Start show with photos tray hidden

I have the same question.. and is there a way for this photos tray to remain without covering the big photo at all?
And in general, how can I control the appearance and theme of this flash? It is said that there is a way but i didn't find any clue.
Is there a way to hide the lower part with all the buttons.

Thanks a lot for your help. You've created a magnificent component. Thanks again.

I would like to know how to do this too. I want to the player to first appear with the controls hidden and I want to lighten the text color. Any ideas?

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Oh yea .. that would make this way more appealing. The skining function is nice, to add ui tweakability now that would be sweet!

Its too bad we dont have access to the FLA! Does anyone have the fla that produces the player swf?
Im sure we could damn near anything then!

It's too bad they didn't use external actionscript files & classes. :(

Just changing it to feature request, since apparently this is not in the current module setup.

Edit:
There must be some internal flashvars that will change what were looking for .. I am digging through the dfgallery site ... their issues forum is scary months of issues with zero response so no luck there. I will try and dig through their doc to see if there is any documentation about this; cause as it stands the dfgallery is not worth using.

If there are any available flashvars it will be easy to add them to dfgallery_flash.tpl.php which is included with this drupal module.

Well I could not find any documentation on their website or in their source files for a full install.

The problem is that we are using this within drupal and have not installed the full package, which includes an administration interface for customizing things, AFAICT.

Ive looked all through the theme files and it would seem that you can change colors & such but there is no way to change the default layout from there.

A temporary fix until we figure out a real solution.

Make the flash gallery dimensions taller than wider ... that will usually leave a gap where there is no image and the photo thumbnails will not overlap as much of the pictures.

good idea ;)

Edit: just taking this out so it doesn't confuse or waste anyone's time. I thought I found documentation but alas it was not :(

I think you mixed something up. The developers page of dfgallery is:
v1: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2007/06/07/dfgallery/
v2: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/dfgallery-2/free-flash-gallery

Dohhhh.....! I did say I hadn't read it yet.... that's thoroughly apparent now! lol

Oh well I suppose the hunt is still on for decent docs.
Their "install.txt & upgrade.txt" dont get into the nitty gritty we need to make the changes we want.

Damn .. im still digging around to find some documentation or method to change the gallery on a more robust level.

I've started an issue over @ the photos module http://drupal.org/node/465020 to see if it can be used with other flash/jquery galleries. I really like the dfgallery but it looses almost every customization capability by not installing the full package as created by the dfgallery creator.

Either we have to better emulate that standard interface (allows hiding thumbnail bar etc) inside drupal .. or we need another solution all together, there are a lot of simple free flash/jquery galleries & rotators out there.

Hi guys, after a lot of blood sweat and tears I came up with a way to hide the thumbnails (as well as picture name etc) so as to make this embeddable gallery sit in a block without thumbnails and other garbage over the top. First, what didn't work:

Didn't work:
1) Decompiling the swf with flash decompiler by Trillix (registered version)
2) Decompiling the swf with flash decompiler by Sothink (regisetered version)
3) Analyze JSON files for additional variables that can be set by hacking this module. Don't see anything that refers to thumbnails.
4) Install full non-drupal version of DFgallery to get the settings panel. The settings panel does NOT include an option to hide the thumbnails by default.
5) Analyze SWF file for additional variables that can be set... no go, it's compressed, I'm retarded =c)

What worked (and completely hides the thumbnails) was some CSS trickery around the gallery... basically making a div that's centered around the embedded DFGallery and making the gallery very tall... basically the gallery is stretcheddddd out and the viewpoint is centered around the center of the slideshow... voila! No thumbnails no JPG info at the top, and if you make it wide you could hide the left-right arrows (I chose not to).

Here's my coding:

<div style="position: relative; top: -27px; margin-top: -10px;">
	<div style="width: 500px; height: 207px; overflow: hidden;">
		<div style="margin-top: -135px;">
			
<!-- Your embed code starts here,  for this 500x207 embedded gallery in a block I made the actual gallery 600 pixels high  -->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="600" style="margin-top: -40px;" width="500"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="movie" value="URL DELETED" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="FlashVars" value="xmlUrl=URL DELETED" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="xmlUrl=URL DELETED" height="600" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="URL DELETED/DfGallery.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500"></embed></object>
<!-- end of embed code -->

</div>
	</div>
</div>

I hope someone finds this useful!!! The embedded gallery is on a test page right now, when we make it live on the client's site I'll post the URL.

Hi,
I tried this #16m but to no success..
Still seeing thummbnails with file dfgallery_flash.tpl.php using:

<div style="position: relative; top: -27px; margin-top: -10px;">
	<div style="width: 500px; height: 207px; overflow: hidden;">
		<div style="margin-top: -135px;">
<!-- Your embed code starts here,  for this 500x207 embedded gallery in a block I made the actual gallery 600 pixels high  -->
<object data="<?php print $flash['swf'];?>" quality="high"width="<?php print $flash['width'];?>" height="<?php print $flash['height'];?>" FlashVars="xmlUrl=<?php print $flash['url'];?>" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
	<param name="movie" value="<?php print $flash['swf'];?>" />
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
	<param name="FlashVars" value="xmlUrl=<?php print $flash['url'];?>" />
</object>
<!-- end of embed code -->
             </div>
	</div>
</div>

How can I change print $flash['height']; to 200+ more.
When I do this. Only the object stretches..and that is not what I want.

Greetings, Martijn