Slideshow - location of image files

sfphoto · 07-19-2010, 10:20 PM

Here is a simple slideshow with an on-off button. The images (7 defined) are numbered 01-07.jpg and in the same folder.

My question. How to call the images from a different folder with the script.

I can change the <img scr> HTML tag to include a directory where the images are but how do I tell the script?

Thanks in advance!

---page code below---

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

<script type="text/javascript">
var Start = 1
var Timer3
function SlideShow()
{
if (document.all.ShowButton.value == "Stop Show") {
clearInterval(Timer3)
document.all.ShowButton.value = "Start Show"
} else {
document.all.ShowButton.value = "Stop Show"
Timer3 = setInterval("NextPic()" ,3000)
}
}
function NextPic()
{
Start += 1
if (Start > 7) {
Start = 1
}
document.all.Pic.src = "0" + Start + ".jpg"
}
</script>

<body>
<img id="Pic" src="01.jpg"></p>
<input id="ShowButton" type="button" value="Start Show" style="font-size:9pt"
onclick="SlideShow()"/><br>
</body>

</html>

Old Pedant · 07-19-2010, 10:29 PM

Instead of

Code:

document.all.Pic.src = "0" + Start + ".jpg";

you just use

Code:

document.all.Pic.src = "yourImageDirectory/0" + Start + ".jpg";

But...

But that code will *ONLY* work in MSIE. document.all is an obsolete mechanism left over from MSIE 4 days. MSIE 6 (and I think even 5) and beyond all support the modern standard:

Code:

document.getElementById("Pic").src = "yourImageDirectory/0" + Start + ".jpg";

If you see code still using document.all, you can be pretty sure it is ancient history code that should be avoided.

Old Pedant · 07-19-2010, 10:30 PM

Actually, the fact that you are using
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
pretty much means you aren't going to work with old MSIE browsers, anyway. So why stick with document.all??

sfphoto · 07-19-2010, 10:41 PM

That simple line is what I needed. This slide show is small but if large would be great to have all the images in their own directory.

Thanks!