Flanture

Flanture is proud to present next flashMX project, Comics Album.

Album is simple but useful. It uses flash power to include dinamic content loaded from any xml file and combine it with already done comic image pages. Comic is usually separated in pages, and every page has different text clouds. This Album shows pages one by one. It has two navigation buttons. Main characteristic is that text can be changed from xml file, but also and text font, color, size. Xml file contain text clouds for every page.

Comic Album is great way to separate graphics from text in your comic creations. Text can be modified dinamicaly, font, it's size and color. Let's see how to use it. This is how looks like part of xml file that describes one comic page:

< page purl="page1.jpg" tboxn="1">

< tbox posx="420" posy="220" bw="300" bh="100" txt="Third text box!" fnt="Verdana" fnts="26" fc="0x000000" />

So, what we have here? Parametars for one comic page are:
purl - page url
tboxn - number of text boxes (clouds)

Parametars for one text box are:
posx - x position of text box
posy - y position of text box
bw - box width
bh - box height
txt - text
fnt - font face
fnts - font size
fc - font color (hexadecimal numbers)

That's it ! Simple, but nice. If you are interested in using Comics Album, please leave comment.

DOWNLOAD ALBUM FILES

My news thicker is little different. It can be hidden amongst other page flash elements, but on button press, it becomes wider, and news are displayed. News string comes from xml file. You can download zip (4kb) with swf and xml.

edit: link broken, download at HERE
download zip

I may convert it into component, later. This is created on first hand. I could spend more time on some nice skin, or on code which implements two rows of data with different colors, etc, but I didn't. Not yet. Like it?