We want to import pictures into a live site from a folder full of jpgs (not generator) - someone has suggested using the loadmovie command - using a blank movie as the template, however this means we would have to have a folder full of swf’s with pictures embedded in them. We have hundreds of pictures in our gallery and so this is impractical. Any suggestions? ASAP
Thanks
Unfortunately, Flash itself does not support dynamic content except LoadMovie ( for .swf files) and LoadVariable(for .txt files).
A couple of suggestions:
Swift Generator. Its like Macromedia’s Generator, except its free. It can generate a lot of different types of dynamica content.
JGenerator is an open-source (free) Java version of Macromedia’s Generator.
Other than that, it looks like your only option is to go into your folder with the jpegs and turn them into swf files. I suspect (though I don’t work often enough with Flash to be sure) there is a way to automate this, maybe with a batch process. I searched through Usenet for something on this, but the best I could find was that Fireworks has a batch command that will convert jpgs to swf. So if you have Fireworks, your set.
Just before I submitted this, I found a program called JPG2SWF that should do what you need. You can download it off of CNET here. But I’ll leave the rest of this post up here in case this program isn’t what you need.
Thanks, I’ll give it a go…