GUI authoring environment

[VCUK]

Sorry but I can't get my head around the xml coding for love nor money.
Yeah I can sometimes get one or two things to work but at the end of the day I'd rather be out shooting my panoramas than struggling to get hotspots to work.

Failing that, perhaps ammend the misleading statement -

"Benefits
No special programs and no experience are required. You can publish your panorama just by copying files."

As excited as I am about the potential of Flashpanorama I am annoyed to have wasted my money on something that I do not have the sufficient technical experience to use.

:confused:

[Aifos]

if you want just to publish you panorama, it is very easy....
if you want interactive VR tour hotspots and all the nice stuff, you must break your head a couple of days... you will figure out how it works.
I made a comparison:
with pano2qtvr you can publish a panorama in 3 or 4 steps...
with FPP only 2: copy - paste
both programs give you the same results... a panorama.

but... what are you looking for? to publish your panorama or to make a virtual tour full of life???

[VCUK]

Yes I have since purchased pano2vr from garden gnome which allows the creation of hotspots for flash in an easy and understandable way.
The resulting media also embeds easily into webpages as a single file for each panorama without having to play around with any xml, swfobject or additional html.

Having searched this forum for ways to get something working I see my difficulties are not isolated. I think there are quite a few that struggle with the complex and muddled documentation that comes with flashpanorama.

Until things are clearer and more straightforward I see Flashpanorama as being neither viable nor cost effective in fact when working under tight deadlines it's use becomes a liability.

To further clarify cost effectivenmess, I approached a web developer to put together the xml etc for me & even paid for him to have a licence of flashpanorama & go through the docs etc. The quote he came back with was more than I currently charge for authoring in quicktime. When this cost is passed to my clients their decision is easy, without exception they have chosen the media in quicktime.

[Jason Villmer]

Despite the extraordinary capabilities this application offers, I would also like to see the migration towards a complete GUI interface. There could always be an 'open the hood' option to let the hard core coders get in there and tweak or modify things further but providing the ability to create complex interactivity through a simple GUI would really take this application to the next level.

[ThomasK]

An excellent example of a GUI is the interface of www.soundslides.com to merge pictures and audio to a slideshow. With the tool of the developer Joe Weiss many newspapers adapted these slideshows, because the journalists were able to produce these slideshows without going crazy fiddling around flash.

Something like that would give Flashpanoramas a great push forward.

Denis wrote something about a future GUI for Flash Panorama Player:
http://flashpanoramas.com/blog/2007/05/28/editor-plugin-v10-beta/