Send an image to an SWF

[Cosmocrazy]

Hi guys. I have a website that is meant for showing pictures. Right now, it's set up so that I have to make a new webpage and manually configure every picture (size, location etc) exactly how I want it. Here's what I mean: (example)

There is a frame on the page, and every time you click a thumbnail on the bottom, a new webpage loads in the frame. As you can imagine, creating this is very tedious.

My question is: How do I load an image into an SWF (CENTERED - very important, for both landscape and portrait pictures) and then scale the picture based on the current width and height of the SWF? I also want to make it so that the user can click on the picture in the SWF to see the actual image [in actual size].

I tried using Javascript but since I couldn't center both landscape and portrait pictures, it wasn't a great solution.

[MidiMagic]

Most browsers don't like to rescale if they don't have to. Instead, they will leave the object as large as the largest thing that has used it so far.

A few tips:

- Choose a more entrenched image format (e.g. .jpg). Newer formats are harder to get to work the way you want them to.

- You may have to make a separate page for each image to get this to work the way you want it to.

- Centering used to be easy. It is now one of the hardest things to do reliably in web page design.

[Cosmocrazy]

Alright, can someone AT LEAST tell me how to tell the SWF to load the image??

[MidiMagic]

Why are you insisting on using a proprietary system? It requires the user reading the page to have the software.

Use standard file formats. Be compatible!