Since all my stuff is in a G2 gallery, I'd love to see what you've done so far.

Thanks!

you inadvertantly just clued me in to something i'd been wondering about. i'm new to Flash and i've been getting headache dealing with instances where I need to grab data that doesn't look like "this=that&who=what". using Loadvars for this stuff works, but there are little pains to deal with. looks like XML.load is the way to go!

thanks!

This is a easy class to use that lets you parse and read XML in Object/Array notation

http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=134

this rids you of all the confusing firstChild, sibling, nodeName stuff

I kind of brute forced some of the stuff - like resizing the photos to fit, etc.  If you know of anything more elegant I would be interested.  If you get the config panel done I would be interested to see it as well...

Sorry Morgan, I saw your post a few days ago, but forgot to upload the code until now.  I just futzed around with Doc's code until I got it to load my Gallery, so this could certainly still use some work.  I couldn't figure out how to get the load progress text working, so it's basically just a blank screen until the picture pops up.

class Gallery extends Object
{
    static var htmlURL = "http://yoursite.com/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&g2_show=title&g2_exactSize=320";

    var timeline:MovieClip;
    var loadingClip:MovieClip;

    function onLoadStart(target_mc:MovieClip)
    {
        trace("Your load has begun on movie clip = "+target_mc);
        var loadProgress:Object = this.loadingClip.getProgress(target_mc);
    }

    function onLoadProgress(target_mc:MovieClip, loadedBytes:Number, totalBytes:Number)
    {
        var percentage = Math.floor(loadedBytes/totalBytes*100);
        trace("Progress " + percentage);

        this.timeline.infoField._visible = true;
        this.timeline.infoField.text = percentage+"%";
    }

    function onLoadInit(target_mc:MovieClip)
    {
        trace("Init");

        if (target_mc._width > target_mc._height)
        {
            target_mc._width = 320;
            target_mc._height = 240;
            target_mc._x = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            target_mc._width = 240;
            target_mc._height = 320;
            target_mc._x = target_mc._x+40;
        }
    }

    function onLoadError(target_mc:MovieClip, errorCode:String)
    {
        this.timeline.infoField._visible = true;
        this.timeline.infoField.text = "ERROR CODE = "+errorCode;
        trace("Your load failed on movie clip = "+target_mc+"\n");
    }

    function Gallery(timelineIn)
    {
        this.timeline = timelineIn;

        this.timeline.infoField._visible = true;
        this.timeline.infoField.text = "Test"

        // Now load the files into their targets.
        // loads into movie clips
        this.loadingClip = timeline.createEmptyMovieClip("my_clip", this.timeline.getNextHighestDepth());

        var owner = this;

        var htmlFile:XML = new XML();
        htmlFile.ignoreWhite = true;
        htmlFile.onLoad = function(success)
        {
            if(success)
            {
                var imgUrl = htmlFile.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.attributes.src;
                var clipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
                clipLoader.addListener(owner);
                clipLoader.loadClip(imgUrl, owner.loadingClip);
            }
            else
            {
                trace("Failed");
            }
        }

        htmlFile.load(htmlURL);
    }

    static function main(timeline)
    {
        var init = new Gallery(timeline);
    }
}

EDIT: Never mind.  I just added a unique number to the end of the URL (getTimer() - so it changes on every fetch).  This bypasses any caching done by Flash.

Is anyone else here seeing a caching issue with this widget?  When I run on my PC (via FlashDevelop), I get the same picture over and over - unless I browse to the URL with my web browser and hit Refresh (at which point the Flash widget will get the 'new' picture over and over).

When running on my Chumby, it also always retrieves the same photo over and over (although it's a different one than what was on my PC - presumably because the Chumby has cached the photo somewhere).  I also noticed that the first time I ran it on my Chumby, there was quite a delay from the start of the widget until the photo was actually loaded.  Subsequent runs are much faster (also points to a cache).

Is there any way to tell the "htmlFile" stuff to NOT use any cache? (assuming that's what I'm seeing)

Thanks,

- Paulb

Any chance of someone putting a configuration widget and release it to the network?  I'm sure there would be a great deal of demand.

jvc,

Yes, I've seen the developer stuff.  However, whilst a huge fan and user of open source software, a developer I'm not :-)  I've told the wife she needs to find herself a Flash toolchain and start learning it :-D

I stand by my original comment - I'm sure there are a bunch of people who use Gallery who either haven't found this thread or haven't seen the light and got their hands on a Chumby yet.  If someone would wrap a configuration widget around this and post it to the Chumby network I'm sure you'd see it in the top ten list pretty quick.

Cheers,

R.

Hey, I got the configuration completed for Doc, and have given it to him. So, hopefully soon he will upload it to the public!

You guys rock!  I'm away from home at the moment, but I'm going to add it and see what happens (and if my wife notices!)

Thanks Doc for keeping up the work! Think I'm going to have to switch to Menalto now

Well - even stranger, i thought maybe there is some caching issue with the flash, so I fired up FireFox and it works great in the Virtual Chumby.  So at least it dosnt seem to be a bug in the widget.  I noticed also that some of the other widgets were acting strange in the Virtual Chumby under Internet Explorer as well.