image gallery - simple but lots of pics

[jamesk]

Hi everyone.

I want to create an image gallery to display approx; 500 images.
It will need to be xml driven as i want captions to display.

The format will be a horizontal scroll displaying all images. There will be no thumbnails.

I guess the images will need to be loaded into an array. I would really appreciate some code that will auto generate the required number of movieclips for the images and then put them next to eachother from left to right accounting for both portrait and landscape with no gaps between images.

The images are in sequential order and are jpegs.

I have scoured many forums and tutorials and they all mainly focus on thumbnail driven gallerys. I just want my full sized images to load in a long line from left to right with the user allowed to scroll through them, left to right. If they could auto play/scroll as well that would be a bonus.

Any thoughts on approach to this?
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

thanks!
James

[atomic]

Don't think you'll find some example exactly done the way you'd like it to be...

Think you'll need to adapt a few others like...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_flash_photogallery.htm

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow.htm

Or maybe from Santino's thread here...

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=122160

Although his pictures are thumbnail sized, nothing is keeping you from using larger pictures, and this one seemed to be the closest to what you're looking for... Of course, again you'll need to adapt it to your own specs.

[jamesk]

Thanks Atomic. I have seen those before, but no help there.

The closest thing I have seen to what i want to do is PicStrip by Cool Focus.

http://www.coolfocus.net/relocate.asp?page=flash/examples/PicStrip/index.asp

However this is supplied as an applet - non editable.

Any other thoughts?

thanks guys and gals.

James