Yearbook problem, help appreciated!

[Kevin McLachlan]

I am creating a yearbook for my school, and there will probably be about 1800 student pictures, along with that text that goes beside each person... (Likes, dislikes, quotes, hobbies, etc.) I know you can substitute text, with dynamic text... but how do I make a "dynamic picture" Like a placeholder, and then put the picture into the place holder or something, please lemme know all suggestions!

Thanks!!!


P.S. I don't want to create 1800 frames

[BurtonRider1983]

Let me get one thing straight first.....you are making an entire yearbook in a flash file...?  How are you distributing this to the students?  If you are planning on doing this online...
Are you making this enriely in Flash?....is it going to be a website thing or an exe that you distribute.  If it is a website then you can use ASP and link to an access database which stores pictures.
Since I do not know which method you will be using to deliver the content...I can't give you much help yet...Post some more info and I'll see what I can do.

[Kevin McLachlan]

I am making it an EXE file, it will be distributed to students as an "Interactive CD-ROM" and well, I haev 650-700 mb to work with

[Flash-db]

I would suggest using Flash MX.

Flash MX allows you to load jpg's directly into the Flash movie with just a LoadMovie Call.  LoadMovie("ThePhoto.jpg",0);

Then you can set up a place holder and load the photo into it.  Definitly the way to go since you can't run any scripts on a CD-Rom.  

This sounds like an interesting project - and a large one, let us know how it turns out.

[Kevin McLachlan]

I do not have flash mx, and Would prefer not to use it, even though I do have access to it...

[Musicman]

Hi,

get yourself one of those jpeg 2 swf converters then and make swf out of those images
wahlers.de/webcam.html - can do batch conversions on windows
www.chironexsoftware.com or www.livetronix.com might have something too
ming - requires either perl (by itself), php by itself or a webserver with php on your machine but can do more than just image conversion
www.fontimages.org.uk - just plain php required, either standalone or running in a webserver
Both can be used to make "smart" images where the swf file does not only contain the image, but some information about it as actionscript code. This would usually be just the image size, so as to allow lacement - but you could as well add a title or like right to the image files and thus reduce the need for text files

Musicman

[Kevin McLachlan]

It is being distributed as a CD-ROM, which means perl, php, etc. will not work... There has got to be some way I can call up the image into a movie clip.

For example, you cans et a music file to export to a symbol, say WAVFILE, and then you can use:

s = new Sound();
s.attachSound(NEWFILE)
s.start("0","999")

that will make the music play, so I checked and you can export an image as symbol too... but how can I call it up into position or whatever?

[BurtonRider1983]

I am just curious....why do you prefer to not use MX?

well... this is how you would do your yearbook...or at least call on the photos...
-All that you have to do is convert all of your pictures to JPEG's...
-Then call on them....

loadMovie("url",level/target[, variables])

As long as you are using Flash 3....you can call on any JPEG on your local drive....if you use this over the internet.....I know that you are not.....then the JPEG's have to be on your domain....URL=\pics\Photo1.jpg.........you do not want to put the drive because it varies from computer to computer.  Target obviously would be the space holder. And flash accepts jpegs as the variable.....should be quite simple...with the exception of the 1800 photos...but you can make the code really simple. Goodluck.