JillMac58 wrote:
> I haven't been able to find in the fourms what i'm looking to do. I would like
> to create a simple slide show movie where the images fade in and out of say 5
> total images (very simle i can totally handle that!). BUT what I need it to do
> is pull the images from an external .jpg folder so that in the future all i
> have to do is overwrite the old files with new ones - but keeping the names the
> same... I'm not super duper in action scripting... Any insight on how to
> accomplish this would be fabulous!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> jill
>

Sam wrote:
> JillMac58 wrote:
>
>>I haven't been able to find in the fourms what i'm looking to do. I would like
>>to create a simple slide show movie where the images fade in and out of say 5
>>total images (very simle i can totally handle that!). BUT what I need it to do
>>is pull the images from an external .jpg folder so that in the future all i
>>have to do is overwrite the old files with new ones - but keeping the names the
>>same... I'm not super duper in action scripting... Any insight on how to
>>accomplish this would be fabulous!
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> jill
>>
>
>
> I would use a php file to read the contents of your directory, and then
> output the name of the images in a flash friendly format. Then have the
> flash import the variables from the php file.
>
> something like this for the php:
>
> <?php
> function dirList ($directory)
> {
> // create an array to hold directory list
> $results = array();
>
> // create a handler for the directory
> $handler = opendir($directory);
>
> // keep going until all files in directory have been read
> while ($file = readdir($handler)) {
>
> // if $file isn't this directory or its parent,
> // add it to the results array
> if ($file != '.' && $file != '..' )
> $results[] = $file;
> }
>
> // tidy up: close the handler
> closedir($handler);
>
> // done!
> return $results;
>
> }
>
> $dir = "images";//set this to the directory of the images
> $results = dirList($dir);
>
> $vars = "";
> for($i=0;$i<count($results);$i++){
> $vars .= "image" . $i . "=" . $results[$i] . "&" ;
> }
> echo $vars ;
>
> ?>
>
>
> sam

JillMac58 wrote:
> Sam -
>
> Wow! Thanks so much for your help. It looks a bit over my head but will give it a try. Thanks for replying so quickly!
>
> :)
>
> jill