Whether to use the Flash gallery when possible.

We recommend that this option remains at the default value (true). Only set this to false if you want to force the use of the non-Flash gallery for all devices. More details.

Whether to use Flash 10's color correction when possible.

We recommend that this option remains at the default value (true). Only set this to false if you are experiencing issues with color shifts. More details.

Color of title and caption text (hexadecimal color value).

Can be overridden by 'titleFontColor', 'captionFontColor' and 'flickrTitleFontColor'.

Color of image frame, thumbnail frame, image navigation arrows and thumb navigation arrows (hexadecimal color value).

Gallery Style defines some of the gallery look and feel. Can be:

• MODERN - Default style.
• COMPACT- Designed to work for small size galleries such as when embedding in a blog. Overlay caption and button bar.
• CLASSIC - SimpleViewer v1.9 style.

Position of thumbnails relative to main image. Can be:

• TOP
• BOTTOM
• RIGHT
• LEFT
• NONE

Number of thumbnail columns.

Number of thumbnail rows.

Whether to show 'Open Image in New Window' button and right-click menu option.

Whether to show 'Go Fullscreen' button and right-click menu option.

Whether to use Flickr as the source of the images and text. Set to false for a local gallery.

If set to true and no user name or tags are specified, SimpleViewer will fetch Flickr's current most interesting images.

The Flickr user name of the photos to display. If this parameter isn't passed then everybody's public photos will be searched.

To get your flickr user name, login to flickr and look for the 'signed in as...' text at the top right. You can also get a Flickr username from a Flickr photostream url here (second field down).

Example: "felixturner"

A comma separated list of tags. Photos with one or more of the tags listed will be returned.

Example: "jump,smile"

Amount of space at edge of gallery in pixels.

Vertical placement of the gallery within the SWF. Can be useful for getting the image flush to the edge of the swf. Can be:

• CENTER
• TOP
• BOTTOM

Horizontal placement of the gallery within the SWF. Can be useful for getting the image flush to the edge of the swf. Can be:

• CENTER
• LEFT
• RIGHT

Whether keyboard can be used to control gallery.

Keyboard controls are: Image navigation via cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down. 'F' key for fullscreen toggle. Space bar for AutoPlay toggle.

Whether mouse scroll wheel can be used to navigate between images.

Setting this to true may affect scrolling of the HTML page that contains SimpleViewer. Mouse wheel scrolling may not work on all OS/browser combinations dues to a limitation in the Flash Player.

Determines what happens when the user clicks on an image. Can be:

• NAVIGATE - Enables Next/Back image navigation via Image Navigation Arrows.
• OPEN_URL - Enables left click image to open a URL. Opens optional ‘linkURL’ + linkTarget’ in image tags, or defaults to imageURL. Setting this to true disables image navigation.
• NONE - Clicking on the main image has no effect.

Determines how the main image is scaled to fit the available area. See the Layout Guide for details.

• SCALE: Scale large images down to fit Image Area. Will not enlarge images above their actual resolution, ensuring maximum image quality.
• SCALE_UP: Scale images up and down to fit Image Area.
• FILL: Scale images up and down to completely fill Image Area. Large images are cropped to fit image area.
• STRETCH: Stretch image to exactly fit image area, losing image's aspect ratio.
• NONE: No scaling. Large images are cropped to fit image area.

Determines how images are preloaded. Also controls if images are kept in memory after being viewed.

• PAGE - Preloads all images in the current thumbnail page. Unloads all images in the previous thumbnail page.
• NEXT - Preloads image after currently viewed image. Unloads previously viewed images.
• ALL - Preloads all images in gallery. Maximum usability. Images never unloaded. Not good for large galleries (image count > 50)
• NONE - No image preloading. Conserves server bandwidth at cost of slower responsiveness.

Whether to smooth resized images.

Setting this to 'TRUE' improves resized image quality but uses more CPU resources. If you have a large gallery that is running slowly, setting this to FALSE may help. This setting also applies to background image.

• SQUARE
• ROUNDED
• NONE

Color of image frame, thumbnail frame, image navigation arrows and thumb navigation arrows (hexadecimal color value). These values can also be set separately (see below).

