I’ve been working this code for some time now, and I think it’s gotten pretty cool.
FKScan is an app I developed a while ago, that grabs the most current photos uploaded to Flickr, continuously, and shows them as thumbnails.
As I was developing this blog, I started using the Flickr API to display photos and videos using my newly designed Photoset and Photo viewers, based on the Bus Driver Jim domain.
Today it all came together. Everything has been moved under the FKScan domain, and I’ve added a Flickr video viewer.
Flickr considers videos uploaded to their site as long photographs. I consider them videos, and I’ve figured out how to discern between the two. Thus, when you click on a thumbnail, the code opens a photo viewer, or a video viewer, based on the type.
The PhotoSet Viewer shows information about the selected set, and hi-lites video content in yellow. When you launch the Photo Viewer, or the Video Viewer, information about that entity is available by right-clicking, or selecting the Info button.
- Launch FKScan.
- Press the Spacebar. (Or right click your mouse…)
- Let the thumbnails scroll until you see something interesting, and then click on it.
- The PhotoSet Viewer for the owner of that thumbnail will be opened.
- You can expand the photo stream incrementally, or present the photos within a set, by clicking on the set thumbnail or the description.
- Click the S in the upper right corner of a set box to launch the Flickr Slide Show.
- When you click on any photo or video, the appropriate viewer will be opened.
- Enjoy!