New Gallery – Unfocused
Posted by Elliot.
Here is the latest non-released gallery template for SWiSHzone.com:
It is set up in the same manner as the other gallery templates, via a setup file and internally using a component that has settings for multiple arrow designs, colour pickers for the graphic devices and scroll orientation (left/right or up/down). Like the other galleries it is quite accepting of how the user sets up the images – you don’t need large images for example. It also can be used as a video gallery both swf and flv, this ties it into SWiSH Video3 for SWiSHzone.
The idea behind it is a mock depth of vision, focus and unfocused. The technologies that I have developed for this are:
- Destination listeners for the animations. This is a drop in component that allows for simple call back functions to be implemented on the destination complete of animations.
- Sequential loading of thumbnail images. The galleries can host a lot of images and the easiest way to get around pre-loading the majority of the structure is to let the template function as the content loads. The larger images are load on demand.
- Common structure. The structure is the same as the template sites and other galleries. The other developers use this same structure. It is structural based so that designer/developers have a better time with quick turn-around design and development.
-AS2 for compatibility with SWiSH Max2 and SWiSH miniMax2.