Re: FLASH: Calling images into flash

[Robert Bleeker]

Hi Rick,


Couple of ways you can go: (that I know of)

-Use HTML frames only for the webcam section of your site and the

"geturl("newpic","framename")" action.


-Use a server side CGI/ Generator script to turn your gifs into .SWF files

then use "load Movie("pic.swf",.......)" into your flash site.


Now to execute the calling of the pics, you might want to set-up a MC that

has enough blank frames in it to loop over the specific time you would like

it to check for new pics. In the first frame you place the action script to

"load movie" OR "getURL" depending what system you are using.


Robert




on 18/6/00 2:35 PM, Rick Walther at

rickw_1976yahoo [dot] com

 wrote:


> Hello, All!!

> Small problem here.  I'm trying to display a web cam

> image into a flash page.  The image is updated every

> two minutes onto the server, so my page normally shows

> the image fine. Now that I'm rebuilding in flash, I

> can have the image called, but it wont display in the

> same place, it will call up a new window, or replace

> the page.  How can I call the external image to a

> givin spot on my page, and does anyone have a good

> action sequence so that it calls at a specific

> time...my current solution slows down the page too

> much!!  Thanks!!

> 

> Rick Walther



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