Need Help! How do I rotate photos on start page? 1

[proflola]

Hello,

I have a client who would like to have a different photo appear each time someone enters the website. How do I do it?

Thanks!

Sandy

 

[oldnewbie]

Several ways it could be done!

One could be to create a movie clip holding several pictures, and this movie clip could be directed to goto and stop on one particular picture based on a random selection done on the first frame of your movie, or even within the preloader if you have one.

Regards,

 

[proflola]

Thank you for your reply. I'm afraid that I don't understand. I'm a novice with Flash and I'm just helping this client out. It's not my specialty.

If you could be more specific, it would be very helpful.

Again thank you for your help.

Sandy

 

[wangbar]

Like Old said, set up a movieclip with a different picture on each frame of the movieclip, let's say ten frames for this example. Give the movieclip the instance name 'photos'.

When the site opens have this code on the first frame:

frame=Math.ceil(Math.random()*10);//creates a random frame to go to
photos.gotoAndStop(frame);//sends the photos clip to that frame

This might not always be exactly what you need as there's a chance that somebody would get the same photo more than once (since it's random).

You could develop it further adding in some extra code that 'remembers' what you saw last time (using a shared local object) but I think the above idea is a good start if you're not really used to the program yet.