I was looking for a list of properties for modal window styles and stumbled across this:
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The SuperPanel is an excellent component created by Wietse Veenstra. The styling is all hard-coded, and I need to be able to change this. It also hard-codes the event that is triggered on close, and I wanted to be able to control this. So I added the appropriate meta-tags and properties to enable these options. Here is the result, link to the source is at the bottom:
I've updated this component to allow for keyboard and forward/back navigation. I'm still improving it, refactoring, but it is almost finished.
Here is the original post.
I've been working on improvements for this thumbnail/slideshow component. The way the continuous scroll flows is very nice. It provides a very fluid feel. I have it reading XML from SlideShowPro director. SSPD simply gives a structure of albums and images, so the component should work from essentially any XML source as long as it follows the same schema:
<gallery> <album id="0" description="DESCRIPTION" title="TITLE" tn="PATH" lgpath="PATH" tnpath="PATH"> <img src="FILENAME" /> ... </album> </gallery>
There is still a good bit of work to do. Right now the slideshow is coupled with the thumbnail container. I think that should be seperated, because I can see various uses for thumbnails outside of a slideshow. It needs style and event metadata so that it will function as a proper Flex component. I am also going to roll it into mediated PureMVC components for inclusion in VE:Session.
The source is here.
Here is the beginnings of a full featured open-source continuous scroll thumbnail component for Flex. It is rough right now, but I plan to polish it and make it something useful. This format is really appealing, as it gives the user a seamless view of a gallery, without any jumps or aggravating scroll bars. Up until now I have been using H and V Lists in flex for my thumbnailing, but they are ugly and don't provide as rich of an experience.
The Scroll Panel from AFComponents was my first choice. It is a very nice component, well priced, and would be just what I need, if not for the fact that my project is open-source and using a commercial component sorta kills the whole thing. After scouring the internet I finally stumbled upon the work Peter Wright has put in on a perpetual scrolling list.
I've modified it to accept an XML list of image objects, as well as perform horizontally. It is also functioning as a slideshow, and I want to allow it to go either H or V depending on the need. It should shape up to be a nice reusable component. Much thanks to Peter for supplying the code to get me started.
