How do I import/read images and their ID from a separate folder to change the icon of a button?

[William de Smet]

Thanks for the info!
It's not quite working because it needs to happen 'invisible' so
'answer file'  is not what I need.
And then there is the random function as well.

Do you think it is possible to use "put the files into fld "pictures"
and then pick one at random?

greetings,

William



2011/11/27 Björnke von Gierke <bvg at mac.com>:
> On 27 Nov 2011, at 15:38, William de Smet wrote:
>
>> Eventually I will need a lot of images and now I was thinking of
>> keeping the images outside of the stack in a separate folder.
>> Is it possible to do the same thing? Read the images and their ID and
>> set the icon of the button to the ID of an image.
>
> Not exactly like that, but you can create image objects that only reference an stored image somewhere, by setting it's fileName. So you could have a button that references an id of an existing image object, which in turn references an image on your hard disk. I suggest to look up the fileName dictionary entry, barring that, here's an example (untested):
>
> on mouseUp
>  create image
>  put it into theImageID
>  create button
>  put it into theButtonID
>  set the icon of button ID theButtonID to theImageID
>  answer file ""
>  if it <> "" then
>    set the fileName of image ID theImageID to it
>  end if
> end mouseUP
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