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Hi, Frans,

remember that a Flash (SWF) object is running locally within a browser, despite it being hosted on a server. So even if you could load data into the SWF object, as soon as you close the browser, all data is lost. Also, besidesome temporary space and memory the SWF doesn't have any place to store data locally (due to security concepts).

Bottom line: What you need to do is upload the data (in your case pictures) to a hostign services, FTP server or any other web space.

So if you want to initiate this out of your SWF created in QuarkXPress you need to investigate how this service uploads pictures to its space.So the upload part migth be difficult to achieve at all.

Once you have the picture uploaded, it's easy to display it dynamically in the SWF out of QuarkXPress:

Use action Object > Display Image (Object is the picture box, Image takes a URL)

You can even scale pictures automatically, so that they always fit.

As the URL can be calculated (random pictures from Flickr, an ID the user enters etc.) it's easy to display the rigth image.

Enjoy!
Matthias

Hi, Frans,

please allow me to answer this publicly:

Frans:

Matthias Guenther (Quark):

As the URL can be calculated (random pictures from Flickr, an ID the user enters etc.) it's easy to display the right image.

I don't understand the last part of your e-mail.

What I meant is that you can calculate URLs. So once your user has uploaded the image, you can calulate the picture to display e.g.

• by date
• by user ID
• using a random number
• etc.

And example for a date would be:

Or for a random picture:

Does that explain it?

Best regards
Matthias

Frans van Huizen:

So i cant make a selection (popup for example) to select an image out of the folder that contains uploaded images?

Yes, you can. Once they are uploaded you can access them. Whether you do that with a checkbox, a popup, a menu or somebody entering text it is your choice.

Just it needs to match the file namethat was uploaded. The difficulty can be to find out how it is called, therefore date or prefixed ID is a good choice.

Groetjes en veel plezier
Matthias