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if you have the latest build of dx loading new images into objects becomes possible without the need for a web object using the new object.picture call in dxscript which dynamically assigns a new image file to an object.

this is a subroutine to load all jpg files from a folder into an array (filelist):

Dim filelist()
Sub listfiles(path)
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(path)
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
If colFiles.Count > 0 Then
ReDim filelist(colFiles.Count)
i=0
For Each objFile In colFiles
ext=instrrev(objFile.Name,".")
ext=mid(objFile.Name,ext+1,len(objFile.Name)-ext)
If ext="jpg" Then
filelist(i) = path&"\"&objFile.Name
i = i + 1
End If
Next
ReDim Preserve filelist(i-1)
End If
End Sub

to get a random file from the array you would need to use something like:
randomfile=filelist(Cint(rnd*Ubound(filelist))
not sure if that last bit works, haven't tested it, but I know the sub works because I was working on a dx slideshow type thing which I may go back to at some point

Cool I didn't realize that such an object existed, and thanks for the code snipit. I'll give it a try and report back on the results

hmm which version of dx are you using? I have 2.19a installed and object.picture is not supported yet. is it in the 2.19h version? I hd not updated yet because I had had alot of trouble with some of the eariler beta builds and so was waiting for some of the bugs to get worked out more. In any event I will still give the other code a try later on.

I am using 2.19h - archive your current version and give it a try, it's by far the most stable build I have used yet, not sure whether there are some bugs that may crop up, but I havent had any troubles so far
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Well I desided to first try and use the code snippit with the web browser as the holder for the image. First the code snippit worked fantastic! The problems that I had were with timming, finally got it all worked out, and now it works grea1! just point the code to a folder with images and the picture changes every 20 min and I am not using my webserver.

Thanks Tiggz for the help

Glad you got it working Black Knight

plug: if you have any more dx questions try posting them at the DesktopX Project forum http://joedoug.com/dxforums/index.php There are a few people there, including myself, who are usually willing to help out and/or say "hmmmmm, tricky..." consolingly
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Thanks for the link I just added it to my bookmarks