Circular Thumbnail Gallery

[minthu]

Recently I have added "circular thumbnail (http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_129_circle)" gallery which is built on Flash CS3 ActionScript 3.0. Hope it will be useful for some people. :)

http://www.flashmo.com/flash_templates/flashmo_129_circle.jpg

[bootiteq]

That is really nice minthu! Would be even sweeter if the thumbs popped back into their original depth on MOUSE_OUT

[Sage_of_Fire]

It's nice looking, but a little unintuitive. If I were you, I'd put some sort of grabable surface around the edge of the ring of thumbnails so that people could just click and drag around. The buttons are pretty slow and unintuitive. Still better than I've ever done, however...

[skineh]

Good stuff! I agree w/ bootiteq that it'd be nice if the image would return to its original depth when you roll out. Also, I'd have liked the ability to hold down the arrow buttons rather than continually clicking to rotate the circular gallery. Great work!

[minthu]

bootiteq, Sage_of_Fire, and skineh,

Thank you very much!

I am really glad to know your feedbacks (great ideas) which I did not imagine. Now your ideas will help me to improve it in next versions. :)

[minthu]

I have made new version of circular thumbnail gallery enhanced by your ideas.

Please check it http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_132_circle

http://www.flashmo.com/flash_templates/flashmo_132_circle.jpg

[Noahdecoco]

Thanks for putting the new file up Minthu. It looks great. Smooth coding!

[bootiteq]

Nice work minthu! Looks great

What about removing the sliding function when you mouse up anywhere on stage instead of when you drag out of the slider?

It would mean you could then make the gallery rotate whilst your mouse was outside the small area. I had an urge whilst using it to drag my mouse out over the pics so that they could enlarge one by one as the gallery turned.

[insaniak]

This is a very nice script but I just wanted to explain a slight flaw I think there is. To rollover the next thumbnail, you have to move all the way to the edge of the current one and over the next item, which is further than half way across the item you are moving to. Ideally, you want to select the item with the nearest centreline to the point of the mouse at that time. Not explaining it too well am I.

Imagine this, http://www.insaniak.com/flash8/as_gallery/asonly_gallery_insaniak2.html and notice how you flick to the next thumbnail as you move down the list before you leave the surface area of the last one.

Perhap add a bit more easing to the thumbnail resizing as well, it seems quite harsh to me. Otherwise, I do like it a lot, especially with the slider mod improvement.

[minthu]

bootiteq, at first I tried like you said but I felt that it looks like a bug or sth. You can try that by removing this line #169. dragger.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, drop);

insaniak, I got what you mean. Yes, it could be better if I made like the sample you showed me.

Thanks for all of you giving me some tips anyway. I will try to improve upcoming galleries. :)