Importing external images into Flash using ActionScript 3.0

Question

Hey Guys!
What i'm trying to do it import a few (say four) images from
an external
folder at random and display them in a row. The folder would
contain up to a
hundred pictures, sequentially named (ie. 1.jpg, 2.jpg,
3.jpg, 4.jpg,
etc...)
any suggestions on how I could do this??
thanks,
-Chris

Answer 1

thanks for getting me started! Is there a way to get the four
images
directly out of an external folder, though?
thanks,
-Chris
"kglad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:f7eop9$8um$[email protected]..
> here's code to get you started. this allows you to
select 4 of your
> images at
> random. then use the loader class and its load method to
start your loads
> and
> use its contentloaderinfo property to attach listeners
to detect if
> there's
> been a load error (so you can load another) and load
completion (so you
> can
> position your images):
>
>
>
> Array.prototype.shuffle = function() {
> var p:int;
> var t:int;
> var ivar:int
> for (ivar = this.length-1; ivar>=0; ivar--) {
> p=Math.floor((ivar+1)*Math.random())
> t = this[ivar];
> this[ivar] = this[p];
> this[p] = t;
> }
> };
> var tl:MovieClip=this;
> var swfNum:int=100;
> var num:int=0;
> var i:int;
> var swfA:Array=[];
> for (i=1; i<=swfNum; i++) {
> swfA.push(i+".jpg");
> }
>
> swfA.shuffle();
>
> // swfA[0], swfA[1], swfA[2], swfA[3] contain references
to 4 of your
> images
> randomly selected. if one of them doesn't exist
> // use the ieError event to select the next one at
random: swfA[3] etc.
>