Changing image on screen

[Jason Wolfe]

Hello,

I have a place holder image on the screen (in the score) called "noPhoto".

I have a folder with about 10000 images in it. when the user selects
certain criteria, I need to display the correct image. there are obviousle
to many images to import all of them, so I was thinking that the following
command would be most appropriate...

importFileInto member "NoPhoto",the MoviePath&newImageName

this works once, but then the member name is changed from "NoPhoto" to
whatever the new image name is, then I get cast member not found next
time...

what is the proper way to handle this? Please help, as this project is due
and I'm not understanding what is the best way to solve this problem.


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Jason Wolfe
InfuseLabs

[Andrew Morton]

Store the name and reset it once the image is imported:-

mem=member("NoPhoto")
memName=mem.name
mem.fileName=the MoviePath & newImageName
mem.centerRegPoint=true
mem.name=memName

I set centerRegPoint because it can "wander". Well, maybe it's been fixed since
D7.0.2 but I'd rather not trust to luck. I found with D7.0.2 that the member's
name was only changed in authoring mode; there is a sort of sense in that.

Andrew

[Mark A. Boyd]

"Jason Wolfe" <jason@infuselabs.com> wrote in news:bv3ccb$98h$1
@forums.macromedia.com:

> importFileInto member "NoPhoto",the MoviePath&newImageName
>
> this works once, but then the member name is changed from "NoPhoto" to
> whatever the new image name is, then I get cast member not found next
> time...

An alternative method would be to import the "NoPhoto" image as linked.
Then you can simply set the fileName property of the image as needed:

member("noPhoto").fileName = the moviePath &"whatever.jpg"

Andrew's centerRegPoint advice may apply here, too.


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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin'