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19/12/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash
You can create a cool menu for your website in under half an hour using Flash’s clever IgalleryX component. Paul Wyatt explains how
If you’ve got an iPod I’m guessing you’ll distinctly remember the first time you experienced its menu. No doubt what rattled through your head was the sheer coolness factor of it.
It is cool. It’s also a great way to show content on the web. But building one is hard work, which involves spending a lot of time getting your head around some pretty hefty coding.
But now there’s a great Flash component that can help you bypass most of that. It’s called IgalleryX and there are two versions of it: a pure component version for AS2 – available from Flash Den for only a tenner – and a completely open source version for AS3.
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use the AS2 version to produce a fully working Cover Flow-style menu system. With a little XML knowledge, image editing, CSS styling and Flash component tweaking you’ll be done in about half an hour.
We’ll also give you an overview of how to get the best out of the open source AS3 version, including the inside knowledge from its developer Rimmon Trieu, who discusses how he developed the menu components as well as some of his upcoming projects.
About the author:
Name: Paul Wyatt
Site: www.paulwyatt.co.uk
Areas of expertise: Interactive web design, motion graphics and video
Clients: The X Factor, Fanta, Smirnoff and Research Studios
What makes you angry? Bigotry dressed up as humour
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Comments
tdesign / 22/12/2008 / 16:56
Hello,
Really nice work here, can you recommend any flash courses in the london area? for a web professional who has an interest in flash but has been to caught up with the day to day of running a huge portal to get into it.
Regards
Connor / 01/01/2009 / 19:28 / http://kaliforniakidz.webz.com kaliforniakidz.weebly.com
im trying to find templates similar to Tigerbeat, bop, twist ,, like those liknd of magazines where there are like a bunch of pictures like not just squares but with graphic ,, and still be able to write on the cover!
Huggy / 03/02/2010 / 23:41
I'm pretty new to flash and html and i have a problem with attaching the images to its path i.e the link src code.. I have put a few pictures in a folder in my coverflow folder and i'm attaching it using the following code:
<photo>
<content src="images/firea.jpg" />
<caption content="Thom" />
<link src="My_Documents\Cover_flow_style_menu\Cover_Flow\images"/>
</photo>
When i publish the caption reads "undefined". And rest of the screen is blank.
Can somebody help me please
Huggy
