ThumbGrid

ThumbGrid  (Latest version: 2.0.2)

ThumbGrid complements SlideShowPro for Flash with an external, thumbnail-based navigation for browsing slideshow content. The component is written in ActionScript 3, and is designed to meet the demands of users interested in designing their own custom navigation (instead of using the one built into SlideShowPro for Flash). ThumbGrid is lightweight, flexible, and unlocks a limitless array of custom interface possibilities.

Size examples

Wide, skinny, short or tall

ThumbGrid can be any width and height. Just like SlideShowPro for Flash, you may transform the component's dimensions to anything you want. ThumbGrid will automatically adjust its layout to accommodate. Thumbnails are ordered on a grid, horizontally or vertically, across however many rows and columns you want. If more thumbnails are loaded than room allows, the thumbnails overflow into additional groups which can be accessed on mouse-over, your own external buttons, or Flash's UIScrollBar component.

Buttons

Navigate with your own buttons

Sometimes not having a feature is a feature. ThumbGrid focuses on the presentation of thumbnails, so it does not include embedded navigation buttons to re-skin, replace, or hide. You simply create your own, add them to your movie, and hook them up with some very light ActionScript. Or you can just use the mouse pointer to navigate the grid. It's up to you.

Gallery screen

Browse multiple albums and their content

New in ThumbGrid 2 is a gallery screen that displays previews of all the albums in a gallery. Thumbnails on the gallery screen can be sized differently from album content, as well as display inline album titles (more on that below). Click a thumbnail on the gallery screen, and the interface switches to present thumbnails of the selected album's content. Or, you can only show the gallery screen and let thumbnail clicks load selected albums in the SlideShowPro player (effectively using ThumbGrid as a gallery browser). Can show the gallery screen at startup, and navigate to it with your own external button (see above).

Titles

Display inline or layered titles

Also new in ThumbGrid 2 is the display of video and photo titles with thumbnails. You can display them inline, layered, or only show the layer style on mouse-over. Whichever style you choose, you have full control over their position and background color (mouse-over colors too), plus text size, typeface, alignment, and more.

Purchase

ThumbGrid is sold for $39 (single user) or $195 (corporate license). A Single User license allows you to install and use the product on two computers owned and used exclusively by you (for example, a desktop and laptop computer). A Corporate license can be shared between an unlimited number of employees at a single company / organization; even if the employees work at different physical locations.

Try before you buy!

Not sure if ThumbGrid is for you? Try it out with our fully functional free trial.

Pricing

Single User: $39
($15 upgrade from 1.0)

Corporate: $195
($75 upgrade from 1.0)

What's the difference between Single User and Corporate? See our "plain English" licensing.

Requirements

31 Adobe Flash CS3 or higher plus SlideShowPro for Flash (AS3 version).

Recent Examples

See for yourself some of the amazing things the SlideShowPro community has built using ThumbGrid in conjunction with SlideShowPro for Flash and our CMS system SlideShowPro Director.