A handful of SlideShowPro for Flash users have inquired when or if an ActionScript 3.0 compatible version of the component will be available. The answer? Yes, a 3.0 version is currently in development, and should be available sometime within the next few months.
The plan is for the 3.0 version to be exactly the same as the 2.0 version. As a matter of fact, you probably won’t be able to tell the difference between the two. The ActionScript API will be different, especially in regard to handling events broadcasted by the component, but for the most part it should work just the same.
Unfortunately, converting all the functionality that’s in SlideShowPro for Flash from 2.0 to 3.0 won’t be trivial. Entire sections of the component will need to be re-coded, which of course opens up plenty of ways for things to break. So it’ll simply take some time to transcode it all, and ensure it’s working properly before putting it out there. A public beta will be offered once we have something available for testing.
Photographer and model Elena Kulikova is using SlideShowPro for Flash on a number of pages at her web site, including most notably the Fashion gallery. SlideShowPro is sized nice and large, with images used for the album previews in the gallery that contain the album title set inside the images using the typeface of the site (a similar look can be obtained without adding text to the graphics by using the “Banner” Album Preview Style in SlideShowPro, and embedding a typeface for them to use). The photography is beautiful, and the crisp white/blue theme is very clean and pleasurable. Tons of amazing images, so be prepared to stay a while.
Note: some of the photography may be considered NSFW, depending of course on where you work, so be advised.
Now available for purchase/download is a brand new button pack for SlideShowPro for Flash users named “Pearl.” This pack is just like the popular “Quartz” pack in that it comes with 18 icons in both 16px and 24px sizes, with the smaller size optimized for use with the “Numbers” navigation link appearance and the larger optimized for “Thumbnails.” The set is comprised of 24-bit semi-transparent PNGs with subtle outlines and highlights that look great when set on top of all kinds of colors.
“Pearl” is just 9 bucks, and really easy to implement in your SWFs. Check out the “How Button Packs Work” screencast video for a bird’s eye view, or hop on over to the purchase page to download your copy.
Web design and development company Mavada is using SlideShowPro for Flash and SlideShowPro Director to manage and display multiple slideshows and interactive product overviews throughout their beautifully designed web site. You wouldn’t know it, but SlideShowPro is powering their portfolio overview, which includes SWF animations of their work and (through some fancy ActionScript) automatically moves the slideshow forward when each animation completes. You can also jump directly to a particular case study through the tabs on the right. SlideShowPro is also used on their tools page, where a clever side-navigation of software boxes is used to load particular SWF animations, as well as all of their client case study pages, including this one for product design company PDu. Here, more SWF animations are used, but they’re using SlideShowPro’s built-in auto-playback timer to step through / loop the product screenshots. Beautiful work all around.
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