Advanced Flash Album Generator.NET for Visual Studio
Ever wanted to have a nifty flash gallery for all your photos? With Advanced Flash Album Generator.NET you can do that quickly and easy! This component will resize your photos, create thumbnails and put them in an amazing Flash Album. Retrieve images dynamically form your database, XML files or other data sources from Visual Studio. The album is generated from Visual Studio within a few clicks! All your photos will be displayed online instantly in a cool Flash Photo Viewer that is customizable to your site design.
For the entire list of customizable properties and available methods read the API reference.
| DNzone.com | |
| Language: | C#, VB.NET, Jscript.NET, J# |
| Platform: | Web |
| Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Web Developer 2005, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition |
Dynamically Modifying the Flash Album Generator
Introduction
Besides statically customizing your album or defining a DataSource, you can also dynamically create a album, change the properties and manage the list of images in the album. Perform these two steps:
1. Create a new ASP.NET
Web Site
Create a new or open an existing ASP.NET Web Site (we use Visual
C#).
2. Add the control
to the page
Switch to Design view and drag the 
icon
from the DNzone tab (in the Toolbox) into the div on your
page.
3. Set the DynamicData Property to true
Set the DynamicData property in the Data Category of the property inspector of Visual Studio to true.
Now you can dynamically manage the Flash Album. For example, you can modify the properties of the Album. The following section gives an overview of the available properties.
Customizable properties
To modify the appearance of your gallery you can dynamically change the following properties:
GalleryTitle
Description |
The title of the Flash Album |
Type |
String |
Default value |
Gallery |
TitleSize
Description |
The font size of the text used in the album |
Type |
int |
Default value |
12 |
ThumbsColumnsNo
Description |
The number of columns to be used to display the album thumbnail |
Type |
int |
Default value |
5 |
ThumbsRowsNo
Description |
The number of rows to be used to display the album thumbnail |
Type |
int |
Default value |
2 |
ThumbsPadding
Description |
The amount of padding to used for the album thumbnails |
Type |
int |
Default value |
10 |
ThumbsWidth
Description |
The maximum width of the thumbnails |
Type |
int |
Default value |
150 |
ThumbsHeight
Description |
The maximum height of the thumbnails |
Type |
int |
Default value |
150 |
ThumbsRounding
Description |
The amount of rounding to apply to the thumbnails in pixels |
Type |
int |
Default value |
5 |
ThumbsShadow
Description |
The amount of shadowing to apply to the thumbnails in pixels |
Type |
int |
Default value |
0 |
ThumbsAlpha
Description |
The opacity of the thumbnails |
Type |
int |
Default value |
30 |
ImageScale
Description |
The size of the images as a percentage of the album size |
Type |
int |
Default value |
70 |
TextShadow
Description |
Whether to apply shadowing to the text in the gallery in pixels |
Type |
bool |
Default value |
false |
ImageFit
Description |
If true, images will be stretched the maximum image width and height |
Type |
bool |
Default value |
false |
NavPosition
Description |
The location of the thumbnails relative to the images |
Type |
string |
Default value |
false |
Allowed values |
"Bottom", "Top", "Left" and "Right" |
TextColor
Description |
The color of the text in the album |
Type |
System.Drawing.Color |
Default value |
Color.Gray |
AlbumBgColor
Description |
The background color of the album |
Type |
System.Drawing.Color |
Default value |
Color.White |
FrameColor
Description |
The color of the image frame, viewed icon, load bars and thumbnail arrows |
Type |
System.Drawing.Color |
Default value |
Color.Gray |
ActiveFrameColor
Description |
The color of the currently selected image frame, viewed icon, load bars and thumbnail arrows |
Type |
System.Drawing.Color |
Default value |
Color.Silver |
FrameWidth
Description |
The width of the image frame in pixels |
Type |
int |
Default value |
1 |
ActiveFrameWidth
Description |
The width of the currently selected image frame in pixels |
Type |
int |
Default value |
3 |
Duration
Description |
The duration of the animation |
Type |
int |
Default value |
1 |
Transition
Description |
The effect to apply for image transitions |
Type |
DNzone.FlashAlbumGenerator.TransitionEffect |
Default value |
Transition.Fade |
Working with the images
Flash Album provides several methods that allow you to modify the collection of images in the gallery.
The following methods can be used to add or delete individual images.
AddImage(string relPath)
Description: |
Adds an image from a path relative to the website's root |
Parameter relPath |
The path relative to the website's root |
AddImage(string relPath, string desc)
Description: |
Adds an image from a path relative to the website's root |
Parameter relPath |
The path relative to the website's root |
Parameter desc |
The description for the image |
AddImage(string relPath, string desc, string link)
Description: |
Adds an image from a path relative to the website's root |
Parameter relPath |
The path relative to the website's root |
Parameter desc |
The description for the image |
AddImage(string relPath, string desc, string link, string targ)
Description: |
Adds an image from a path relative to the website's root |
Parameter relPath |
The path relative to the website's root |
Parameter desc |
The description for the image |
AddImagesFromFolder(string relPath)
Description: |
Adds all images from the specified folder |
Parameter relPath |
The path of the folder relative to the website's root |
You can also modify the collection of images directly through the following methods:
GetImages()
Description: |
Returns a List<AlbumGeneratorImageInfo> representing the list of Images in the gallery |
SetImages(List< AlbumGeneratorImageInfo> imgs)
Description: |
Returns a List<AlbumGeneratorImageInfo> representing the list of Images in the gallery |
Parameter Images |
a List<AlbumGeneratorImageInfo> representing the list of Images in the gallery |
These methods use the AlbumGeneratorImageInfo struct which has the following specification:
relativeImagePath |
The path relative to the website's root |
description |
The description for the image |
link |
The link to which the user is forwarded when he or she clicks the image |
linkTarget |
The linktarget property of the link |
width |
The preferred width for the image |
height |
The preferred height for the image |
The following example shows how to modify the gallery dynamically:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
AdvFlashAlbumGeneratorControl1.GalleryTitle = "DNzone Flash Album";
AdvFlashAlbumGeneratorControl1.AddImage("images/image1.jpg", "the
first image", "http://www.google.com", "_self");
AdvFlashAlbumGeneratorControl1.AddImagesFromFolder("images");
}
Note that this example requires the album control to be named "AdvFlashAlbumGeneratorControl1". If your control has a different name, change it accordingly. For the entire list of customizable properties and available methods read the API reference.
