Intro-Demo

It's a simple flash gallery with some features that I couldn't find in other Flash galleries. Exists as Joomla plugin or stand-alone. The documentation is waiting for itself, but in the mean time, check the features, which displays already some parametrization and an example config file.

Features

• Cross platform ( Windows/Macintosh/Linux )
  Cross browser ( Firefox / Internet Explorer / Safari / .. )
• 100% FREE

• Loads JPG, PNG, GIF or SWF
• Fullscreen option
• Lightweight / Small footprint (<25KB!!)
• Browse with buttons and keyboard (space, enter, arrows)
• Autostretches images to full width or heigth
• Customizable via individual parameters and individual or global config file. (All parameters in the documentation).
• Albums (or "sets") display
  • with custom covers
  • Albums resize relativily to display! (and smaller)
  • Cover of default album shown as big image on start (if slideshow paused)
• 100% use of flash frame / view / display pane
• Autohides buttons and thumbs (now also on idle)
• Click image = Go to URL or Save dialog (without pop-up) ( = Save locally)
  Only images from same domain can directly be saved, others will open in new browser window.
  (Can be overrided with a flash security file, cross domain file, like inFlickr, etc.!)
• Can be run standalone on your PC (with local (hard disk, usb, ..) or remote images)
• Displays bugs & errors in a fading screen
• Uses the SWFObject static publishing method (asa nested object or Flash Satay method) to ensure the most optimal cross-browser support by means of markup only, while being standards compliant and supporting alternative content.
• Doesn't extract images, only makes them smaller if they don't fit.
• Doesn't stop slideshow or thumbs when some image(s) are not available
• Mini loadbar
• One loader for all thumbs -> Less CPU memory?

For al further features check out the Changelog

Planned

Changelog

Documentation

You can use the Player locally, online and as Joomla plugin (one of the winning opensource CMS).

For all uses

By default, the Player starts by looking for an XML configuration file (fmg.xml) in the path it is invoked from (wherever you put the swf).   Here is an example config file from the gallery on this page. (Select "Save as.." or click and "View source" of the page.  Since it is XML, it could display differently on your browser!)

For all uses, you have to take these steps:

1. Extract or install the package where you want this (joomla does this automatically)
2. Put your images in any folder. (For online versions you need to put your images yourself too)
3. Open the xml file  and manually edit all images or other settings.  I believe all parameters below can also be set in this file, but I am not sure anymore.
   For online versions (incl. joomla) you can use the extracted or installed php file in stead of the xml file.  It allows to automatically generate all images from any online folder or path.

For online (non joomla) use

1. You can change the location of the configuration file via Flash variables (Flashvars).  And you can make different configuration files for different album sets via the specifi Flashvar named XMLConfigFile
2. Example for html :

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"  width="100%" height="400">
 <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
 <param name="movie" value="http://attic.e-builds.com/plugins/content/fmgallery/fmg.swf" />
 <param name="quality" value="high" />
 <param name="FlashVars" value="XMLConfigFile=http://attic.e-builds.com/plugins/content/fmgallery/gallery.php&&amp;startAlbum=0" />
</object>

For Joomla plugin

1. Don't forget to ENABLE your plugin after installing it!
2. As the section above, you can choose different configuration files (xml or the automatic php files).  Open them and edit them. (For now, trey to understand and change the code.  It's quite self-explanatory.
   You can find the default ones here:
   [YOUR JOOMLA PATH]/plugins/content/fmgallery/gallery.php (or ./fmgallery.xml).
3. Put the gallery in any of your content or articles as follows.
   

   {fmgallery [100%] [400] [gallery.php] [&startAlbum=0]}

4. The 3d parameter sets the configuration file you want to use for this gallery.  (If you don't have your configuration file on the above paht, put the complete URL for it in this parameter (starting with "http://").
   And with the 4th parameter you can set any of the parameters below to change the behavior of the gallery.  Start each parameter with an & (ampersand).

Parameters

Current custom parameters (and defaults) that change the behavior of the flash gallery:

• startAlbum (0)
  Album to display at start
• slidePause (false)
  Pause the slideshow at start
• thmbSize (50) //Possibly bugged
  Specify the sizes of your thumbnails (you should take the longest size for best quality!)
• thSp (10)
  Space between thumbs
• thSlideSpeed (1)
  Speed of the thumbnails scrolling
• sSInterval (5000)
  Time between slideshow intervals.
• XMLConfigFile (default: /plugins/content/fmgallery/gallery.php)
  The config file with albums and descriptions.
• hideAlbums (true)
  If set to false, albums will be shown to select on startup.

If you want to add some text to this documentation, please send it to me.

Download

• As Standalone package (fmg 002sa.zip)
• As Joomla 1.5 Plugin (plg_FMGallery_J15_v002.zip) Visit our extension page here
• As monitor package (fmg 002m.zip) for benchmarking, memory, etc..