Javascript Question

[Jubba]

Well, I have a series of images that are going to be placed in an IFRAME. I want to make a button (not in the IFRAME) that will change the IFRAME without having to reload the buttons. I figure i need javascript for that. I know I could do this in flash, but I don't really want to use any flash elemnts for this site... if you need more information let me know...

[lostinbeta]

Well if your buttons are not in the iframe, and you are changing yoru iframe, then there is no reason to refresh your buttons right?

Then you can use a link like....


<A TARGET="iframename" HREF="page.html">LINK</A>

[Jubba]

yeah i didn't include enough information. They are like a forward and a back button that cycle thru the images.

[lostinbeta]

OHHH, well that would be more difficult then.

Well if it helps....


<A HREF="javascript:history.forward()">Go Forward</A>
<A HREF="javascript:history.back()">Go Back</A>

These act like the browsers back and forward buttons. You can try and work something out with them.

I will see what I can come up with as well :)

[Jubba]

Well it wouldn't be the history, it would be loading images into the IFrame. I don't want to have to reload the entire page for the users sake

the code on a flash button would look something like this...


on(press){
ii++
loadMovie("http://www.livetoskateboard.com/curious/myImage"+ii+".jpg" , "_root.targetMC")
}


and



on(press){
ii--
loadMovie("http://www.livetoskateboard.com/curious/myImage"+ii+".jpg" , "_root.targetMC")
}

[lostinbeta]

Well it would allow you to go back and forth through the images.

If you want to load the images directly without having them be a different page... that will get more difficult :-\

I will see what I can do though.... I will work on it later.

[lostinbeta]

Is there any AS on the frame?

If so, that would help me out too.

[Jubba]

Nah, I lost ya. Lol... I mean, I don't want to use Flash. I'm just giving an example of what the AS would look like. I know its possible to do in Javascript, I have seen it done with functions and the like...Don't worry about it. I'll just use Flash. Just publish it as Flash 5. Thanks anyway Beta...

[lostinbeta]

No, I think I can come up with a javascript way.

I just need to use Arrays and have it go back and forth through the array.

The only thing I might not be able to do is load it through the iframe, I am not sure though, I might be able to figure it out.

[Jubba]

eh, I can use flash. not a big deal. Not even a deal. I just didn't want to have to use an excessive amount of flash. This will be work for monday...thanks anyway Lost...

[lostinbeta]

Yeah, I kinda couldn't get it to work right.

I have never done one before so I don't know exactly what to do. I might work it a bit this weekend (it would give me practice in Javascript).

If you want to see what I came up with after giving up on your thing it can be seen here (yes, I know, it is totally different in everywhere, but I got back to working in DHTML)....

Build Blocks Spiral Experiment (http://www.8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/experimental/blocks.html) It should work in both IE and Netscape (it does for me).