Flash 10 Coverflow

Stephen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:22:41 +0000

The last version of the coverflow was made several years ago and its still quite popular (over 700,000 downloads on just version 2). So I decided to make a new version, this new version takes advantage of the new Flash 10 3D capabilities, which is perfect for this particular use. It allows for the Flash to load faster (because its not using Papervision3D) and most important preform much faster. Now users can add a lot more items to the coverflow and still have very snappy performance.

Here are the benefits over the previous coverflow version:

Improved Preformance
Faster Load Time
Easy Modification through XML
AS3 Standardized Code
Easy Class Structure

And of course you still get many of the benefits of the last version, such as the XML Based (Images, Links and Titles).

I have recently updated the code to help people that are not so familiar with Flash, but still want to use the code. I have included a few flash vars, if they are not provided there are defaults in the code. Here are the flash vars:

flashvars.xmlPath = “xml/data.xml”;
flashvars.backgroundColor = “0×000000″;
flashvars.labelColor = “0xFFFFFF”

“xmlPath” is the path to the XML file.
“backgroundColor” is the color of the background.
“labelColor” is the color of the text label in the middle of the coverflow.

So please download it, play with it, make it better and post your code in the comments to help everyone out. Lets make this piece of code the best it can be!

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Download Flash 10 Coverflow (10222)

NOTE: I would not recommend trying to learn flash with this file. There are a lot of people asking how to change text color, if you are having these requests I would suggest going through some Lynda.com Flash tutorials to get you familiar with Flash or hiring a Flash developer to help you out.

Hope you enjoy and post additions you would like on the next version (I’m thinking of video handling).

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