By Todd Dominey | Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 4:53 pm

ThumbGrid 2.1 released

By design, ThumbGrid leverages SlideShowPro for Flash for all the data and content it receives. This keeps ThumbGrid lightweight and ensures the two components are always in sync.

This also means (when used with SlideShowPro Director) that image size requests for ThumbGrid have to be made to SlideShowPro for Flash because it’s the component calling the shots. Well, no more.

With version 2.1, ThumbGrid now requests its own images from SlideShowPro Director; giving users perfectly formatted thumbnail images without any parameter edits to SlideShowPro for Flash. And it’s done without having to make two separate data assignments. ThumbGrid still uses the same data SlideShowPro for Flash uses, but it now makes its own separate content request from SlideShowPro Director to obtain images at the exact sizes it needs (for both the Gallery and Album screens). If you change the dimensions of ThumbGrid with setSize(), ThumbGrid will make another request from Director for a new set of images. This makes it much easier for new users of ThumbGrid to get perfectly formatted results right out of the box.

Additionally, ThumbGrid 2.1 changes the “Scroll Slow” Interactivity setting to “Scroll Normal” and revises “Scroll Slow” to now be slower, with rollover areas that are pushed further towards the component’s edges.

Also, album thumbnails on the Gallery screen now change to an “active” appearance when their content is loaded in SlideShowPro for Flash, and we’ve added “Active Filter” and “Rollover Filter” settings that (along with the existing “Inactive Filter” setting) provide filter options for every possible thumbnail state.

Registered users of ThumbGrid 2 can download this free update from account center. If you’re a ThumbGrid 1.0 user, you can purchase an ThumbGrid 2 upgrade for $15.