Re: FN-FORUM: Looping through images

date posted 28th March 2008 18:31

Agree with Colin, why re-invent the wheel (or slideshow in this case!).

Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years

Colin Shipton wrote:
>> Just had an interesting request; display images in turn, one at a time,
>> like an animated gif, but not using a gif but through something like a
>> recordset or set of images in a folder using filesystemobject so it can
>> be edited easily through content management.
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> My idea would be to use one of the many image slideshows using a Javascript
> framework like Scriptaculous, Mootools or JQuery
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> All of these frameworks have a slideshow component, look at SmoothGallery
> for Mootools http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/ which uses the different
> images contained within the source of the HTML to display the slideshow. You
> can then use the FileSystemObject of ASP to dynamically generate however
> many images you need.
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> HTH
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> Colin Shipton
> Intrafusion Website Design & Development
> http://www.intrafusion.co.uk
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/intrafusion
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