random pic rotation w/out refresh?

[thrillho]

Just got a call from someone wanting to know if I can do a page with a picture that changes without refreshing the page or anything. The pictures are to be randomly pulled from a folder to which they want to be able to ftp additional pictures into. I need to let them know tomorrow, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[DangerDave]

Lee

Do they want the pics to change in quick succesion? eg every 30 secs, 2 mins etc? or is it a daily change type thing?


If it was the quick change option, then it would have to be run by java/javascript I believe

DD

[thrillho]

Thanks for the quick reply, Dave! It is a quick succession change that they're looking for. As I understand it, the pics are around 640x480 or so, and they want them to change every 15 to 20 seconds.

[DangerDave]

Sounds like a job for a java applet mate... sorry I dont have nay solution...

Try..

http://www.freewarejava.com/applets/ad.shtml

DD

[thrillho]

A couple on that page look promising--thanks as always, Dave!

[dgraf]

What about autorefresh in iframe?

[thrillho]

dgraf,

I'm going to have to display my computer illiteracy here...
I've seen iframe mentioned a lot, but don't know what it is. Any link to info that might be helpful? Thanks for your input!

[dgraf]

By using the iframe element you can create a sub-window of desired position, size and feshion on your page and load an independet html page into it. The second html page will contain just the image and a refresh code within.

More info about inline frames here -

W3C - Inline frames: the IFRAME element (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#h-16.5)

[Trev]

sounds to me like what you're looking for is a slideshow app. Do a search for them... heck, a quick look on the site that DD provided shows these http://freewarejava.com/applets/slideimage.shtml

this is the first one I clicked on http://www.anfyteam.com/anj/mosaic/mosaic.html
most auto ones tend to use some kind of transistion effect.