Hello,

What kind of layout do you want your thumbs to have? It is possible to have all of your thumbs have their own "On Click > Go to State" interactions, where each state has the image you want to display. You would probably want to put all of this inside one custom component. To make the thumbnails clickable, you would need to convert them to a custom component first.

If you do not want to use datalists, the link that you have is probably going to give you more of a headache than anything else.

Here is an example of creating an image gallery using data lists (in case you were wondering what one might look like).

You could also use a tool like Slideshow Pro to create an image gallery that you could import into Catalyst.

-Bear

Hello Chip,

It would be good to see what you have working in order to get a better idea of how your application is set up.

From looking at your diagram, I might break down the application this way.

1. "Gallery" custom component that contains everything. It may have different states for things like thumbnail visibility.
2. Left-most "text" custom component. Clicking on it performs an action to expose the thumbs. Responds to mouse over, click events.
3. Middle "thumbnail" section displaying thumbnails. You can make these a couple of horizontal / tiled data lists, or you can manually place each image and make it a custom component. Clicking the leftmost text changes the gallery component state to make the thumbnails visible.
4. Rightmost "content" custom component. Has a state displaying each piece of content (state 1 displays image 1, state 2 displays image 2, etc). Clicking on a thumbnail sets the content component to the appropriate state.

-Bear

Hi Chip,

When you have your gallery working, if you can post a link we'd love to see it! A lot of designers are interested in making galleries in Flash Catalyst, and the more different real-world samples we have to share, the better. It's always really good to hear how you arrive at the final solution that worked best for your particular project.

Regards,

Kim

Whoops! Kim beat me to it!

This is a common question that's going to go up on the FAQ soon.

You need to reset components whenever you want them to go back to their initial state. There's some additional discussion of this issue towards the end of this thread.

-Bear