How to Modify the OpenZoom Nano Viewer?

Yes, it just shows my ignorance. I opened the swf file in a text editor, saw random strings of characters and deduced that it needed to be decompiled somehow.
I'm definitely not ambitious enough to try to create my own viewer, it would take me months to learn all this anyway. I'd just like to change one or two parameters here and there. Do I really need this 118 MB program to do this ? And if so, would it be sufficient to change the parameters I want in your .as file and compile it with the Flex Builder to get a new swf file ? (Sorry for the stupid questions, it's just to have a rough idea of what I'd have to do...)

Happy you enjoy my artwork !

Thanks again and best wishes,

Sam

Well more stupid questions... I just tried to recompile your file http://tinyurl.com/dll6ve
for now. It works well until line 271, where I get this error message : "Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant : MultiScaleImage"
I suppose that it cannot find the path of the file where MultiScaleImage is defined. I downloaded the Flex MultiScaleImage Component, put it in a directory above my root directory, and downloaded the OpenZoomViewer.as file in the same directory as the Flex MultiScaleImage Component.

What's wrong ?

Best,

Sam

I've just tried to put the file
openzoom-preview-111.swc
(the only swc file present in your package) in the lib folder but it doesn't help...

What I suspect is that the .as file is not at the right place, and that some path specified in it are relative to its location... ?

Sam

Hello Samuel,
Hello Daniel,

same problem here:

I am also new to Flash and trying to get your Photoshop-PlugIn up and running on my own, since the compiled version provided at http://gasi.ch/blog/pimp-your-photosh... contains strange characters in the context menu (see also the live demo at http://gasi.ch/examples/2008/12/23/ph...).

I have downloaded the Flex SDK and checked out the whole trunk via SVN today.

When I try to build the viewer I get the following error (ok, it's in german but obviously the same error message):

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C:\>"C:\Programme\Adobe\Adobe Flex\bin\mxmlc.exe" "$Path\to\SVN\projects\photoshop-plugin\viewer\src\OpenZoomViewer.as"
Loading configuration file C:\Programme\Adobe\Adobe Flex\frameworks\flex-config.xml
$Path\to\SVN\projects\photoshop-plugin\viewer\src\OpenZoomViewer.as(271): col: 52 Error: Typ wurde nicht gefunden oder war keine Kompilierungszeit-Konstante: MultiScaleImage.

private function configureTransformer( image : MultiScaleImage ) : void
^
[...]

C:\>
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As you might have noticed, I have replaced the real path with "$Path\to\SVN\" in the example above and shortened the excerpt a bit (marked with "[...]"):The same error message is also reported for the occurences of MultiScaleImage in lines 279, 294, 341 and 357.
I should also mention that the tiny circumflex is positioned under the "M" of MultiScaleImage when using a monospace font.

Like Samuel I could not apply your hints to my/our problem.

I hope this information is sufficient - please let me know, if you need more information.

Best regards,
Matthias

Yes, exactly the same problem as me... Thanks for the more complete description.

Sam

Hi,

Sorry, I still don't understand... The Flex builder documentation doesn't say anything about how to use linked ressources from the command line application.

I understand that an "Eclipse linked ressource" is a file or folder that is not in the directory of your project, but is used by your project. Now what is this ${OPENZOOM} ? For instance there is no such tag in the OpenZoomViewer.as file. There is a file called org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs in the .settings directory of your project, but I've no idea how to use it...

Maybe if you don't feel like explaining all of this (what I would completely understand) you could answer a much more pragmatic question. Where do I put your project directory compared to the directory flex_sdk_3 in which the command line compiler is installed so that your project will compile ?

Really, I just want to change parameters in the OpenZoomViewer.as file and compile it.

And just to suggest a feature, it would be nice to have an OpenZoomViewer.swf applet that would take its parameters from an extra xml file, like it is the case with the Zoomify applet. It would spare this recompiling business.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Sam

Hi,

Yes, I understand your philosophy, and from this point of view it's really great that you keep everything open. On the other hand for a user (like me) who just want to tweak a few parameters, learning flash is a bit too large investment...

But thank you very much for the "tango" files, they fit my purpose for now. :) When I have more time I might try to play with your source and the flex builder...

Again thanks for this great tool !

Best wishes,

Sam

Hi, me again...

Just a question, with the "tango" files, is it possible to have as default view (when the flash applet is launched) a zoomed part of the image, instead of the global view ? If so, where are the parameters to specify the center and the magnification of the default view ?

Thanks and best regards,

Sam

P.S.: I'm using your applet extensively here: http://www.algorithmic-worlds.net . Thanks again!

Well, I was asking if it is already there, but from your answer it's probably not, is it ?

I wish I had time to learn flash... someday, maybe.

Sam