Photo Flow Flash Gallery

Use the famous streamline photo flow effect on your website. This effect is well known because of the cover flow gallery switching from iTunes.

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PhotoFlow Flash Gallery - Configuring the gallery

Starting the Work

To start working simply paste object's HTML into your page and setup xml configuration file. You can place configuration file anywhere on your server.

Configuring the gallery

An XML file is used to configure the gallery. By editing the XML file, you can add or remove gallery images as well as edit multiple appearance and behavior settings. The format of the XML file is described below.

Gallery settings are described in the <settings></settings> tag of the XML file as follows: <parameter name> parameter value </parameter name>.

For example, the angle of an image is configured using the "imageAngle" tag: <imageAngle>25</imageAngle>.

Tag <item> </item> contains information related to a particular image.

 		<item>

<source>1.jpg</source>
<description>Image 1</description>
<link>http://www.flash-gallery.com</link>
<target>_blank</target>

</item>

 source — image file name 
  

 description — Image description 
  

 link — link to the web-page 
  

 target — controls where the new document will be displayed  
 
possible values: 
   	 
    "_self" specifies the current frame in the current window.
   	 
    "_blank" specifies a new window.
   	 
    "_parent" specifies the parent of the current frame.
   	 
    "_top" specifies the top-level frame in the current window.

XML file format

<gallery>
            

           <settings>
			
           	 <imagesFolder>images/</imagesFolder> 

           	 <imageAngle>30</imageAngle> 

           	 <useScrollBar>true</useScrollBar> 

           	 <slideShow>true</slideShow> 

           	 <slideShowDelay>2</slideShowDelay> 

           	 <flipDuration>1</flipDuration> 

           	 <flipSound></flipSound> 

           	 <colorScheme>black</colorScheme> 

			 
           </settings>
           <items>
            

           	 <item>
			 	
           		 <source>1.jpg</source> 

           		 <description>Image 1</description> 

           		 <link>http://www.flash-gallery.com</link> 

          		 <target>_blank</target> 

				 
           	 </item>
            

           	 <item>
			 	
           		 <source>2.jpg</source> 

           		 <description>Image 2</description> 

           		 <link>http://www.google.com</link> 

           		 <target>_blank</target> 

				 
           	 </item> 
            

           	 <item> 
			 
				 <source>…</source> 

           		 <description>…</description> 

           		 <link>…</link> 

           		 <target>…</target> 

			 	 
           	 </item> 
            

           </items>
            

           </gallery>