With this gallery effect you can display unlimited amount of images stored in your server. Images are loaded dynamically into the movie clip on demand. You can either let them be cached in memory or let the applet forget them when a new picture is loaded into it's place.

The colors and background image

You can set the background color. If you use a background image then it will overwrite the background color. The background image is automatically resized to fit the applet window.

Entering Images

This applet supports both embedded and dynamic images. The embedded images are included in the .swf file but the dynamic images are loaded from the server when they are needed. Make sure you put the images on the same directory level (same folder) as the HTML file in which you have embedded this applet. If you use images that are big, make sure that you put them on the dynamic list and don't embed them in order to have a smaller .swf file. Try modifying the compression setting to decrease the SWF file size for embedded JPEG images. You are not required to use any image technology, select the one that fits your need.

Columns and Rows

Here you can specify how many columns and rows you want to have with images. Make sure though that you have images to fit in your grid.

Image distance

This is the distance between the images displayed (when you are not moving your mouse over them).

Caching images and image selection

If the image cache is checked then the images will stay in memory after being dynamically loaded from the server. By checking the random image selection box the images will be selected randomly from the internal dynamic image register AND from the embedded images. So in theory the same image may appear after clicking it away.

Pause and speeds

The image pause is how long the image still on the screen after having clicked it once. While the fade speed controls the speed of the disappearing image.

Limitations

Due to a limitation in Flash Player 6.0, you are limited to a maximum of 200 embedded images in the Flash applet. More than that, and the applet will not work. This only applies to embedded images, not to images in the dynamic list.

Other settings

There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Anfy Flash documentation:

Entering Text Or Files
Working With Text Fields
The Flash Applet Size Parameters
URL Links and Frame Targets
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Color Buttons
Working with fonts
Compression Ratios for images
Adding MP3 Sound Effects

Anibal Wainstein