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XML Flash Gallery Maker - Web Gallery Creator

Besides creating standalone SWF Flash slideshows, Photo Flash Maker also provides an easy solution for users to make their Flash galleries, web galleries and web albums.

Don't let the "XML-driven" scare you off. Making XML-driven Flash gallery is not that complicated. You can do it in an easy way With Photo Flash Maker. Everyone can do that.

Our Flash gallery maker is very intuitive, slick-looking, and it's extremely easy to navigate, allowing users to create their first Flash gallery in a matter of minutes, turning photos into XML-driven Flash gallery.

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The Flash gallery you see below is created with XML-driven Advanced Flash template. Click the Flash to see more Flash gallery showcases.

 

When you publish an XML Flash slideshow, Photo Flash Maker creates a set of source files and folders for the slideshow (see below:)

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In the output folder, you will see several files and folders. These are the data source and assets that keep the flash slideshow play properly when it's embedded into website. The slides folder has the images which have their respective thumbnails present in the thumbs folder. The details of these images are listed in the XML document.

The code contained in the slides.xml document is shown as below (for example) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <flash_parameters copyright="anvsoftPFMTheme"> <preferences> <global> <basic_property movieWidth="600" movieHeight="400" html_title="Title" loadStyle="Bar" startAutoPlay="true" backgroundColor="0xffffff" anvsoftMenu="false" hideAdobeMenu="false" photoDynamicShow="false" enableURL="true" transitionArray=""/> <title_property showTitle="false" photoTitleColor="0x808080" hoverPhotoTitleColor="0x000000"/> <music_property path="" stream="true" loop="true"/> <photo_property topPadding="4" bottomPadding="104" leftPadding="4" rightPadding="4"/> <border_property borderSize="1" borderColor="0xc0dcc0"/> <properties enable="true" backgroundColor="0xffffff" backgroundAlpha="30" cssText="a:link{text-decoration: underline;} a:hover{color:#ff0000; text-decoration: none;} a:active{color:#0000ff;text-decoration: none;} .blue {color:#0000ff; font-size:15px; font-style:italic; text-decoration: underline;} .body{color:#ff5500;font-size:20px;}" align="top"/> </global> <thumbnail> <basic_property backgroundColor="0xfffbf0" buttonColor="0x0080ff" borderColor="0xa0a0ff"/> </thumbnail> </preferences> <album> <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0001.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0001.jpg" transition="54" panzoom="1" URLTarget="1" phototime="2" transitiontime="1" url="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com/showcase.html" title="Night" width="592" height="292"/> <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0002.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0002.jpg" transition="54" panzoom="1" URLTarget="1" phototime="2" transitiontime="1" url="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com/showcase.html" title="City" width="592" height="292"/> <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0003.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0003.jpg" transition="54" panzoom="1" URLTarget="1" phototime="2" transitiontime="1" url="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com/showcase.html" title="Night and the City 03" width="592" height="292"/> <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0004.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0004.jpg" transition="54" panzoom="1" URLTarget="1" phototime="2" transitiontime="1" url="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com/showcase.html" title="Night and the City 04" width="592" height="292"/> <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0005.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0005.jpg" transition="54" panzoom="1" URLTarget="1" phototime="2" transitiontime="1" url="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com/showcase.html" title="Night and the City 05" width="592" height="292"/> </album> </flash_parameters>

In the fs_aux.html file, your will find HTML code for embedding the Flash gallery to website:

To incorporate the XML Flash slideshows into an existing webpage, you can manually adding the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags to the existing page. The embed code for the above Flash slideshow is (file path has been modified to relfect the relative directory of the SWF and XML files):

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="600" height="400"> <param name="movie" value="/slideshow-showcase/advanced_bottom_thumbnail/advanced_bottom_thumbnail.swf?xml_path=/slideshow-showcase/advanced_bottom_thumbnail/slides.xml" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="_flashcreator" value="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com" /> <param name="_flashhost" value="http://www.go2album.com" /> <embed src="/slideshow-showcase/advanced_bottom_thumbnail/advanced_bottom_thumbnail.swf?xml_path=/slideshow-showcase/advanced_bottom_thumbnail/slides.xml" width="600" height="400" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </object>

How to publish your Flash gallery to website?

Step 1. Open the PFM-created HTML document in a text or HTML editor.

Step 2. Open the existing webpage and paste the <object> and <embed> tags into the desired location in the body of the page. This can also be pasted into a table cell or frame.

Step 3. Upload the webpage and Flash files to your Web server.

Or you can choose another way to publish your Flash gallery to website more easily, using our free web album hosting service Go2Album.

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Photo Flash Maker is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and the latest Windows 7. And before you pay out real money to buy this Flash web gallery creating software, you got a change to try it out. Just download it from our website to use it to create HTML web gallery and web album.

There is no Mac version of XML Flash gallery creator yet. However, if you would like to use the Flash web gallery software on Mac and OS X, you may try Parallels, a third-party utility that can enable you to use Windows programs like Flash web gallery maker and Mac apps side-by-side without rebooting.

Creating SWF slideshow with or without XML

Compared to other plug-ins such as Java, Acrobat Reader, QuickTime, or Windows Media Player, the Flash Player has a small install size, quick download time, and fast initialization time. However, care must be taken to detect and embed the Flash Player in (X)HTML in a W3C-compliant way.

programs such as swfmill, SWFTools, and MTASC provide tools to create SWF files, but do so by compiling text, actionscript or XML files into Flash animations.

.xfl files are XML-based project files that are equivalent to the binary .fla format. Flash authoring software uses XFL as an exchange format in Flash CS4. It imports XFL files that are exported from InDesign and AfterEffects.

.flp files are XML files used to reference all the document files contained in a Flash Project. Flash Projects allow the user to group multiple, related files together to assist in Flash project organization, compilation and build.

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