extensive slideshow 2004-03-17 - By Andreas Weber
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Just to get you started:
Below some code how to randomly load some thumbnails and position them in a
image-stripe.
To avoid exessive download times, I suggest you make two folders with
images: one for the thumbnails and one for the big ones.
HTH
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Andreas Weber
motiondraw.com
this.createEmptyMovieClip('stripe',1);
// **************************
// SETTINGS
//***************************
// how many jpegs on the stripe?
stripe.numPix = 4;
// the thumbnails are in the subfolder 'sPix'
stripe.pix = ['sPix/A.jpg', 'sPix/mountain.jpg', 'sPix/77.jpg',
'sPix/B.jpg', 'sPix/bull.jpg','sPix/table.jpg', 'sPix/3whatever.jpg'];
// position the stripe
stripe._x = 30;
stripe._y = 100;
// **************************
// END SETTINGS
//***************************
// helper
this.createEmptyMovieClip('monitor_mc',2);
stripe.loadCount = 0;
stripe.nextX = 0;
// randomize the order
arrayShuffle(stripe.pix);
// get the ball rolling...
loadImage();
function loadImage(){
var num = stripe.loadCount;
var curMC = stripe.createEmptyMovieClip('pix'+num, num + 1000);
curMC.loadMovie(stripe.pix[num]);
monitor_mc.targetMC = curMC;
monitorDownload();
}
function monitorDownload(){
monitor_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
var loaded = this.targetMC.getBytesLoaded();
var total = this.targetMC.getBytesTotal();
if(total > 15){
//trace(Math.round((loaded/total)*100) + '% loaded');
if(loaded >= total){
// position the image
this.targetMC._x = stripe.nextX;
stripe.nextX += this.targetMC._width;
// load next...
stripe.loadCount++;
if(stripe.loadCount < stripe.numPix){
loadImage(stripe.loadCount);
}else{
// here could be called another function,
// e.g. to load the big image
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}
}
}
function arrayShuffle(arr){
var len = arr.length;
var rand,temp,i;
for (i = 0; i<len; i++){
rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*len);
temp = arr[i];
arr[i] = arr[rand];
arr[rand] = temp;
}
return arr;
}
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