Picture slideshow and retrieving pictures from hard drive folder

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I have created a picture slideshow routine on the web. This works great if the pictures are Image Resources in the database itself. It is controlled by “previous” and “next” buttons.

How would I get the list of pictures from a designated hard drive folder on the server?

I’m guessing JavaScript does not reach out to the server??? I have the list of file names set using a Webqueryopen agent. Now is it possible to get those pictures?

I want to make this a user-managed slideshow - they remove/add pictures from this folder.

Thanks!

Dan

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Subject: Picture slideshow and retrieving pictures from hard drive folder

If it is safe to do so you could make use of Domino 6 support of WebDAV. This is a server-wide setting so Im not sure on peoples views of that?

By using WebDav your user base would be able to add there images directly to your Image Resource list within the database so no desgin changes required by you (Note: the person adding the images needs designer access to the database)

Otherwise if your building a list using an agent you should be able to build a javascript array using URL’s pointing to your images. You could then use a refresh() javascript event to move through your list.

http://www.javascript.com should give you some more pointers

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Subject: Examples of URLs?

What would be an example of the URL?

Would it be best to place a “pictures” directory under the home directory of the website:

http://www.acme.com/pictures/picture1.gif?OpenElement

???

Thanks!

Dan

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Subject: Direct link to javasript slideshow here

http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/basic-slideshow.html

if you can replace the hardcoded image array in this code with some computed text that returns your image URl ou should be sorted

Enjoy