How about setting the item delimiter to "/" and using chunk operations, instead
of regex?
(Not that it would be hard to use regex, but generally LC code is even
easier....)
On 2012-08-11, at 11:57 PM, Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote:
> I'm working on catalog delivery system in our new web site.
>
> one of the media types is "slideshow" and we have a path that we can
> programatically build from the database data that knows what year the photos
> were taken and has a file ID that match the folder on disk... After that we
> also know that the thumbnail/image we want for a gallery/catalog view is
> going to be in a folder call "preview"
>
> We also really don't care which thumbnail we use for the catalog,
>
> So of course we could do something like this
>
> on a repeat loop
>
> put "/media/slideshows/" & tYear & "/" & tFileID & "/preview" into
> tThumbsFolder
> set the defaultfolder to tThumbsFolder=
> put line 1 of the files into tGalleryThumb
>
> # then create small function to build the image tag:
>
> put format ("img src=\"" &tThumbsFolder & "/preview/" & tGalleryThumb & "\"
> />" into tGalleryImage
>
> and then push that in the table. That's pretty obvious
>
> But I've had trouble in the past with repeatedly with resetting the default
> folder on a loop like this and it seems like a lot of disk reading when we
> really don't care which file we use and we also a) know there will always be
> one and b) it always ends in *.jpg
>
> I am wondering if there is some reg-ex magic that I could use to just read
> the first file in say this folder:
>
> /media/slideshows/2008/2008-01-08_cambodia/preview/*.jpg
>
> where by I can avoid having to repeatedly reset the defaultfolder and get
> "the files"
>
> i suppose I could use a shell cmd but if you use something like
>
> "/media/slideshows/2008/2008-01-08_cambodia/preview/*.jpg" in a shell you
> will get all the files in the folder and not just the first one.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brahmanathaswami (new name of he who was formerly Sivakatirswami)
>
>
>
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