The Ani(mation)S applet
Page 8 - Using file_of_filenames
8. Reading the names of your image files from another file.
This example is identical to second part of example #4 except that
the image filenames are all taken from a "file_of_filenames".
Recall that in example #4, the file descriptors looked like:
<![CDATA[
<PARAM name="overlay_filenames" value=" TSFC1.GIF & TSFC2.GIF
& TSFC3.GIF & TSFC4.GIF, TSTR1.GIF, TMAP.GIF">
<PARAM name="filenames" value="TIR1.GIF, TIR2.GIF , TIR3.GIF, TIR4.GIF">
]]>
For the example shown below, the only PARAMeter needed is:
<![CDATA[
<param name="file_of_filenames" value="fnamelist.txt">
]]>
The file fnamelist.txt contains:
<![CDATA[
#this is a comment
TIR1.GIF overlay = TSFC1.GIF, TSTR1.GIF, TMAP.GIF
#another comment -- note you must explicity define each file on each frame!
TIR2.GIF overlay= TSFC2.GIF, TSTR1.GIF, TMAP.GIF
TIR3.GIF overlay=TSFC3.GIF, TSTR1.GIF, TMAP.GIF
TIR4.GIF overlay =TSFC4.GIF, TSTR1.GIF, TMAP.GIF
]]>
(The spacing is shown only to illustrate the flexibility
available.)
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