One hit reference ...

[spindoctor]

As one of the increasing new users of Flash, I am also somewhat stuck in the old ways of making panoramas using QT. I notice that on the yahoo panogroups discussion site there was a postig from the makers of this here programme saying (near as dammit quote) "our new player makes QT a thing of the past".

I have also learnt, from people on this very forum, that this player is more programmer friendly. Therefore, those of us without programming knowledge (simple, basic photographers) may have somewhat of a tricky time figuring out how to use this programme to play panoramas.

So, knowing that my technical and computer skills are quite so basic, I went ahead and bought the Flash player. I operate a Mac and when the .zip file was downloaded and opened, I couldn't help but notice that there wasn't a file marked 'getting started with Flash', as I assume that the files within the .zip file are for those who could take to this new programming lark without so much as a blink of the eye.

Is there, could there be, a one hit reference somewhere that anyone has found that might give us less-experiences fiddlers of programming language some comfort, something that might explain in easy-to-grasp English, "how to get started using Flash for panoramas"?

I can hardly take this back to the shop so I would very much like to learn how to use Flash - sending blocks of code won't get me anywhere.

I look forward to hearing from anyone who has a bit of time to dig out some paperwork.

Regards,

SD

[phberlin]

Hhm, actually there IS what you are looking for -- the tutorial is located at [base directory]/tutorials/index.html. There you'll also find a "Simple tutorial".

Hope that helps,
regards, Ph.

[jaaaab]

hello spindoctor,

I believe what you say is wrong and certainly you're reacting like this because you didn't find yet what you've been looking for.

There is a simple tutorial in the zip just start "tutorials.htm" in the folder then in the menu clic "simple tutorial".

Here there are instructions telling you how to display a pano WITHOUT programming. At this point, this player do the same thing as QT with no programming skills (just renaming 6 files).

Then you can start doing some more interactivity by learning how to do that in the next tutorials.

Cheers.