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Spy Media Photo Viewer

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Spy Media Photo Viewer

This player was handed to me as just the interface. I wrote the code to grab an XML stream and display the photos entirely as class files in ActionScript 2.0 using a Model-View-Controller architecture (Approximately anyway).

It was actually quite a technical challenge, in terms of pre-loading images and pausing the slideshow if it was running faster than the images could load.

Here are a couple of examples of my ActionScript 2.0:

// Snap scrubber to check mark
if(this._x < 53){
  var val:Number = (this._x - 39) <= (53 - this._x) ? 39 : 53;
} else {
  var val:Number = (this._x - 53) <= (66 - this._x) ? 53 : 66;
}
this._x = val;

// Dispatch event for interface to reflect current loaded photo
private function broadcastChange(photo:Object):Void{
  trace("App.dispatching <photoChange> ("+photo.title+")");
  var eventObj:Object = {target:this,type:"photoChange"};
  eventObj.photo = photoAttributes(m_photo);
  dispatchEvent(eventObj);
 }