Flash content in EE

[Lina]

Is it possible to integrate Flash content into the database of EEngine?

Lina

[Evanrich]

i was also wondering this... i assume maybe you could design header and footer parts in flash... but i dunno about the other stuff

[TomKa]

There is a flash.php in the folder viewerstyles, but Pekka has still to integrate the code into EEngine, maybe after the release of the final version 1.5 (Pekka - can you hear us... 8-).

Anyway, what about a small slideshow as a flash-file in the description of the gallery. This adds a moving element to the entry page, and I think it must be possible to integrate the code into the description without problems.

[Pekka]

There are two areas for flash content:

1. user interface

EE UI works with templates, but the templates use html (e.g. image tags). To make templates really generic I think one should code the primary output as XML and then convert XML to html or flash or anything needed.

As 99% of this this is only decorative and very laborous to do and test, I'm not putting this very high on my list.

But what I am really interested in is replacing specific parts of UI with optional flash outputs, like dropdown menus.

2. Photo display

EE has a viewerstyle system which is a code block to display images with different methods. What I have not had time to do yet is to do a proper support for other than image extensions (hacks are done already, like with .jpe).

Basically this will be done so that:

1. you upload a JPG image for thumbnails and basic database insertion.

2. Then you upload the flash file next to the big JPG (JPG served for those who do not have flash?).

3. In photo editor (or powertools) you set that photo to use "Flash movie viewer" or "Flash photo display" and EE will load a proper viewerstyle which will handle the correct display on photo page.

To do above flash'ed image viewer (or slideshow) I would need to have a flash file displaying one image without any extras, which then would accept URL parameter via actionscript (fed by the SQL/PHP/html).

All I need is some flash tools and some time. :)

[TomKa]

1. user interface
At http://www.scriptocean.com/ there are some simple wizards to create basic flash menus.

2. Photo display
You can test my flashpano, in the file DSCN0011a.swf is the reference to download a panorama preview (DSCN0011a-0.swf) and the pano in full resolution (DSCN0011a-1.swf).
The zipfile with the flashpano is at www.panoviews.com/files/flashpano.zip