OK!

So, you want to make a Flash container with all your own graphics and buttons and load your Flash Panorama Player presentation into it? Here you go... a quick "embed pano 101".

What you'll end up with is a "skinned" player which displays your FPP panorama with an irregular outline (not a rectangle!) -- including buttons to load panoramas, buttons to pan/tilt/zoom, and a button to "go fullscreen".

Topping it all off you'll be able to go fullscreen and leave some of your buttons & graphics behind, then leave fullscreen and get your buttons back. This allows you to display what you want when you want it. The FPP XML in this example will show some thumbnails in fullscreen, which display larger photos.

As a bonus in this example, we will load lower resolution panoramas into the player when not in fullscreen; then, when going fullscreen, we will load higher resolution panoramas. Once loaded, these higher resolution panoramas will stay in the cache and be seen in fullscreen and not fullscreen. So, there's a lot packed into this 'little' example!

By popular demand, a plugin which lets you create a custom context menu (right click menu) for your FPP presentation! Insert as many menu items and links as you want (up to Adobe's limit of 15). And, it's free to download and use!

06/24/2008 update:

Well, it is just about time for an update to PanoSalado. I've made a few significant changes to the architecture, implemented the autorotator, and coded a "first-draft" implementation of custom cursors.

After some feedback, I've played with the demo settings for wiggle (image distortion) and shimmer (jagged pixelation). There is significantly less wiggle with these new settings. Shimmer has always been acceptable.

PanoSalado is making progress! I just added interface buttons. So now the demo has a fullscreen button, and pan/tilt/zoom buttons. And to complement the buttons (they look nice and all, but I wanted them to actually do something) I wrote in a couple of functions to spoof key down and up events, so now you can spoof keyboard interaction from an event command in the XML. I suppose I could write a function to spoof click and drag movement also.... The only "standard" panoramic interface button that is not currently working is the autorotator, which just needs a little more work.

This is starting to look like a real engine!

This is a continuation -- the latest release! -- of our Open Source Saga, whereby we are creating a set of libraries sat atop Papervision 3D... all with the intention of making it possible and desirable for the community at large to co-develop a Flash-based Panorama Viewer.

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PanoSalado now has its very own blog. For the latest news, source files and examples head on over to the PanoSalado Blog. You can also directly subscribe to the blog feed and never be without your PanoSalado.
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This is the first part of a multi part series of tutorials written by Zephyr Renner and Patrick Cheatham that will look at some of the advanced functionality a user can produce by getting beyond what can be accomplished with Flash Panorama Player's XML configuration files, and getting into programming Actionscript (AS3).

There are a number of ways to create Actionscript based interaction with FPP, and primary amongst them is with a plugin, so that is where we are going to start.

Submitted by FlashPanos fan and FPP user doubledrop.

This exercise has been written to help other novice users of FPP like myself, and who are struggling with the full screen function.

This is an example of creating an auto-presentation for your panorama. Contributed by Patrick Cheatham.

Using a short series of custom functions in your XML file, Flash Panorama Player can move your panorama through a series of pan, tilt and zoom movements.

This example also shows how to write and name your custom functions, keeping them grouped together in your global element. This way you always know where your functions are and how to target them.

AutoHorizon is a super flexible plugin which makes your virtual tour panorama go to its horizon after a predefined period of time (and more!). Automatically finds the shortest path to the horizon (no more whirling hotspots!). Contributed by Patrick Cheatham. Easy to use and powerful!