How to transition between images. Can be:

• FADE - Old image fades down to background color then new image fades in.
• CROSS_FADE - Crossfade between old and new image
• SLIDE - Old Image slides out while new image slides in.
• FLASH - New image pops in and flashes exposure from white.
• NONE - No transition. New image pops in.

• CENTER
• LEFT
• RIGHT

Vertical placement of the image within the image area. Can be:

• CENTER
• TOP
• BOTTOM

When to show the image overlay.

• HOVER - when mouse is over the main image.
• ALWAYS
• NEVER

When to show the image navigation buttons (arrow buttons that overlay the main image). Can be:

• HOVER - show buttons when mouse is over the main image
• ALWAYS
• NEVER

• CURSOR - small arrow that follows cursor.
• BIG
• CIRCLE
• SQUARE
• CLASSIC
• TRIANGLE

Whether to hide the overlay on image transitions.

Should only be set to false when the image size remains constant, otherwise there may be some jumping on image transition.

Position of thumbnails relative to main image. Can be:

• TOP
• BOTTOM
• RIGHT
• LEFT
• NONE

Setting 'thumbPosition' to TOP or BOTTOM will automatically set 'titleTextAlignment' to CENTER. You can override this by setting 'titleTextAlignment' to a different value.

Thumbnail frame style. Can be:

• SQUARE
• ROUNDED
• NONE

• CENTER
• LEFT
• RIGHT

• CENTER
• TOP
• BOTTOM

How to preload thumbnails.

• PAGE: Loads all thumbnails in the current thumbnail page.
• ALL: Preloads all thumbnails in gallery.

The brightness of the thumbnail images while they are being loaded. Can be any number between:

• 0 = Black,
• 1 = Regular Brightness
• 2 = White

Thumbnail navigation button style. Can be:

• CIRCLE
• CLASSIC
• BIG
• SQUARE
• TRIANGLE
• NUMERIC- small numbered buttons
• NONE

Vertical position of thumbnail nav buttons relative to the thumbnails. Can be:

• CENTER - left and right of the thumbnails
• BOTTOM - below the thumbnails.

Opacity of nav button background. 0 = transparent. 1 = opaque.

Position of button bar. Can be:

• STAGE_TOP - above all other gallery elements
• TOP - in Top Stack
• BOTTOM
• LEFT
• RIGHT
• OVERLAY - As part of image overlay
• NONE

Whether to show 'Open Image in New Window' button and right-click menu option.

Whether to show 'Go Fullscreen' button and right-click menu option.

Note: For fullscreen mode to work the 'allowfullscreen' flash param must be set to true in the HTML doc.

Whether to show the download button and the 'Download Image...' right-click menu option.

Note that download functionality does not work locally. To use download functionality, upload the SWF to a web server.

• CENTER
• LEFT
• RIGHT

• CENTER
• TOP
• BOTTOM

Size scaling to apply to button bar. 1 is original size.

Position of gallery title text relative to main image. Overrides gallery 'titlePosition' option. Can be:

• TOP
• BOTTOM
• RIGHT
• LEFT
• OVERLAY_TOP
• OVERLAY_BOTTOM
• NONE

Comma delimited list of system fonts to use for captions. Note these fonts must be on the user's machine to be displayed.

Example: "Helvetica, Arial,_sans"

Color of title text (hexadecimal color value). Overrides 'textColor'.

Color of title background (hexadecimal color value).

Whether to 'float' the title when laying out the gallery. Setting this to true means the caption height is not counted in stage layouts and the title height will automatically resize to fit the title text.

Alignment of title text within text area. Can be:

• LEFT
• RIGHT
• CENTER

Position of caption relative to main image. Can be:

• TOP
• BOTTOM
• RIGHT
• LEFT
• OVERLAY_TOP
• OVERLAY_BOTTOM
• NONE

Comma delimeted list of system fonts to use for captions. Note these fonts must be on the user's machine to be displayed.

Example: "Helvetica, Arial,_sans"

Color of caption text (hexadecimal color value). Overrides 'textColor'.

Alignment of caption text within text area. Can be:

• LEFT
• RIGHT
• CENTER

Color of caption background (hexadecimal color value).

Height of caption area, including padding.

