Re: Bitmap Linking

[Yariv Alter Fin]

Valentin hi,

Thanks alot, its amazing and it works. it is abit of an overkill 
however... indeed in the case of the one image i've sent its a 
prefect solution, however i am working on another project that needs 
to get a whole bunch of images from a cgi script... i could create a 
php script that get sent the url of the original file and the name of 
the local copy. but is there absolutely no way of reading the 
original files directly in director, somehow adding the missing file 
ending or something like that? or otherwise is there any xtra that 
could help with this?

again thanks for the solution,

greetings to all (Alfred! Hi!)

Yariv


I think the problem is that the png is dynamically generated by some
cgi-script, but director needs correct file-endings, mime-types in the
http-header don't seem to be sufficient. if you have acces to any
web-space with php-support, you can put there the following little
php-script ("pcw.php").
<?php
copy('http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng','pcw.png');
?>
this creates a copy of the recent png in your web directory.

now, whenever you want to update the png in your shockwave movie, use a
script like the following (eg. attached to an "update"-button):
property pNetId

on mouseUp me
    -- forces update of png
    pNetId = getNetText("http//domain/path/pcw.php")
    (the actorList).add(me)
end
on stepFrame me
    if netDone(pNetId) then
        -- use random to fool cache. set randomseed in prepareMovie
        member("myPng").filename="http//domain/path/pcw.png?"&random(the
maxinteger)
        updateStage()
        (the actorList).deleteOne(me)
    end if
end
valentin

Yariv Alter Fin wrote:
 Dear List,

   I am trying to download and link an online image file with my
 shockwave movie. the image adderss is:
 http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng . however, it wont link
 unless i download it to a known place on my harddisk and link it to
 the member from there. this offcourse i can't do from a shockwave
 movie...  any idea's of how to be able to get this image into my
 shockwave movie?
 T.I.A,

 regards,

 Yariv Alter / alterFin
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