flash actionscript: I'm having some difficulties here. I have two swf's, one controls the
other---not the problem. On the one swf there are buttons and the other are
images, you rollover a btn a different image pops up...you get the point. Now,
on the swf with the images--I am trying to have the images load exteranlly, but
also randomly. Is this possible?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
hutch

Yes possible, put the images in a folder then the names in a XML. Have flash
load the XML and put the names into an array and then generate a random number
to access the array and then load the random image

Could you by chance give me an example. I'm not to great with the whole XML thing.
again, it's so much appreciated.

heres an example of a xml with 3 images

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<images>
<image="images/img1.jpg" />
<image="images/img2.jpg" />
<image="images/img3.jpg" />

I've been searching around for tutorials on this, and I found some stuff. I
haven't found exactly what I'm looking for, but close. Do you have to use XML
to make this work? I found this code---

pic_arr = ["images/1", "images/2", "images/3", "images/4", "images/5"];
one_btn.onRelease = function() {
ranNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*pic_arr.length);
holder_mc.loadMovie(pic_arr[ranNum]+".jpg");
};

this works, but what's the difference between using this and XML?
Also, do you know how I might intergrate this with LocalConnection?
I really appreciate the help.

hutch

Ok, I got this all to work, but now I'm sitting on a problem --- my client will
not be able to add or take out images dynamicly. So, I guess I need to
incorporact XML.
I know .:}x-=V!P=-x{:. posted some XML script above but I'm not really sure
how to incorporate that into flash, and create an array from it.
Please help this poor soul!!!
thanks.