Retro Flex: A fluid photo browser written in Flex 1.5
November 21st, 2006
[demo]: http://www.elyandpilar.com/wpg/flex/app.php#album=http%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eelyandpilar%252Ecom%252Fblog%252F%253Falbum%253D2%2526format%253Dxml
One more post before I head out for Thanksgiving. Some of you have probably seen this already, but for the rest of you reading, this is a photo browsing app I wrote shortly after we released Flex 1.5. Unfortunately I don’t have the source for this one available (well, actually I do, but It’s really too ugly to be posting publicly, and it’s in AS2 anyway).
[Flex 1.5 Photo Browser][demo]
This was my first attempt to show people that Flex doesn’t have to be all about grids and panels.
Worth noting:
* built in Flex 1.5
* written in Actionscript 2, for player 7
* the flex app loads all of its data from XML over HTTP.
* The XML is being served via a custom extension to wordpress that manages the albums in the wordpress database.
* the app implements deep linking. Notice as you browse around the URL changes you can copy and paste the url into another browser and jump directly to the album/photo.
* (yes, the urls are ugly, but that’s because the app was written to work with static XML files as well as the Wordpress back end. So they encode the full url of the current album and image being displayed).
November 21st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Your photo browser rocks!! Good work!
November 21st, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Wow! You do beautiful work!
Where can I learn to design Flex apps the way that you do? Is there a degree program somewhere? Or even a book I can buy?
You do serious artistry.
Thanks!
g
November 21st, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Amazing…really …nice work !!! :)
November 21st, 2006 at 8:07 pm
This looks a lot like Airtight interactives Postcard Viewer http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/
Were you inspired by them?
-AD
November 21st, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Ali — yes, absolutely, this was directly inspired by Airtight’s viewer. Thanks for posting…it was a long time ago, and I couldn’t remember where I had seen it. Those guys (That guy?) have done a bunch of great stuff.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:35 pm
The link you provided cause FP9_plugin_beta_112006 and firefox crash as soon as I click the link. I’m running Firefox 2.0 on Ubuntu6.10, and the FP9 beta is installed as root.
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:21 am
hiugong.gwok – you probably need to get an authorised copy of the OS rather than one you bought at a market stall for $2!
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:30 am
Any chance we will see a Flex 2 version?
December 13th, 2006 at 3:33 am
Gr8 job ….
really sizzling….
Extraordinary effects…
good imaginations…
Thanks
Imtiyaz.m.s
January 17th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Hi Ely, you’ve got some great flex apps here. I’m looking for a great flex developer for a graphics-heavy flex app I’m developing for my startup. Any chance you are looking for a small side-job???
February 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Great Job. I am from argentina sorry about my english. I need download or buy this gallery to put on my website. Please contactme
July 9th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Hi Ely,
is it possible to publish the source even if it is as you say “messy”? I would like to see how this is done and try to write my own. If you still prefer not to post it, is it possible to send it to my mail?
Thanks
John
October 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Hi Ely,
You’ve got lots of great examples on your site. I like fluid photobrowser! As John mentioned, can you post the source for it? Or maybe send it to my email? I’m learning Flex now and that would be a good starting point for me as I’m looking to update my photoalbum to Flex…
Thanks,
Maks.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
the retro photo viewer is AWESOME!
any chance you could post the source?
thanks Ely.
-aly