making a "tv screen"

[Benson]

I've been trying to think of a way to design a tv screen effect without using HTML 4 elements. This would be an image of a "tv" whose screen showed a slide show. I know that there are javascript applets that will cycle the images, but how in the world would you lay the images on "top" of the TV graphic??

[Deb]

hmmm without using any of the newer abilities such as DHTML and/or java, javascript, flash, etc..... I can only think of one way off hand and even it would seem 'heavy' in file size to say the least...

Create a table... make the 'tv screen' the background image for the table, and put an animated image in the table.... this would essentially be placing the animation on top of the tv screen and the animation would contain the different images you want displayed...

shrug -- tis an idea anyway http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

Deb

[This message has been edited by Deb (edited 01-17-99).]

[Benson]

Thanks Deb! I think the table background image might just be the ticket. I've got the TV as a background image in a table and will run a javascript applet to cycle images "across" the screen. Once I get the images sized identically it should work like a charm (famous last words!). I wish NS3 supported table bg images http://www.aota.net/ubb/frown.gif

[meikel]

Hi,

most sites with this effect don't use the table background way. They split up the TV screen in 9 images, throw away the middle one and make a table to show the remaining 8 with a large spot in the middle where they cycle the other images.

Meikel

[Justin]

I would split the TV into 4 images, throwing away the middle. You would have a Top, Left, Right, and Bottom. Then do something like this:

top.gif
left.gifYourPic.gifright.gif
bottom.gif

You could then have different pages with the refresh tag, and since the 4 "border" images will be cached, they'll load instantly.

That's another way, anyway. You could also put a java applet in the middle too.

One note: when doing this, the image references MUST be slammed together like above. Otherwise, the carriage returns will cause a gap in between.

Just a thought http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

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Justin Nelson, SFE Inc.
http://www.vdj.net

[Deb]

They're right... It would be better to dice it up that way....

And a free lil program that will dice up the images can be found for download at http://www.aota.net/Tools/

Just select the imageDicer and you're good to go... tis a small program.. easy to use.. if you do not have one already.

Deb

[Benson]

Cool! Thanks folks.