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Pyramid Gallery FX


    
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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 Pyramid Gallery on your website


Step 1. SWF embedding

Download the pyramid.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("pyramid_gallery.swf", "PyramidDiv", "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="PyramidDiv"></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 Gallery.

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 Pyramid Gallery on the same page, for the same pyramid.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), the duration in seconds for each image.
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" url="http://www.flashxml.net" target="_blank"><![CDATA[
<tooltip>Hello</tooltip>
<description>Description text</description>]]></photo>


pyramid_gallery.swf embeds only the Verdana font. To be able to embed any other font you'll need the Pyramid 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 Pyramid Gallery in Flash projects (FLA files), the Pyramid Gallery is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the commercial archive available at FlashComponents.net

Instructions on how to use the PyramidGallery 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 PyramidGallery Component in Flash (available for Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).

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

You can watch an instalation 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 dispach events, but stay tuned for an update.

 

 

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If you want to use it in multiple personal websites you will have to purchase a license for each personal website or you can purchase the Special License below.

This license applies for a single person/company/organization. If you want to use this product for your clients then you will need to purchase a suitable license for each of your clients.

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If you (or your company) want to use it in multiple commercial websites you will have to purchase a license for each website or you can purchase the Special License below.

This license applies for a single person/company/organization. If you want to use this product for your clients then you will need to purchase a suitable license for each of your clients.

You may not redistribute or resell this product as a whole or in parts, but you may modify its contents.
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This license applies for a single person/company/organization. If you want to use this product for your clients then you will need to purchase a suitable license for each of your clients.

You may not redistribute or resell this product as a whole or in parts, but you may modify its contents.
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