Picklish, Flash Photo Galleries Made Simple
Picklish is a little photo gallery creator program I’ve been working on in the past weeks. My aim is to make a simple program that you can use to create slick-looking Flash photo galleries with simple drag and drop. The Picklish creator allows for automatic creation of Flash galleries that are portable and editable.
The creator is built with Flash Studio 8 and MDM Zinc 1.0, and uses its built-in image and file manipulation functions to automate the process of creating thumbnails and sizing your images for web deploy. It’s windows-only for now, and I hope to be able to release a Mac version if people find this tool useful.
So, I invite you to download the early alpha version of this little toy, and let me know what you think.
P.S. I’d like to thank Felix Turner and his SimpleViewer for inspiration. It’s a real work of art, and Felix is a mad genius.
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Hi,
Just wanted to inform you about this error I encountered, while dragging and dropping 39 images (all jpegs) into Picklish to create the album.
Check out the screenshot here http://www.atoarch.com/site/extensions/screenshot.png
Comment by William Ukoh — 10/13/2006 @ 10:47 am
There apparently seems to be a problem with the image. Here is another link
http://www.atoarch.com/site/extensions/error.htm
Comment by William Ukoh — 10/13/2006 @ 11:04 am
This error has been fixed in the latest release.
Comment by geoff — 10/27/2006 @ 10:52 am
When inserting the gallery into my site all I get is “Loading Info…” at the bottom. Any Ideas?
Comment by Nick — 12/22/2006 @ 5:51 pm
Nick,
Did you upload all of the assets? There should be an HTML file, an XML file, a SWF file, and all of your JPGs.
-g
Comment by geoff — 12/23/2006 @ 7:28 pm
I have a problem that appears when I drag and drop a picture to the app. A dialog box appears and says “MSM Zinc v1 Error Handler” …”Can’t allocate the DIB handle”. I thought it perhaps is just my computer, but it isn’t. My friends computer, at the work and my own have the same problem. Does anybody know what I can do to solve it? I have more than 1 GB memory so it can’t be that it is no space at the clipboard. See the screenshots:
http://www.grafisk-form.se/picklish_problem1.jpg
http://www.grafisk-form.se/picklish_problem2.jpg
Comment by Pontus — 12/24/2006 @ 6:59 am
Hmm… looks like I neglected to turn the resize number into an integer. I’ll look into a fix. I’m in the midst of an upgrade so it may take a while. Thanks for th report!
-Geoff
Comment by geoff — 12/25/2006 @ 12:58 pm
Does Picklish work with the Real Time Messaging Protocol ?
can the gallery.xml contain
vidsrc=”rtmp://192.168.136.128/stream.flv”
If not, how hard would it be to add that functionality ?
Comment by Stephen More — 2/14/2007 @ 4:08 pm
Stephen,
I’m not sure.. you could definately try editing the XML, change the HTTP source to RTMP and see if it plays. I’m not familiar with that protocol. If you point me to some resources I could look into adding it.
Comment by geoff — 2/14/2007 @ 5:40 pm
I tried modifying the XML but it did not work.
rtmp is the protocol used by the Flash Media Server.
Guide: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide_03.html
You can run your own streaming server to test it out: http://osflash.org/red5
Comment by Stephen More — 2/15/2007 @ 3:40 pm