Wayne Smith

Musings about Microsoft Expression

Monday, October 31, 2005

A Simple Image Viewer

Sometimes you set out to do something really simple and fall at the first hurdle. A colleague wanted to show some jpg images on a website as a slide show. Simple fades, start to finish. Every JavaScript and Flash version of slide shows that I looked at online (and there were many!) were complex, or had caveats about not working in this browser or that browser. I wasted a couple of hours, put the kettle on, made tea and wrote this in Flash 8. Now it does absolutely nothing, which was all I wanted. No borders, no logos, no controls, nothing. The SWF file is less than 1K in size and you can use it to show 3 or 7 or 11 or whatever number of slides. You can set the time each is onscreen and you can make the images loop if you wish. If you are suffering the same, take it! It's yours. Don't credit me, but please feel free to fiddle with it, improve it - whatever...

4 Comments:

  • At 19:19, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I haven't used it yet, but it is exactly the kind of image viewer I was looking for in the past. Thanks a lot!!
    fn

     
  • At 14:20, Blogger Michael said…

    Nice simple viewer! I tried to use this as a page in a pageflip component, but could not get it to work. Do you have any ideas to get it working? It is loaded as a page. I think I have al the paths ok. Some help would be nice! Thanx.

     
  • At 06:07, Anonymous mike said…

    i have been searching for something like this for AGES!!! thanks very much

     
  • At 11:57, Blogger Wayne Smith said…

    You're welcome Mike. Nice to see it's still getting some use and people are finding it! :-)

     

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