Chris, You could do this in flash; the recent versions allow you to load jpeg's dynamically at run-time, so you could pass in the filenames, etc. that you need for the drop-down via URL arguments or loading XML. it wouldn't be their standard interface widgets that ship with Flash MX, but you create something that does the same thing...
Jason On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 12:14 AM, Chris Smith wrote: > Thanks for the offer. I was already heading down that path when the > thought > occurred to me that it would be so much more elegant if the images were > right in the drop down as 32x32 thumbnails. I've been able to use css > to > declare the background color of certain options, and recently I've > seen some > pretty slick .net controls like a multiple select done in a drop down > with > check boxes, very slick. > How about a java applet? or maybe even a small flash piece? Oh well > guess > I'll use the onChange event until something cleaner comes along. > I've been using a preload image script that I got from cut-n-paste > JavaScript seems to work well enough. > csmith > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JJ Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:52 PM > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: a little OT - images in a drop down select > box > > >> It can't be done as Wayne said - the only thing I can >> think of is to have a text list appear in the dropdown >> (or multiple list) and then depending on which is >> selected a small image appears beside the dropdown >> (with javascript). I used this method before and it >> worked ok. >> >> Along the lines of... >> >> <select name="picture" size="1" >> onChange="showimage()"> >> >> <option value="horse.gif">Picture of a horse</option> >> <option value="cow.gif">Picture of a cow</option> >> >> </select> >> >> The showimage function would then display the image - >> you could even specify where each image links to. >> >> If you want the code in full let me know. >> >> JJ >> >> --- Wayne Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a technique for >>> displaying a thumbnail image >>>> in a drop down select box. >>>> >>> Not in standard HTML. The browser controls the >>> appearance of the drop down >>> and the text within it. >>> >>> Wayne Irvine >>> >>> Byte Services Pty Ltd >>> http://www.byteserve.com.au/ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Ph 02 9960 6099 Mob 0409 960 609 Fax 02 9960 >>> 6088 >>> >>> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! >> http://sbc.yahoo.com >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> __ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > _______________________________________________________________________ > _ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > -- ____________________________________________________________________ Jason Pamental, President [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bathysphere Digital Media Services, Inc. http://bathyspheredms.com ____________________________________________________________________ Tel: 401.490.6830 Fax: 401.490.6831 ________________________________________ A North American Distributor for Witango (http://www.witango.com) Rapid Web Application Development - XML Execution Engine ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
