Comments on: Build a Dynamic Flash and XML Slideshow with Scripted Transitions

By: Silvia

Silvia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:49:07 +0000

Hello Bryce,
great tutorial, thanks!
By the way, the second photo is the Oropa sanctuary, near Biella (my town) in Italy. What a surprise!
Silvia

By: sasakae

sasakae — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:14:43 +0000

lol. nerds. its fine for me to work with.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:08:36 +0000

The source file won’t open in Flash CS3. I get an error saying “unexpected file format”.

Otherwise, a great tutorial!

By: Kem

Kem — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:03:22 +0000

Great Work Bryce Howitson !!!

congratulatione.

By: Nishant Makvana

Nishant Makvana — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:15:34 +0000

Hi,

I am new to flash as2 and i learned a lot from this tutorial

it help me a lot

thanks for this great work.

keep doing great.

By: jhon

jhon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:12:02 +0000

For me it’s ok, FF in mac, I hope the same tut in AS3 in the future

By: jorge

jorge — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:15:29 +0000

hello, great tutorial, thanks for shearing this, I have some questions, How can I call the image from number, i added to the slideshow some thumbnails and want them to work with the slideshow, like if i click on thumb 5 image 5 loads on stage and the timer continue running, anyone can give me an insight in this one??

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:50:53 +0000

I figured it out with lots of searching on the internet. The answer was to add the following two lines below the line:

imageList = photos_xml.firstChild.childNodes;

imageList.sort(function(){return Math.floor(Math.random()*3)-1});
imageList.pop();

These lines essentially randomizes the xml data as it is loaded into the array and keeps the slideshow from repeating any images.

Hope this helps someone else!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:32:21 +0000

Excellent Tutorial!

Can someone help me randomize the order of the images, but not repeat?

Thanks in advance.

By: Zebratan

Zebratan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:00:03 +0000

First of all great tutorial.

Secondly I would like to join Alex and several other users asking how to get working back and forward buttons implemented into this.

It would really help me a lot…