Whether to float the caption when laying out the gallery. Setting this to true means the caption height is not counted in stage layouts.

Relative or absolute URL for music MP3 file (e.g. "sounds/music.mp3"). Relative paths are relative to the HTML document that contains SimpleViewer.

Set to "" for no audio.

Relative or absolute URL to a JPG or SWF to load as the gallery background. Set to "" to disable background image.

Relative paths are relative to the HTML document that embeds SimpleViewer.

Defines how the background image is scaled to fit the SWF size. Can be:

• FILL: Scale image up and down to completely fill SWF. Large images are cropped to fit image area.
• STRETCH: Stretch image to exactly fit image SWF, losing image's aspect ratio.
• NONE: No scaling.

• CENTER
• LEFT
• RIGHT

• CENTER
• TOP
• BOTTOM

Whether to use Flickr as the source of the images and text. Set to false for a local gallery.

If set to true and no user name or tags are specified, SimpleViewer will fetch Flickr's current most interesting images.

The Flickr user name of the photos to display. If this parameter isn't passed then everybody's public photos will be searched.

To get your flickr user name, login to flickr and look for the 'signed in as...' text at the top right.

Example: "felixturner"

A comma separated list of tags. Photos with one or more of the tags listed will be returned.

Example: "jump,smile"

Can be used instead of flickrUserName. Get a Flickr User Id here.

Example: "48508968@N00"

The id of the photoset to return the photos for. (Overrides Flickr username and tags). To get a Flickr set id, go to the set's Flickr page. The id is the last numerical string in the URL.

Example: "72157624436414524"

The id of a group who's pool to search. If specified, only matching photos posted to the group's pool will be returned. The first (one) flickrTags can also be used in a group search. Get a Flickr Group Id here.

Example: "13813978@N00"

Defines how multiple tags are combined for flickr tag search. Can be:

• ALL - use AND combination (image must have all tags to be displayed)
• ANY - use OR combination (image can have 1 or more tags to be displayed)

The order in which to sort returned photos. Defaults to date-posted-desc. The possible values are:

• DATE-POSTED-DESC
• DATE-POSTED-ASC
• DATE-TAKEN-ASC
• DATE-TAKEN-DESC
• INTERESTINGNESS-DESC
• INTERESTINGNESS-ASC
• RELEVANCE

Note this option does not work for set and group searches which always use the Flickr set display order. To change the image order for a Flickr set, check here.

Image size to load from flickr. Can be:

• MEDIUM - 500 on longest side
• LARGE - 1024 on longest side (only exists for original images larger than 1280). If the large version does not exist SimpleViewer will fetch the medium version.
• ORIGINAL - Original uploaded image dimensions. To access the original image size, the Flickr user must have a Flickr Pro Account and the image's privacy must be set to public and its license set to Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons. Check here for more info.

Comma delimited list of system fonts to use for Image Titles. Note these fonts must be on the user's machine to be displayed. Overrides 'captionFontName'.

Example: "Helvetica, Arial,_sans"

Comma delimited list of system fonts to use for back button. Note these fonts must be on the user's machine to be displayed.

Example: "Helvetica, Arial,_sans"

Relative or absolute URL of the gallery XML file. Relative paths are relative to the HTML page that contains the swf. Useful if you want to load gallery xml data from somewhere other than the default location.

Relative or absolute URL of the gallery folder. Relative paths are relative to the HTML page that contains the swf. Useful when embedding SimpleViewer in a HTML page that is not in the gallery folder. View more info here.

If set, all relative URLs to gallery content (including images, thumbnails and XML) will be relative to this URL. This includes the galleryURL and presetURL options.

Language to use for tooltips and onscreen messages. Can be:

• AUTO - Language detected automatically from user's system (Recommended).
• DE - German
• EN - English
• ES - Spanish
• FR - French
• IT - Italian
• JA - Japanese
• NL - Dutch
• NO - Norwegian
• PL - Polish
• PT - Portuguese
• RU - Russian
• SV - Swedish
• ZH - Chinese

Used to specify a custom language for ToolTips and onscreen messages. This can be used to specify a language not handled by the languageCode above. Using this option overrides languageCode.

Specify text as a comma delimited list as shown left.