Erik Ahrend
Posts: 88
Location: Canary Islands, Spain
Registered: 26 May 2005
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Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 8:51 GMT
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Interestingly I have started adding VR content to my blog recently and did a little survey: a poll asking my viewers to choose a format for pano display between Quicktime, Java and Flash. The poll has only been up for four days and will continue for another week or so, but for now the results are as follows: Java: 6% , Quicktime: 31%, Flash: 63%. The masses have spoken!!
I am now in the search of a flash pano player as the Pure player is very limited and not too easy to integrate..
I have put my eye on Flash Panorama player. I would like to hear from user experiences about the degree of customization of this player, but specially I would like to know if there is the option of customizing/personalizing the loading screen with one´s splash image or logo?
Thanks in advance!!
Erik.
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Ed 360
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Location: London, United Kingdom
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 12:12 GMT
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Erik,
You can customize the loading screen and do much more with FPP. The only limit is your knowledge of ActionScript/XML.
Have a look at the showcase section in the forum to see the kind of things you can do with it:
flashpanoramas.com/forum/
Ed
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Peter Stark
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Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 12:38 GMT
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I have "seen" many customisations in Flash Panorama Player though as Ed points out, it's limitations are set by your own knowledge. or in my case "lack of knowledge". It is not a program with a Graphical User Interface and personally I have struggled with it. But even with the struggles I find it quite irresistible. 
Ped
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Marcus
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Location: Somerset, United Kingdom
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 15:48 GMT
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ActionScript ?
I just bought FPP and I can't edit tour navigation menu without using ActionScript, which seams to be a part of Adobe's £575 Flash CS3 program. Is that right?
If so I guess I'll abandon FPP and look again at tourweaver. I thought FPP was a good price, but I didn't relise it was only half a tour creation software. Am I wrong?
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 16:03 GMT
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Marcus
You do not need anything else than a simple text editor to do XML files.
Flash is only needed if you want to go further and include the site you build into an existing flash site or if you want to make special flash element to use within the FPP viewer.
You can build everything with the existing plugins available in FPP and from other users.
Hans
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Marcus
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 16:54 GMT
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Thanks Hans,
I'll try looking again. The examples included a drop down box in the top right to navigate between the two sample panoramas. This seems to need ActionScript to edit. I guess you can achive similar effects using the .xml files and hotspot parameters.
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Hans Nyberg
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panocanarias
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Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Registered: 22 Oct 2006
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 5 Aug 2008 at 18:14 GMT
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Erik,
beside FPP (flashpanoramas pro) there is another player out there which is/works quite similar (quality, plugins, xml ...)
You may have a look at krpano [www.krpano.com/index.php?lang=en].
Klaus, the developer, plans to release a Gui soon.
And, don't forgett to have a look at Pano2VR [www.gardengnomesoftware.com/?lang=en] which offers flash-output too and comes with (some kind of) gui, already.
Well, and of course, panosalado [www.flashpanos.com/blog/79], the new open-source flashplayer!
All four are highly customizable and quality is pretty much the same (imho).
Saludos desde Tenerife,
Klaus (panocanarias)
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Erik Ahrend
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Re: Flash Panorama Player customizing?
Posted: 6 Aug 2008 at 16:02 GMT
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Thanks for all the kind replies!! It might be the right place and momento to ask for some help here..
I am currently embeding some panoramas in my blog. I use Immervision´s Pure Tools and have succesfully embeded Java and Quicktime panos, but have been unsuccesfull with the Flash ones (to the point that I am currently using Viewat.org for that). My code and programming knowledge is VERY limited (I am basically a photographer..) The script I currently use (Flash, produced by Pure Tools) is for panos with all the files in the same directory. It is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<script src="AC_OETags.js" language="javascript"></script>
<body>
<center>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Version check for the Flash Player that has the ability to start Player Product Install (6.0r65)
var hasProductInstall = DetectFlashVer(6, 0, 65);
// Version check based upon the values defined in globals
var hasRequestedVersion = DetectFlashVer(9, 0, 0);
if (isIE)
{
document.write("<object classid='clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' id='PurePlayer' width='750' height='450' codebase='fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current...,0,0,0'> <param name='movie' value='PurePlayer.swf' /> <param name='allowScriptAccess' value='sameDomain' /> <param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /> <param name='flashvars' value='panorama=tresreyes2000.ivp' /> </object>");
}
else
{
// Check to see if a player with Flash Product Install is available and the version does not meet the requirements for playback
if ( hasProductInstall && !hasRequestedVersion )
{
// MMdoctitle is the stored document.title value used by the installation process to close the window that started the process
// This is necessary in order to close browser windows that are still utilizing the older version of the player after installation has completed
// DO NOT MODIFY THE FOLLOWING FOUR LINES
// Location visited after installation is complete if installation is required
var MMPlayerType = (isIE == true) ? "ActiveX" : "PlugIn";
var MMredirectURL = window.location;
document.title = document.title.slice(0, 47) + " - Flash Player Installation";
var MMdoctitle = document.title;
AC_FL_RunContent(
"src", "playerProductInstall",
"FlashVars", "MMredirectURL="+MMredirectURL+'&MMplayerType='+MMPlayerType+'&MMdoctitle='+MMdoctitle+"",
"width", "750",
"height", "450",
"align", "middle",
"id", "PurePlayer",
"quality", "high",
"bgcolor", "#ffffff",
"name", "PurePlayer",
"allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
"allowFullScreen","true",
"type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"pluginspage", "www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"
);
} else if (hasRequestedVersion) {
// if we've detected an acceptable version
// embed the Flash Content SWF when all tests are passed
AC_FL_RunContent(
"name", "PurePlayer",
"src", "PurePlayer",
"width", "750",
"height", "450",
"id", "PurePlayer",
"flashvars",'panorama=tresreyes3000.ivp',
"allowFullScreen","true",
"allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
"type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"pluginspage", "www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"
);
} else { // flash is too old or we can't detect the plugin
var alternateContent = '<font color="#BB0000">Your Flash Player has to be updated.'
+ ' This content requires the Adobe Flash Player.</font> '
+ '<a href=www.adobe.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash</a>';
document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content
}
}
// -->
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
id="PurePlayer" width="750" height="450"
codebase="fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current...,0,0,0">
<param name="movie" value="PurePlayer.swf" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name='flashvars' value='panorama=tresreyes3000.ivp' />
<embed src="PurePlayer.swf"
width="640" height="480" name="PurePlayer" align="middle"
play="true"
loop="false"
quality="high"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
allowFullScreen="true"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
flashvars="panorama=tresreyes3000.ivp"
pluginspage="www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
</noscript>
<br>
<br>
<div class="warning">
<br>
<br>
</div>
</center>
</body>
</html>
Now I need to know how to modify this code so I can embed a panorama having the IVP and the Flash player in a remote directory. I ignore what the code would be to "call" the player and the panorama contents that are based in a different server...
Excuse me if my question seems stupid, I am lost here..
Any help?
Thanks in advance..
Erik.
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