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.
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
- Repositioned control buttons - Clicking when controls are hidden, now also shows next image (as a real slideshow should :-)) - Hide menu & mouse after mouse idle for 3 seconds - Smaller, unobtrusive loadbar - Hoovertips on buttons - Start slideshow after first thumb loaded! - Now hides the controls when leaving stage - Browse with keyboard (space, enter, arrows) - default config file is now fmg.xml in default folder (local and remote player should work now without changes ) - Autohiding of buttons and thumbs (now also on idle) - Shows cover of default album on start (if slideshow paused) - one loader for all thumbs -> Less CPU memory? (Especially for Sabine's old Desktop, hehe) - Background transparent (in html)! Makes it possible to show it as a pic wihtout user's knowledge and surprise him with the slideshow or when he hoovers the mouse over it (depending on your settings) - Album scroller (when more albums than can be shown) - Start on album view - FIXED: save image bug. - FIXED: bad last thumb position - FIXED: bug with resizing when there are so few thumbs that they don't fill the width of the stage - Loads all thumbnails with extensions jpg now (also for swf and png) - Various minor things ...
You can use the Player locally, online and online as plugin in Joomla (one of the winning opensource CMS). By default, the Player starts with looking for an XML configuration file (fmg.xml) in the path it is invoked from. You can change the location of the configuration file via Flash variables (Flashvars) (I believe this can only be done via html). For online versions I made a php file that makes this XML file automatically from any online path with images. In the Joomla plugin the location this file is set automatically via the 3d parameter. (There should be one installed on plugins/content/fmgallery/gallery.php. I'll automize this once, sooner or later.)
Here is an example config file from the above gallery. (Select "Save as.." or click and "View source" of the page. Since it is XML, it could display differently on your browser!)
Additionally you can set a range of variables that change the behavior. Current custom parameters (and defaults):
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 (http://www.e-builds.com/projects/fmg/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 documentation to this page, please don't hesitate to send it to me. I will place it here)
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