Dynamic image naming

programming flash
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I’m writing a full flash image achive that holds way too many photos for a static site. I’m using the code below to dynamically load the images.

[COLOR=royalblue]container.loadMovie("/images/photo.jpg");[/COLOR]

I’ve managed to get most of it done (Thanks to everyone who gave me a nudge here and a pointer there), but My lack of flash syntax is hampering my progress.

My movie also connects to a db and gets variables for “image_file_name” among other things.

How do I replace photo.jpg with the variable “image_file_name”.jpg

Hold those laughs back…

Ta
Capt

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container.loadMovie("/images/"+image_file_name+".jpg");
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I can’t seem to get that to work

container.loadMovie("/img/article/250x250/nonprog/"+imgf+".jpg");
Not Working

I’ve replaced the dynamic code with the static file name

container.loadMovie("/img/article/250x250/nonprog/000056_00007.jpg");
Working

I’ve also displayed the file name as dynamic text, just to check that the variable is working

Very odd?

Flash MX : BTW

and of course, thanks

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Have you thought about creating an XML file to store the image names/locations…then having flash loop through the XML file to load the images in?..that way, you could just edit the XML file to add more images…

:bu: :bu:
kc

5

XML is a bit over my head at the moment, but I will bare it in mind for the future…

Any idea why my orignal problem doesn’t work?

Capt,