Sure there are cheap treasures in WWW but still the concept is what you need to make it work.
Programming is a matter of substituting the right code to fit your needs.

Flash Kit is still the best resource for all your FLASH

but the concept you are thinking is something way beyond I knew.... HEHEHE!
I am sure there is still that can be substitute to something close to what you want to achieve.

Try also this

Happy Coding!

One of my favs.

Personally, I think that Flash is a great application for handling photo albums. That said, a photo album is definitely an intermediate-level application, because as CoffeeChef said, you will need to be using Flash, XML, and dynamically-loaded images and variables if you want to give the client the ability to update the photo album.

The photo album component that I've used most often is SlideShowPro. SlideShow Pro is hugely customizeable, easy to use, and well-documented. I've never had troubles with SlideShowPro galleries getting buggy or breaking or anything like that. It also supports video. They also sell SlideShowPro Director which is a very slick CMS that allows easy updates of the images, complete with automatic thumbnail generation. And the price tag is cheap ($29 each for SlideShowPro and Director). The only negative at all that I can think of for SlideShowPro is that it does not work in ActionScript 3 sites They say they're working on that but for now is AS2-only.

If you're dead set on building your own photo album from scratch, take a look at this photo album tutorial from Kirupa.com. It's a little old, but it is thorough and should give you a good handle on loading images dynamically via an XML file.

Good luck!

--eric

Quick update -- SlideShowPro has been updated to support AS3 as well as a bunch of other sweet features (such as a free PHP file which will automatically read all the contents in a particular folder and output the appropriate XML). Those guys just keep making a good product better

Also, I don't know if you've checked out FlashDen, but they've got a TON of Flash slideshows and they mostly cost in the range of $5-$10. Usually you get the source files and everything, so if you want to learn how to build galleries yourself it can be cost effective to buy one and then look at the code they did.

Rock on!

--eric

For your first question, yes in Flash, you pull in images but not have it be imbedded within Flash. Many flash gallery loads image from an external file (JPG, GIF, etc), and the images path are defined in a XML file.

There are lots of flash gallery templates you could find which comes with XML file support. IF you prefer not to touch XML coding, you might also consider a flash gallery software, which can import images and generate the XML and HTML code for you automatically.

Check the link for an idea : http://www.beapartofart.com/

Click the mosaic image on the left and check with the tool that was developed by me. All the thumbnail images are stored by the client in a folder and fetched by flash with the good presentation style in grid format.

My suggestion is Flash and PHP

Jquery has some great tools for building photo galleries.

Also check out smashingmagazine as they had some great tutorials a few weeks back

autoloading stuff in php or other server language is easy
one file in the folder
and auto thumbnails and display and slideshow with fade

http://panmental.de/public/programmi...pt%20in%20PHP/

Hello
I've made few photo galleries using Flash and they're all great and pretty easy to modify, especially if you use XML files to attach pictures (you can attach videos also).
I used video tutorials from www.cartoonsmart.com (you need to pay for those, but I think you can find them for free somewhere on the Net).
Cheers!