strings in Get URL

[willbo]

HELP!
Is it possible to pass a variable string for the name of a .jpg file to load in Get URL? Like if I had 600 .jpg's and when you clicked a Get URL button it could randomly open one of the .jpg's into a new window... i can do this fine with load movie, but i need it to work for get URL as well.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!

 

[PetitPal]

Surely you just use the (near enough) same code... Just put the virtual path and the name of the jpg into the getUrl statement and give it a target of _blank, or make your own up that doesn't exist in any frameset you may have (e.g.: newwindow)...

=)

PetitPal.

 

[willbo]

Well i tried every combo of quotes or parentheticals i could find, but i cant seem to get anything like this:
(random (100))+1 add ".jpg"
in the Get Url statement to give me a random number before the .jpg.
im sure my symantics are wrong, but im just not sure where.
thx again

 

[davdesign]

you can't load a jpg directly into a plain flash movie, simple as that.

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^​

 

[oldnewbie]

Don't really have time to look into this... But you probablycould, I might be wrong, called a random html in which each individual jpg would be embedded. But if you had 600 jpgs that would mean 600 htmls!

;-)

 

[coldfused]

and you think i'm crazy...sheesh....

virtuality2001@aol.com

 

[davdesign]

if your not bothered about formatting, ie: just having a jpg load into a new window, top-left justified, you could just use the following:

image = random(100)+1;
getURL ("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.yourdomainname/"+image+".jpg",[/URL] "_blank");

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^​

 

[oldnewbie]

Sorry Carl! Ran out of polyfilla!

;-)