Warning: This component is not compatible with Flash MX2004 or Flash 8.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Place the "slide_show.mxp" file into the Flash MX folder and create a folder, which you call for example "Downloaded Extensions",
• Click on the "slide_show.mxp" file, which will open the extension manager,
• Under "file" go to "install extensions",
• You will be asked to accept the Macromedia conditions, click "accept",
• Open Flash and check under UI components bar, the component should be installed.
• Drag the component on the stage.

The Parameters

Click on the component instance on the stage and you will see the parameters in the property inspector.

• Thumbnail Yes?: You have the choice to create separate thumbnails, true or false. If false your pics will automatically be your thumbnails and scaled down 85%.
• thumb single row: You can set the thumbs as a single instead of double row.
• horizontal: thumbs can be set vertical (false) or horizontal (true).
• size Thumbnails: If you answered "true" you can size the thumbnails to 50x50pixels (true) or you can leave them as you made them.
• Thumbnail name: Enter the path and name for your thumbnails, for example thumbs/nail_ . Name your thumbs consecutively with name+number starting with 1.
• Thumb background: There is an optional background, which looks like a filmrole. You can of course change it with your own background or do not choose it. The background is only working in horizontal mode.
• thumb timer: This will determine how fast your nails will be placed in the movie. I would set it to 3000 for separate thumbnails and depending on the filesize of your pics (5000 for around 30kb pics) more if you decide to use the pics as thumbnails as well. If it is too low, the thumbs will not show up because of loading problems.
• Number of Pics: Enter the number of pics you have.
• Name of pic: Enter the path and name for example images/slide_ . See Thumbnail name for more details.
• fading speed: You have the option to have your pics faded in. You can set a value between 10 and 60 or so (test it out) or leave it default for no fading.
• text option: If you have text for your slides, you can set this option to "true". You can use actionscript to change textfield parameters such as border, colors and so on. Name your component and use this path "componentName.textfield.message". HTML is automatically set. Further there are two asfunctions for links and for going to different frames in your movie. To use those write for example:

<A HREF="asfunction:getURL,http://www.macromedia.com/"><U>Macromedia</U></A> 

for links and

<A HREF="asfunction:goFrame,framename"><U>Slides</U></A>. 

Otherwise the rules for flash MX textfields apply.

• name of textfile: Enter the path and name of textfiles. All textfiles have to have the ".txt" extension.

Thumbs can further be positioned using actionscript in the main frame:

• componentName.chD=number The number value will set the distance between the thumbnails.
• componentName.chX=number The number will set the x position of the thumbnails.
• componentName.chY=number The number will set the y position of the thumbnails.
• componentName.picScX=number The number will change the width and height scale default values (only for thumbnails yes? set to false).
• componentName.thW=number The number will change the width and height default values (only for thumbnails yes? set to true).

Textfield

Textfield changes can be done by putting actionscript in a keyframe in the main timeline, for example:

with(componentName.textfield.message){
	background=true;
	backgroundColor=0xededed;
	border=true;
	borderColor=0x000000;
}

will create a black border for the textfield and the background color will be grey.

If you have any suggestions or problems, find bugs, let me know.