Basic tutorial

In order to complete this tutorial you will need Flash Image Gallery installer. You can download demo version.

1. After installation, drag and drop the component from the Component Panel to the Stage.
2. Save the Flash document as gallery.fla.
3. Open your favorite text editor such as Notepad and copy-paste following xml code.
   
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<pictures>
   <item>
      <name>Dark Forest.jpg</name>
      <description>Stormy autumn night in Norway.</description>
   </item>
   <item>
      <name>Deep Forest.jpg</name>
      <description>Forest in the back with a dark rainy day.</description>
   </item>
   <item>
      <name>Lonely tree.jpg</name>
      <description>Lonely tree</description>
   </item>
   <item>
      <name>Forest.jpg</name>
      <description>Wattagan Mountains North of Sydney</description>
   </item>
</pictures>
* you should enter names of your own images in the name tag.
4. You can save it in the same directory where you saved gallery.fla file or in some other location on the same domain, just be sure to enter correct paths in the properties panel, as on picture below. Paths are relative to the gallery component.

5. In the first frame of gallery.fla file, where component resides, enter following line:
   
   igp.init();
   
   where igp is an instance name of the component. This function will initialize component in the page.
6. Enter images and thumbs sizes in apropriate fields:

7. Image Gallery Pro works best if the Frame Rate of the movie is changed to some higher value than default settings. Try to experiment with some values but remember: higher value, smoother transitions.
8. That's it... Now you can test the movie with "Control > Test Movie" or "CTRL + ENTER".