Flex application?

dfxordfxor Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
Is it possible to integrate a Flex application (html or swf file) for a specific SmugMug gallery?
The particular application I would like to integrate provides a convenient means of navigating a large collection of photos. Relationships between photos and other entities are located in a few relatively small xml files that will need to be read. Ideally the viewers last point of reference could be saved, as it works in the current application. The gallery will typically contain a very large number of photos.

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  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited September 1, 2008
    Theoretically, it is possible using API access...this is how our flash apps work.

    But I'd need to know more details to fully understand what you are trying to do.

    Cheers,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
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  • dfxordfxor Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited September 2, 2008
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    devbobo wrote:
    Theoretically, it is possible using API access...this is how our flash apps work.

    But I'd need to know more details to fully understand what you are trying to do.

    Cheers,

    David

    Thanks for the quick response, David.

    One xml file defines relationships between people who appear in the photos (father, mother, spouse, etc.). Another xml file indicates who appears in which photos. Each panel contains people from 3 or 4 generations in thumbnails, with one person in a focal spot. Clicking on any person, moves that person into the focal spot. If you leave and come back, the last person who was in the focal spot will reappear in that focus. Various alternative views of the photos in the gallery are available by clicking on obvious controls. Most of the app is written in ActionScript. With the current version, there is a photos directory containing all the photos and a data directory containing the xml files. I have generated both an html and an swf executable.
    Is there some doc on the API access or a small example?

    Cheers,

    Dan
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