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Any suggestions for loading pano.swf into a gallery?

Hi,

Thought I'd try over here first...

Any idea how to load the pano.swf into a gallery that displays swf files - i.e. any random off the shelf flash-based component that loads jpg/gif/png/swf/etc.

I've tried literally probably 30 different galleries with various failing results... everything from pure CS3/AS3 galleries to MX to Flash8, etc - no worky, ever.

Basically I'm just want to get to a purely flash, clean, way to display both still images and panos...

But - my question - how the heck can I load pano.swf (and 6 cubefaces) into an off the shelf gallery? Is there a simple wrapper or slice of code to allow pano.swf to be loaded like most other normal swf gets loaded? Is this too vague of a question?

TIA - Blake

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re: loading pano.swf into another swf

Hi Blake:

Loading your FPP's pano.swf directly into an off-the-shelf Flash gallery isn't going to happen.

Look at the embedPano.fla which comes with your install of FPP -- that's the basics of the code you'll need to load FPP into another Flash file.

Now, using embedPano as a start, you could create a simple wrapper for your FPP presentation. Then load the wrapper into a gallery.

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Patrick beats me to the

Patrick beats me to the answer again.... The only thing I can add to that is that you put code that loads/displays still images in embedPano and all you need to do to switch between a pano and an image is move the pano on/off the stage with panorama.setArea(...)

Zephyr

Loading Pano.swf into a gallery

Or using Pano2VR (Pano2QTVR) output files (one unit SWF panorama with Flash API (AS2 / AS3) http://gardengnomesoftware.com/wiki/Pano2VR_-_Flash_API)

This much useful, when is used one-by-one Panorama SWF file

My old Gallery - flash to flash concept - http://vr.mmgfx.com/oldgallery.html

and new iFace gallery - http://vr.mmgfx.com/

*I hope, discussion in this thread, not only for FPP .. If not, then - sorry - offtop

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hum@no.id wrote: Or using

hum@no.id wrote:

Or using Pano2VR (Pano2QTVR) output files (one unit SWF panorama with Flash API (AS2 / AS3) http://gardengnomesoftware.com/wiki/Pano2VR_-_Flash_API)

This much useful, when is used one-by-one Panorama SWF file

My old Gallery - flash to flash concept - http://vr.mmgfx.com/oldgallery.html

and new iFace gallery - http://vr.mmgfx.com/

*I hope, discussion in this thread, not only for FPP .. If not, then - sorry - offtop

Smile

No worries -- If this is something which might be of interest to other Pano2VR users, though, you might consider writing this up as a mini-tutorial forum topic in the Pano2VR area...

Cheers!

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FlashPanos.com creator, Panoramic Photographer
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re: loading pano.swf into another swf

The file embedPano.fla was not in the FPP install I downloaded. Does anyone know where I can download this file?

Missing embedPano.fla

mars wrote:

The file embedPano.fla was not in the FPP install I downloaded. Does anyone know where I can download this file?

Hi there:

It should be in the files which FPP emailed to you. Check in the "examples" folder!

Cheers,

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FlashPanos.com creator, Panoramic Photographer
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Loading Pano.swf into a gallery

Thanks for all the great input - I'm somewhat interested in the Pano2VR, but really love my FlashPanoramas, even with all the heartburn on this...

I've used embedPano to successfully make what is essentially a wrapper for pano.swf, switching between panos, controlling them, and such (like the original sample, but with my own panos, stage size, etc) - but still have had NO success loading embedPano.swf into a gallery!

I can double-click on embedPano.swf, view it perfectly, etc - just can't get it to load into a swf-capable gallery (AFComponents Image Thumbnail Gallery AS3). For that matter I can't get a pano2VR standalone swf to load with it either... (but I can load other AS3 swfs into it...)

Please - any further suggestions - code?

Thanks so much for all your help - I genuinely appreciate it!

Blake