With this technical recipe, you will create an image gallery populated through the use of an XML file. This makes updating your image gallery with new images very easy for anyone, including your clients who may not have any experience with ActionScript. That said, you want to have a little experience with ActionScript for this one.
If you would like to see a preview of the completed gallery, open gallery_xml.fla
in theChapter 3 folder.
Have images available to you and collected in one folder. JPG files will work well. Is it usually best if the images have the same dimension. There are images available to you in theChapter 3 images folder if you prefer that. You will also need access to a text editor, such as OpenOffice, to create the XML file.