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The app is a presentation layer for a Flickr account. The set viewer was originally a modified version of fsviewer, but I ended up rewriting it from the ground up in AS3 to make it jibe better with everything else. The "about" content is taken from the "describe yourself" section of a Flickr profile - the data is not available via the Flickr API so the app grabs the profile page html and regexes out the appropriate div.

A few things on which I could use input:
- Anyone have suggestions for ways to indicate that an object is draggable that don't involve page curling?
- How well does it work on smaller screens? The full-size photo view should scale down when resolution gets near 1024x768.
- The "about" content is a series of p elements wrapped in a div. Note the large amount of space between paragraphs. Any way to reduce this given that Flash CSS does not allow for vertical margins or padding?

// edit: Turns out the deal with the text spacing was due to Flickr replacing paragraph tags with line breaks. Fixorizoreded.

Really nice.

Only a couple of things, one of which you already asked about:

1. If you hadn't said that objects were draggable I wouldn't have know to try to read the 'about' content and would have thought it was just a design element.
2. When I drag a photo I can't drop it - it stays glued to my cursor - though the about and contact objects drop ok.
3. Small thing maybe - is it possible to make the sets work as a slide show or have another next/previous interface. I clicked on the right arrow expecting the next picture to be displayed, not the thumbnails to slide across. Only a small irritance really just laziness on my behalf....

Windows XP sp2 FF 2.0.0.12 if its relevant to point no 2

Thanks! Much appreciated. Warms the cockles of my cold embittered little raisin of a heart.

...would have thought it was just a design element.

Yeah, I'm struggling a bit with how to convey that they can be moved. Still working on that one.

As for the photos sticking, that seems to be due to the eased scale. Fortunately it doesn't happen all the time - only if a mouseDown is immediately followed by a quick drag. On the list of things to do.

...is it possible to make the sets work as a slide show or have another next/previous interface...

The left and right halves of the full-sized image will take you forward and backward. Thanks for letting me know you missed it, though. I'll add a cue.

Thanks again!

glad to help - it's been years since I did any flash work - is it possible to change the cursor to the 'hand' when it's over a draggable object?

Originally posted by: Technomancer
...is it possible to change the cursor to the 'hand' when it's over a draggable object?

Not only is it possible, I've now done it.

Seems to have fixed the drag and not drop problem too.

rockin!


i like it quite a bit!

Thanks! Glad you like it!

very nice site. i totally dig it!

very vagabond cool.

I like it a lot.

And that photographer's name seems oddly familiar...

The background only goes out to 1440, so at 1900x, I see the 267 logo all alone, on a white(ish) background, viz:



WinXP /FF

Thanks, all! Cockles warmed.

Originally posted by: mclarkson
The background only goes out to 1440, so at 1900x...

Sweet Jesus, man.

I'll see about tiling the bg.

Nice site! Great look and feel to it.

You really want to make the Contact and Info parts come to the top of the z-order when clicked on though, same as you do for the photos.

Originally posted by: DontBogartMe
Nice site! Great look and feel to it.

You really want to make the Contact and Info parts come to the top of the z-order when clicked on though, same as you do for the photos.

:three-itoldyouso-trees:

Originally posted by: ShEx

Originally posted by: DontBogartMe
Nice site! Great look and feel to it.

You really want to make the Contact and Info parts come to the top of the z-order when clicked on though, same as you do for the photos.

:three-itoldyouso-trees:

Yeah, about that...

The sheet for Contact is actually touching the background. If the shadow came from a runtime filter or was even uniform like that for About, there wouldn't be a problem. As it is, since it's fixed in place swapping z with other elements will throw off the sense of depth.

It's not that big of a problem - all it will take is a little potatochopping to separate the sheet from its shadow and hold it in a background clip in Contact that is scaled and moved as needed. Would've been done by now if I a) wasn't a lazy fuck and b) had thought anyone would notice.

not sure if it's only my PC but when I scroll the thumbs it doesn't allow you to stop part of the way. It's either all to the left or all to the right of the list.

What was suggested about dragging the About and Contacts pages and making them become the top layer. It's currently annoying to read them when they're covered by the images.

The look and feel of the overall site is great, it's nicely presented.

Originally posted by: tenPlus
not sure if it's only my PC but when I scroll the thumbs it doesn't allow you to stop part of the way. It's either all to the left or all to the right of the list.

I think it's scrolling a 'page' at a time, but you can really only tell on the larger sets, like 'London.'

Originally posted by: mclarkson
I think it's scrolling a 'page' at a time, but you can really only tell on the larger sets, like 'London.'

Tweaked the depth swapping and accounted for Candybeard Nopants' screen.

Originally posted by: baron ruhstoff
Tweaked the depth swapping and accounted for Candybeard Nopants' screen.