Flash and Umbraco package

June 07, 2006

As promised on the CodeGarden 06 conference I have created an umbraco package containing all files needed to run my presentation.

In my presentation I showed a flash image gallery where pictures are stored in umbraco and a how to build a flash website where all site structure and content are stored in umbraco.

Flash gallery example

This package is targeted to flash developers as a Flash starterkit.

And as mention on the conference use JSON instead of XML when working with flash since JSON parsing is faster than XML parsing and as a side effect you will produce much nicer code, and other developers can easily co/work/maintain your flash projects.

The package contains: Macros (6), files (11 including *.FLA (flash source)), Document Types (5), Templates (6), Stylesheets (1), Documents/Nodes (20+)

Howto: 

  1. Create a fresh umbraco site.
  2. Install the package (Go to 'Developer' section. Right click on 'Macros' -> choose 'Import Package')
  3. Upload some pictures in the format 500px*500x (for best result) into umbraco via the Media management, you can download some nice graphics to test with.
  4. Publich the whole site (Right click on the Frontpage)
  5. Edit the Gallery Example node and insert the FlashShowImagesFromMediaFolder macro.
  6. See the result instantly :-)
  7. Edit the Flash Website node and insert the FlashShowImagesFromMediaFolder macro
  8. See the result instantly :-)

Download Flash and Umbraco package
You can always just unzip the package to view the files

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