SimpleViewer is an flash gallery that has gained some popularity on the net. Like with anything in this world of ours, it has strengths and weaknesses. It’s primary strength is that it allows people who do not know a lot about flash to set up a flash gallery. One of it’s weaknesses is that it does not handle deep linking in flash. Adding deep linking to SimpleViewer allows you to link to an individual image within the gallery instead of just being able to link to the base Flash movie clip. In this article I will show you how to add deep linking to SimpleViewer using SWFAddress.
With the integration of SWFAddress, the browser history will update every time you click a thumbnail, allowing for the use of the browser’s back button. You also get a nice clean URL, and the updating of the URL allows users to link to individual images which wouldn’t be possible otherwise.
I will be focusing on a Multiple galleries example, but you could easily adapt this if you only have one gallery.
Here is an Example of the finished working code or you can check out my galleries.