Bitmap Linking

2004-02-29 Thread Yariv Alter Fin
Dear List, I am trying to download and link an online image file with my shockwave movie. the image adderss is: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng . however, it wont link unless i download it to a known place on my harddisk and link it to the member from there. this offcourse i can't do

Re: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-01 Thread A. Rademakers
Hi Yariv, You could use a QuickTime sprite and set its filename to that adress... Maybe a Flash sprite can do the same with a little actionscript?.. with k.r. Alfred [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to t

RE: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-01 Thread Pedja Guzvica
mplicated to explain now but I remember having a simillar problem... Try putting the image into a diferent folder on the server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yariv Alter Fin Sent: 29 February 2004 16:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-01 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I think the problem is that the png is dynamically generated by some cgi-script, but director needs correct file-endings, mime-types in the http-header don't seem to be sufficient. if you have acces to any web-space with php-support, you can put there the following little php-script ("pcw.php"). h

Re: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-02 Thread Yariv Alter Fin
Valentin hi, Thanks alot, its amazing and it works. it is abit of an overkill however... indeed in the case of the one image i've sent its a prefect solution, however i am working on another project that needs to get a whole bunch of images from a cgi script... i could create a php script that

Re: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Yarif, I wished there was a better solution. I tried to send all kind of http-headers with php, like Header('Content-Type: image/png'); Header('Content-disposition: inline; filename=pcw.png'); in conjunction with a fpassthru($fp) command, no success. I even tried to fool director with "fake" u