flash actionscript: I work for a non-profit organization and we have many branches. Each branch
has a separate page. Each one constantly needing to change it's slide show.
I'm trying to create a slide show that will create itself.

I know that I can read data from .txt files. That isn't a problem, or
something I'm worried about. The one thing I see giving me a problem is can I
write code that would...

Read a directory and create an array of photos which runs with the .txt file
to create "objects" that I will call a slide. These slides will have a photo,
a url, and a number assigned to them.

I know how to assign a number, the url, the problem i'm having is making it
read a folder for an X amount of files. X would be changing, a variable number
that would be equal to the number of photos in the directory.

You won't be able to make Flash check the number of files in a folder. You can
do it with some kind of Perl, PHP, etc. backend thing.

For native Flash solutions you have two choices ? have a text or XML file with
the names of the files. Since you are already reading in some variables this
might be a good choice. Of course you would have to count on other folks
updating the text/XML correctly when they change the pictures.

Or name the pictures consecutively. Then just cycle through and when you get a
load error you know you've reached the end. Of course this will require
conforming the naming of photos and giving them consecutive numbers.

My experience is that it will be much more difficult to get people to
correctly implement choice number 2.

I have an example of this from a tutorial/demo system I've been working on...
The XML is simple enough and the ActionScript is rather simple too...

As for the updating, I do it by hand at the moment, since I am the only one
that makes the changes but I'm sure I could make some php pages to do the
changes...

PM me if you'd like to see it...