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trundrumbalind
October 25th, 2007, 12:59 PM
Hi guys,
Working on a bit of a photogallery recently would love a bit of feedback. It's definately not there yet but you can changes views and rearrange orders by clicking on photos in the "scatter" view. Any ideas for improvement or anything would be great. Please only critique the functionality though! The design's far from done... Also, proper preloader coming soon...

www.davidfox.jp/gallery


Dave
dimitri_c
October 25th, 2007, 02:12 PM
Simple, but very nice! :thumb2:
Do you think to post the FLA?



- Dimitri http://www.thebend.be/can6/
trundrumbalind
October 25th, 2007, 02:20 PM
Thanks man. Actually it's OOP so it's a bunch of classes. I'll post the lot when I've got all the rest of the functionality in there... Site looks good by the way my fellow "polaroid interface designer"!
twdesignz06
October 25th, 2007, 02:45 PM
That looks pretty good, I like the scatter button because it's similar to Apple's Expose. One thing I did notice is that on a couple of the polaroids, when the cards flip to the back they seem to get cut off by the stage size (on the right side of the animation).
dail
October 25th, 2007, 04:01 PM
Nice, one thing it would benefit from though, is a simple depth sorting method. Like, click the top image and it shuffles to the back of the stack, or you could make it drag and drop, drag a photo off the top, and it shuffles to the back etc...
trundrumbalind
October 25th, 2007, 04:33 PM
Nice, one thing it would benefit from though, is a simple depth sorting method. Like, click the top image and it shuffles to the back of the stack, or you could make it drag and drop, drag a photo off the top, and it shuffles to the back etc...


Hmmm.....isn't that what happens when you click on the arrows in the top-left in the polaroid view? I thought about drag-and-drop but I really wanted to keep the interface natural just like you flip through a packet of baseball cards or something. Also, when you click on the TOP image, it will open up a larger version (working on that now...)

Thanks for all the comments though guys. About the image going off the stage, it's just a beta and I've been too lazy to make it bigger. Actually, the final version will have a transparent background so the cards will overlap the HTML content when they go through the flipping animation.
dail
October 25th, 2007, 08:45 PM
yeah, that is what happens when you click those arrows, but it would also be nice if you could click on the photos as well...As you can click on them when in scatter view..so in terms of an interface, its consistent behaviour to expect to be able to click on them when in stack view.

I see that you are going to make a click on the top make it open a large view..so that negates my suggestion anyhow. If that is what you are going to do, you might want to disable being able to click on one of the photos that is not at the top of the stack, as you can now...
minthu
October 26th, 2007, 12:36 AM
This is nice! I would like to see the complete one with more functionality.
tezzutezzu
October 27th, 2007, 01:09 PM
hello Dave! I've done also a similar project a couple of days ago posted here:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=278689
trundrumbalind
October 27th, 2007, 02:43 PM
hello Dave! I've done also a similar project a couple of days ago posted here:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=278689

Hey man. Yeah I like yours too but maybe a little too complex and flexing your impressive Actionscript muscles without too much effort into usability or looks. It's wicked though man. I had trouble pulling images from the middle and bringing them up to the top though.
tezzutezzu
October 28th, 2007, 04:38 PM
hi trundrum. Thanks for the critique I'll try to improve it when I have a bit more time (still have no computer....) also to fix that pulling from the middle, I'll probably have to come up with a different strategy.
Have a good week start, y'all!
slopps
October 29th, 2007, 01:39 PM
Good work man. Looks good! Would look really nice implemented into a website.

Are there any limitations to the number of photos? Would it have trouble scattering say...25 photos or would it just keep making rows of photos?
trundrumbalind
October 30th, 2007, 11:35 AM
Good work man. Looks good! Would look really nice implemented into a website.

Are there any limitations to the number of photos? Would it have trouble scattering say...25 photos or would it just keep making rows of photos?


Hi there. Yes it will just keep creating rows of however many images you pass it through the XML. BUT! If you were to send it 25 images, that might be too many and would affect system performance. I have it running with 15 right now and it's pretty ok. I was thinking of just doing pagination of each set of 15. What do you guys think??

Dave
rf1017
October 30th, 2007, 03:16 PM
tezzutezzu (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/member.php?u=61789),

I've got to say, I like your version more. The larger pictures and black backround give me a better sense of flipping through photos somehow.

It would be nice to be able to click a photo behind another and have it jump to it. A nav option with the ability to view the pics spread out would be nice as well.

You need to add some functionality as mentioned, but great job!