Flex Image Viewer: ComCenter 0.4

I'm pleased to announce the release of ComCenter 0.4. ComCenter 0.4 features the ability to rotate thumbnails (so you can align them to their proper orientation), a slightly more native look, and each thumbnail shows a placeholder until its ready for display.

There were a couple of other miscellaneous changes as well. You can now associate an event (such as "Our Florida Vacation", or "Uncle Joe's Birthday") with each image as well as record the owner of the image.You can also assign keywords to each image (although this isn't used that much in this version).

The most important feature since the 0.1 release is that all image data is now stored in XML (specifically in a file called 'ComCenter.xml'). This was something that was *long* overdue. Here's a quick rundown of the tags and their attributes.

• ComCenter - the primary root tag.




• Events - the root Event tag.




• Event - represents a single event in the system.




• id - the identifier of the Event.


• Title - the title of the event.






• People - the root People tag.




• Person - represents a single person in the system.




• id - the identifier of the person.


• Name - the name of the person.






• Images - the root Image tag.




• Image - represents a single image in the system.




• id - the identifier of the image.


• Path - the URL of the image.


• DateTaken - the date the photo was taken.


• DateEntered - the date the image was entered into ComCenter.


• Title - the title of this image (if any).


• Description - the caption of this image.


• Keywords - comma separated list of keywords associated with this image. This attribute is not used in this version.


• OwnerId - a reference to the owner of this image. This reference should match the identifier in the "Person" section of the XML file.


• EventId - a reference to an event associated with this image (if any). This reference should match the identifier in the "Events" section of the XML file.

ComCenter can be downloaded here. A demo of it can be found here.

Needless to say, this is only a 0.4 release so there is a long way to go.

Version 0.5 of ComCenter will contain the ability to zoom in on images, basic help, the ability to print images, some basic search capabilities that uses the 'keywords' attribute mentioned above, and the ability to paginate the thumbnails display.