Publishing the gallery

Publishing without a configuration file

1. Drop the gallery’s component to the stage from the Components panel.


Fig. 1. Gallery Flash Component

2. Set a name for the gallery’s instance in the Properties panel


Fig. 2. Name for the gallery’s instance

3. Set a position and dimensions of the instance in the Properties panel


Fig. 3. Position and dimensions

4. Customize the view of the gallery using parameters in the Parameters panel or the Properties panel


Fig. 4. Component parameters

5. Set values for the parameters “imagesFolder” and “thumbnailsFolder”. (If you do not set paths to these folders you should include it by yourself in the path to every image, e.g. “images/1.jpg”)


Fig. 5. Path to images and thumbnails folders

6. Open the actions panel or the main class of your flash-movie


Fig. 6. Actions panel

7. Set all info about images as follows:

galleryInstance.items=[{source:”1.jpg", thumb:”1t.jpg”, description:”first image”},
{source:”2.jpg", thumb:”2t.jpg”, description:”second image”},
{source:”3.jpg", thumb:”3t.jpg”, description:”third image”}];


Fig. 7. Info about images

8. Build the gallery with added items:

galleryInstance.build();

Fig. 8. Build the gallery

9. Now you can publish your Flash movie.

Publishing using a configuration file

An XML or JSON file can be used to add gallery images.

1. Drop the gallery’s component to the stage from the Components panel.


Fig. 9. Gallery Flash Component

2. Set a position and dimensions of the instance in the Properties panel


Fig. 10. Position and dimensions

3. Customize the view of the gallery using parameters in the Parameters panel or the Properties panel


Fig. 11. Component parameters

4. Set values for the parameters “imagesFolder” and “thumbnailsFolder”. (If you do not set paths to these folders you should include it by yourself in the path to every image , e.g. “images/1.jpg”


Fig. 12. Path to images and thumbnails folders

5. Create a configuration file with info about images using a JSON or XML structure
6. Set a path to the configuration file using the parameter “configPath” in the list of parameters:


Fig. 13. Path to the configuration file

7. Now you can publish your Flash movie.