Cheers

Can you give me any pointers on how to implement a link for each image and have all the navigation(back, pause/play, forward) work at all times?

I can’t even seem to find info on the functions preBG() and Control().

Is Control() part of the MovieClass which Sprite inherits? Is that right?

AS3 has got me lost…

Nice slide-show.
was able to customize buttons, size etc…
Need to add more images than just three. Is this as simple as adding more images into the “images” folder and keeping the naming sequence? I tried this, but still keep cycling through the first 3 images. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I looked at your site but have to wonder if the images should not be loaded continually rather than each time so you have to see the wine bottle or any preloader…? Preloaders have virtually little design value and are only feedback to the viewer if they are not seeing anything change on their screen.

Even though the wine bottle is a cool preloader graphic it seems any preloader takes away from the clients intended display material.

So my question would be if you could load all the images so there was no need to see the preloader unless the images were not available (a slow connection for instance)? Maybe preloading constantly is not a good use of resources so we “have” to preload each time an element is called?

Regardless, if your new code solves the background image showing problem, good job!

First change line 227 to this and add line 228:
TweenLite.to(child2, 1.5, {alpha:1});
TweenLite.to(child1, 1.0, {alpha:0});

Now, change line 234 to this and add line 235:
TweenLite.to(child1, 1.5, {alpha:1});
TweenLite.to(child2, 1.0, {alpha:0});

This will make the back image fade out while the new image fades in.

Two other things I found that were very nice was to comment out the preloader width and height. The only trick is to make sure the preloader is not above the menu so you willneed to re-position the controls, preloader or both.

the other thing I found is, the controls MC was a great place to add a skin for the slideshow.

Finally you can fix the preloader to make frame 1 blank in the preloader MC then add

_preBg.gotoAndStop(1);

just after line 238. After the slides have been loaded the preloader won’t show up.

You can see how it came out at http://12seasonswinebar.com

Excellent work, Thanks!
Quince

Download the files here

How about adding the means to have a title for each image displayed over the top and pulled from the XML?

Thanks for being generous with your code. Much appreciated.