8 days ago

Dear developers,

I used the configuration-panel to create the settings.xml-Files.
In the online-Demo the navigation-bar is in the centered in the bottom.
However when I copy the files to my project, the navigation is in the vertical middle and on the right side… covering the big pictures.
I can’t tell where this might come from.

I can give you more concrete information and links per E-mail.
But please understand that I cannot publish links to uncomplete commercial projects.
(licence will be purchased as soon as everything works)

best regards,

jumping-blueberry

FlashXML Support

Hi,

Please send to support [at] flashxml.net the link to your website or the gallery’s archive and we will check where the problem is.

jumping-blueberry

Posted one month ago

Dear developers,

I downloaded the free version of Photo Gallery FX and am planning to purchase a license as soon as I got everything to work.
My client needs a gallery with various categories.

One solution would be to upload a folder for each category.
But the only files that would need to be different would be big.xml and thumbs.xml

So I thought I’d try creating this folders and files virtually with mod_rewrite!
The xml-files are created by a php-file.
I deleted the original xml-files.

But it doesn’t work as I expected it to.
Is there any solution for my problem?

Thanks in advance
Greetings from Germany

“jumping-blueberry”

FlashXML Support

Hi,

Please read this FAQ article.

Daniele Pezzella

Posted one month ago

Hi guys, i downloaded urban, super ultra cool theme!
1)I wonder if i can use the home with the photogallery fx in the same way i used the purchased image scroller fx in my previous version of the site, that is: i used the image scroller to lauch any kind of content, via the shadowbox and jvplayer (i.e. for videos), with this kind of line in my xml media file:

<photo image=“images-home/reel2010_thumb.png” bigimage = “reel2010_thumb.png” lightboxinfo=”“ url=“javascript:LaunchShadowbox(‘http://www.danielepezzella.it/wp-content/flashxml/video-player-fx/video/demoreel_2010.flv’,‘flv’,‘Demoreel 2010’,‘640’,‘390’)” target=”_self”><![CDATA[My Demoreel 2010]]></photo>

i’d like to use the thumb.xml to configure every thumb as a content laucher as above, but i don’t know how to syntax the parameters correctly with the new image scroller,

2)As an alternative, i still managed to use my old image scroller to do what’s written above, the only thing i can’t do is making my image scrolller having the same size of your
photogalley fx(that is 929×579, even though i put these values in my image scroller settings xml, i still can’t reach the 579pixels and the component loads “thinner”
Any suggestion about these issues? Thank you so much guys. Great theme

FlashXML Support

Hi,

1. Unfortunately you can’t use the PhotoGallery like that. The thumbs.xml only open the big images.You can however have the Shadowbox in the big.xml
2. About this problem, please provide a link to the webpage where you are using the Image scroller.

Actually it’s good you used the Image Scroller since it is the navigation component for the Photo Gallery FX in the first place.

laffal84

Posted 2 months ago

Hello!,

I wanna know if is possible to put a button for come back to my principal page. I mean, I have this gallery in a html page inside of my website, I want some button that allows me to come back to my page (of gallery ad example)...
Thanks

FlashXML Support

Hi,

The Gallery itself doesn’t have a back button, but you could create your own Back button using a GIF that you link back to the main site. Just add it to a hovering DIV somewhere on the Gallery page and you should be able to go back to your normal site.

Guttuso

Posted 3 months ago

Hello,

excuse my English

IE browser when viewed site Flahsh Gallery images are found in its cache,
I wish all browsers remote computers do not load images in their cache: cache in the browser no picture uploaded

Cordially

FlashXML Support

Hi,

Unfortunately this is not a feature for the component. Browsers automatically save in cache, even though you can manage that your browsers clear the cache, the ones who view your website must have same settings for the cache and that’s impossible.

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