How to display Flickr photos with the IMG Loop component.
Updated: Apr 20, 2007
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Description: In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use IMG Loop component for displaying Flickr photo feeds. It is so easy that you will be wondering why we did this tutorial.
1. First you need to open Flash and create a new Flash Document (File > New > Flash Document)
2. Open the Components window (Window > Components or CTRL+F7)
3. Expand AFComponents node and drag IMG Loop Component on stage
Now our flash document is all set up, next we need to get a Flickr RSS feed!
4. Go to your (or someone else's) Flickr account, usually you can enter http://www.flickr.com/photos/[YOUR NAME]
5. Scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on "Feed - subscribe to [YOUR NAME]" link
6. Right click on the "Feed" link and select "Copy Link Location" option
We are done with Flickr, let's go back to Flash.
7. Select IMG Loop component and open a component inspector (Window > Component Inspector)
8. In the component inspector paste Flickr rss feed path in to the contentRSS property
8. We are done! Now test the movie and enjoy your scrolling flickr gallery
2. Open the Components window (Window > Components or CTRL+F7)
3. Expand AFComponents node and drag IMG Loop Component on stage
Now our flash document is all set up, next we need to get a Flickr RSS feed!
4. Go to your (or someone else's) Flickr account, usually you can enter http://www.flickr.com/photos/[YOUR NAME]
5. Scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on "Feed - subscribe to [YOUR NAME]" link
6. Right click on the "Feed" link and select "Copy Link Location" option
We are done with Flickr, let's go back to Flash.
7. Select IMG Loop component and open a component inspector (Window > Component Inspector)
8. In the component inspector paste Flickr rss feed path in to the contentRSS property
8. We are done! Now test the movie and enjoy your scrolling flickr gallery
