Random image

programming
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I was wondering if someone could help me out with this…I want to have a different image load on my home page everytime the page refreshes or someone visits it.

Is it possible to do it without using Flash?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

2

Yeah, what you have to do first is rename each of the possible images you want to load similar to this:[list][]pic1.jpg[]pic2.jpg[]pic3.jpg[]…[/list]
Basically, you want to put some number sequence after the filenames; you’ll see why in a sec.

Now in (preferably) the first frame, put this code in:

MovieClip.prototype.loadRandomPic = function (__url, picname, numpics) {
this.__url = __url;
this.__url += picname+String(random(numpics)+1);
this.loadMovie(this.__url);
};

Now, create an empty movieclip and place it where you want the image to be. Now, set the actions of this empty movieclip as so:

onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadRandomPic(/*url of the folder with the images with a slash (/) at the end*/, /*name of image sequeces (in example above 'pic'*/, /*number of images total (again, in the example, 3)*/);
}

so if you had pics named the same way above in the folder microsoft.com/images/, you’d call the function like this:

onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadRandomPic("http://www.microsoft.com/images/", "pic", 3);
}

and that code should choose from any of the three images named above.

let me know how it goes.

3

Thanks thoriphes

Is it possible to do it without using Flash though?

Thanks

4

oh god, i’m so sorry, i missed that “without flash” doo-da.

hm…you may have to ask someone else because i’m not as knowledgable outside actionscript.

sorry :frowning:

5

That’s ok…that’s why I posted it in the Random forum…but for some reason it got moved to this forum??

6

yeah, i moved it. i’ll move it back, sorry for the misunderstanding.

7

Hey evader,
Kitiara created a random image feature in JavaScript. You can find it here: http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23363

Cheers!
Kirupa :thumb:

8

and this should be in the SCRIPTING forum… i’ll move it there…

9

I posted another method of this in this thread…

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18323

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Thanks for all the help guys…sorry for all the confussion about what forum it should be in…lol