Complex Gallery in Flash 8
October 31, 2007 — flaim
I’ve decided to use and publish my latest version of a flash gallery as a private photo book - http://galeria.czytnik.com .
The gallery uses some cool features:
- ColorMatrix for _saturation and _contrast effects,
- Built in Tweening Class for image transitions and animations
- Stage (100%) with Stage.onResize
- Bitmap Filters and matrices for creating dynamic glass effects under photos
Feel free to comment the effort 
I’ll include the sources soon so stay tuned. Maybe someone will need something like that in his own project/gallery.
Have fun,
Flaim
November 25, 2007 at 7:27 am
Your gallery it´s great!
I am working with gallerys - complex gallerys too; althogh not like yours-.
I have some questions about this…
You are using the adobe AC_RunActiveContent.js; At my gallerys the speed of the movie is great with this file, but I need to use the deconcept file - to not be unnoticed by the search engines-.The speed with the deconcept javascript file is bad, specially in opera. But I think that the speed is my problem, not with one or other .js file.
So, you are using a “Built in Tweening Class for image transitions and animations”
Maybe you can give me an advice about that, because I am trying with the adobe Tween class and I have problems with the speed. Then the speed must be the same at any browser.
Cheers!
Diego Quinteros
November 26, 2007 at 8:31 am
Hey Diego!
I used the AC_AX and AC_RAC only because flash generated it automatically and I had no time to do it myself
1. I normally use Swfobject from deconcept - http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/) - You can also use the old UFO javascript - http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/ - They are both better than AC_RunActiveContent. Other thing is that I didn’t notice any speed issues when using SWFObject but there is a huge problem with Flash plugin running under opera - large amounts of Tweens kill the browser. Telling you the truth - I don’t care about that browser that much. If it runs under FF + IE6&7 it’s good
There are also many problems with MacOSx and flash under FF - i.ex. Mouse.hide(); causes some big instability and speed problems - the same with large scale tranasparencies (_alpha tweening and so on).
2. I use the built-in Adobe Tweening class because it’s sufficient for most of my projects (some menu animations, thumbnail animations and so on) but it’s rather slow when using large amounts of tweens simultanously. In this case you have to use something faster i.ex.
a) Tweener (http://code.google.com/p/tweener/)
b) Tween Lite (http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas2)
Tweener has more options but it’s a bit slower and Tween Lite is a bit faster one but it lacks any additional goodies
Nevertheless they are both extremely fast in comparison to Adobe’s Class.
The last thing - You said that you have problems with speed in different browsers - My personal remarks are that Tweens in IE run slower than FF and they die under Opera - the plugins run slower I suppose on different platforms and browsers (the earlier mentioned macosx behaves weird when the flash is 100% x 100% browser + some animations and so on).
e-mail me at mb(AT)thinq.pl If you have any questions or just want to chat about Flash :),
Flaim