ooookkkaaay.... where is the gallery?  All I see is your into text..?

Your site is very nice and exactly what I'm trying to do!  I've got so many questions:  Do you use SSP for Flash?  Are the 'permalinks' you use the links that appear in the drop down caption bar?   What size original image do you upload?  How do you tell Flash to make the stage fill a window 100%?  Feel free not to answer any of those questions, but if you decide to, I would greatly appreciate it!  Your site rocks, and the photography is great as well!

Nice images...but, not sure why everyone is buying into the full screen deployment.  I have a large monitor and I actually find it annoying.

Last edited by tweaked_eye (2009-12-01 19:32:42)

I'm looking at this website with 1920x1200 resolution on a 22" monitor and feel like the full screen ssp is a great way to showcase the photography. 

I do agree that thumbnails are nice to have so long as with Jason's site, they don't take away from the simple qualities.  Perhaps a hidden thumbgrid on the bottom until mouseover or something would be nice. 

At any rate, thanks, Jason for doing some actual telling and not just showing-- kudos for that!  Thanks again for the code, and information and I still think your site is very NICE!

Oh yeah, that's exactly how I envisioned it!  Lookin' good, lookin' good!

I really like the full screen w/thumb nails.  I mostly shoot real estate photography and I need to sell agents on "WoW factor" over the crappy images you see on MLS.  My problem is figuring out where to start!

I have publisher running and a demo up under the samples button.  I did this one with lightroom but I am switching over to Flash.
http://www.ntxrealpix.com
What I want to accomplish is the full screen look set to a size, the very nice center nav buttons and the thumb nails on the bottom.

So lisky, where does your code go and what else do I need to do to accomplish what I want?

A lots to ask so thanks,
Doug

If I ever learn the flash part then I will build the whole site in a gallery.

jimmymusic wrote:

How did you create the hyper links that appear in the caption/header?  I only know how to enter plain text in that field.

There's one button that calls a contact email.

// URLs for home / contact
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ButtonFunction);
function ButtonFunction(event: MouseEvent) {
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("ANY_URL");
navigateToURL(request, "_self");
}

And there are buttons that call albums within SS_Pro.

arch.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler);
pub.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler);
garden.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler);
function buttonClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
if( event.target == garden)
{my_ssp.loadAlbum ('album-9', 0);}
else if (event.target == arch)
{my_ssp.loadAlbum ('album-10',0);}
else if (event.target == pub)
{my_ssp.loadAlbum ('album-12',0);
}
}

I'm not sure what you mean by 'header',  but yes the caption is driven by SSPro, and displays if a caption is present - if not it is not displayed.

Hi Liske.

Very nice photos, and a very interesting design solution you have chosen. I like it a lot. I have a questions you might be able and willing to answer for me. I have been working with pretty much the same navigation buttons; the plus and minus as 'next' and 'previous' buttons. I managed to create the movie clips as buttons and got it working, but I have problems hiding the minus button on the first slide as well as hiding the plus button on the last slide. I can see that you on your site have solved this. I would be  very grateful if you could help me to a solution. Have tried, but cannot find the answer anywhere.
Thanks a lot /N

any chance you can share your approach / source code?

Thanks, Markus

nermin wrote:

Hi Liske.

Very nice photos, and a very interesting design solution you have chosen. I like it a lot. I have a questions you might be able and willing to answer for me. I have been working with pretty much the same navigation buttons; the plus and minus as 'next' and 'previous' buttons. I managed to create the movie clips as buttons and got it working, but I have problems hiding the minus button on the first slide as well as hiding the plus button on the last slide. I can see that you on your site have solved this. I would be  very grateful if you could help me to a solution. Have tried, but cannot find the answer anywhere.
Thanks a lot /N

Thumbgrid - I have been getting alot of requests for the thumbgrid portion of the site.... I believed I 'hacked it' by either calling it twice, or maybe by only resizing Y? If you isolate the key criteria please post for others. Mine is still not perfect however, and hopefully this function will work out in future TG release.

[My thumbgrid instance my_tg, columns 14, rows 1. Probably not too important? ]

[Head of script, you may have some of this already, or there may be extra items]

//___________

import net.slideshowpro.slideshowpro.*;
import net.slideshowpro.thumbgrid.*;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.events.Event;

//______

stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, setupThumbGrid);

function setupThumbGrid (event:Event):void {
var sw:Number = stage.stageWidth;
var sh:Number = stage.stageHeight;
my_tg.y = sh-80;
my_tg.x = sw-sw;
my_tg.width = sw;
my_tg.height = 80;
}

//_______

//liquid
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);

// initialize sizing
resizeHandler (null);

function resizeHandler (event:Event):void {
var sw:Number = stage.stageWidth;
var sh:Number = stage.stageHeight;
my_ssp.width = sw;
my_ssp.height = sh;
my_tg.y = sh-80;
}

Regards,
Jason

Last edited by liske (2009-12-29 18:56:34)

Very cool site Jason - I'm all for the full screen effect, especially when the photography is as good as yours.

Thanks for sharing your code as well - very much appreciated.

Permalinks - so I can direct people to an individual image....

It's a symbol that comes in over SSP instance in the SSP FLA file.

Nice website.  May i ask what font are u using for the caption on the side?  Thanks.

HI Jason.  Great site!  I have used your AS3 code for scaling my webpage to the browser and it works wonderfully except the + and - buttons for Next Image and Previous Image don't scale to the sides of the window (they stay in their original location which places them too close together and out of place in the larger scale browser window).   I used the code for my buttons from the ssp wiki and I have placed them on the ssp instance layer.  I would really appreciate any help on this thanks!

Thanks Jimmy.  Good solution.  The buttons now appear where they should.

Hi Guys

Jason, I have tested the code on my site, and I am very happy with the results. I still want to add Thumb Grid, but I found out in the Forum, it doesn't resize the number of columns dynamically. If we open your site in a small browser window, then stretch it full size, the number of columns doesn't fit the browser size. It stays always the same as launched. The component fits the width but it displays a gray space after the last column. I read it is how Thumb Grid works by design. So it would be a nice enhancement for future versions of Thumb Grid.

http://www.nandoleira.com/SITE.AS3a4/Main.html

One thing. My SSP instance was stretching to fit the browser window ok, but it was leaving a small margin around the movie clip in the browser, so updated the HTML file generated by Flash. I added these lines right before the </head> to force the movie clip to fit the browser.

<style type=”text/css”>
        body  {
    margin:0px;
    padding:0px;
              }
</style>


I also added the X and Y coordinates to my AS file to fix the buttons in place. I still need to add more navigation, site name, contact info etc. I am reading about adding and removing child in AS3.

Thank you guys for all your help.
Cheers
Nando

Last edited by nandoleira (2010-02-22 16:17:02)

Hey liske... thanks a lot!

I've been showing my digital work in a few galleries in Chicago. I usually print them on canvas, but I also use Blurb to get it into a book...

http://www.blurb.com/user/store/NandoRJ


: )

Thanks for all your codes!!

anyone figure out how to get the thumbgrid to hide?