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marev
10-26-2001, 10:55 PM
Hi there,

This question may be better in the actionscripts area. On the other hand, I am a Newbie...

Has anyone ever tried to load an image (say a gif) into a Flash movie, and then set up a script to update the Flash movie whenever the gif on the server was changed?

For instance: You have an animation of a rotating cube playing on a webpage. On one of the sides of the cube, you have an image. Now you want that image to change simply by dropping a new image into the image resource folder on a server.

Where would you start to set that up? getVariables works so far only with text (right?) and importing an image doesn't help because Flash stores a copy of the image in its library.

Any and all advice is appreciated!

mpol777
10-26-2001, 11:41 PM
ou're not going to be able to get .gifs in there, but you can load in .swf's. so if you want to coveted, user upload a .gif and display it in flash, you're out of luck.