FlashPanos

OK!

So, you want to make a Flash container with all your own graphics and buttons and load your Flash Panorama Player presentation into it? Here you go... a quick "embed pano 101".

What you'll end up with is a "skinned" player which displays your FPP panorama with an irregular outline (not a rectangle!) -- including buttons to load panoramas, buttons to pan/tilt/zoom, and a button to "go fullscreen".

Topping it all off you'll be able to go fullscreen and leave some of your buttons & graphics behind, then leave fullscreen and get your buttons back. This allows you to display what you want when you want it. The FPP XML in this example will show some thumbnails in fullscreen, which display larger photos.

As a bonus in this example, we will load lower resolution panoramas into the player when not in fullscreen; then, when going fullscreen, we will load higher resolution panoramas. Once loaded, these higher resolution panoramas will stay in the cache and be seen in fullscreen and not fullscreen. So, there's a lot packed into this 'little' example!

This is a continuation -- the latest release! -- of our Open Source Saga, whereby we are creating a set of libraries sat atop Papervision 3D... all with the intention of making it possible and desirable for the community at large to co-develop a Flash-based Panorama Viewer.

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PanoSalado now has its very own blog. For the latest news, source files and examples head on over to the PanoSalado Blog. You can also directly subscribe to the blog feed and never be without your PanoSalado.
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Submitted by FlashPanos fan and FPP user doubledrop.

This exercise has been written to help other novice users of FPP like myself, and who are struggling with the full screen function.

This is an example of creating an auto-presentation for your panorama. Contributed by Patrick Cheatham.

Using a short series of custom functions in your XML file, Flash Panorama Player can move your panorama through a series of pan, tilt and zoom movements.

This example also shows how to write and name your custom functions, keeping them grouped together in your global element. This way you always know where your functions are and how to target them.

The latest news, source and examples are at the PanoSalado Blog.

We still love using Flash Panorama Player -- who doesn't? -- but we're also tinkerers... The growing prevalence of 360° panoramas being delivered on news media Web sites and a few other places have surprised us by being (for the most part) sat atop of the Papervision 3D engine.

Over in the Flash Panorama Player Forums a while back, user jaaaab posted a "Simple Compass Tutorial". I've extended his simple solution to show you how to have a rotating nadir image! Demonstration links are below, and links to source files are included at the end.

• Rotating Nadir Cap, using a SWF & jaaaab's method
• Rotating Nadir Cap, using modified method
• Stationary Nadir Cap, using modified method