Davy
Thu Jan 31 03:11:54 CST 2008
Paul,
thanks for the prompt and comprehensive reply. At least now I understand
the file path.
I will try to investigate some of the leads you have given me,
thanks
Davy
"Paul Randall" <paulr901@cableone.net> wrote in message
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> "Davy" <david@REMOVEallTHISchobham.org.uk> wrote in message
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> >I need a script that will examine a folder to discover all the files
> >(jpg
> > images) in the folder and then create html that displays the images
> > in my
> > current FrontPage web page . I can then move the images around on
> > the page
> > and then save the page which will place the images in the web's
> > images
> > folder.
> >
> > If I do it manually using Insert/Picture etc then I get html which
> > looks
> > like:
> >
> > <p><img border="0"
> > src="../../Data/LEASURE/Places/Newbury/DSC01160.JPG"
> > width="480" height="640">
> >
> > I am puzzled that the drive and highest level folder which contains
> > the
> > image is not shown.
> >
> > I have only a little experience of VB and none of using VBA in
> > FrontPage (if
> > VBA CAN be used in FrontPage)
> >
> > any thoughts?
>
> Hi, Davy
>
> I never got around to playing with any version FrontPage. I don't
> think it had a VBA or macro language, but I could be wrong.
>
> Microsoft has had many flavors of the BASIC programming language over
> the years. Visual Basic (aka VB) was the expensive top-of-the-line
> flavor, whose last version was 6.0, I think, which came out late in
> the last century. It is completely different from VBA, which replaces
> the macro language of previous versions of the various Office
> applications. There is VBA for Word, VBA for Access, VBA for Excel,
> and perhaps other flavors of VBA; they are similar but contain things
> specific to their office application. I suppose there could be a VBA
> for your version of FrontPage. VB and VBA are completely different
> from VBScript, which was originally designed to be used for scripting
> within web pages, but which can be used within any windows scripting
> host, like WSH, .HTA, and .HTML files.
>
> This is a VBScript newsgroup; VBScript is easily capable of recursing
> through a folder and its subfolders, and building HTML anchor or image
> element strings which can be written to a simple HTML file, and maybe
> your version of FrontPage will be able to manipulate things the way
> you want.
>
> The scripting documentation is in file SCRIPT56.CHM which should
> already be installed on your system, but which you can download from
> msdn.microsoft.com. In general this documentation is quite good,
> although there are some undocumented features. One you might want to
> use is the picture object, which will get you the dimensions of the
> pictures (it is in the Visual Basic documentation). Maybe FrontPage
> will do this for you more easily.
>
> The format you talked about,
> > <p><img border="0"
> > src="../../Data/LEASURE/Places/Newbury/DSC01160.JPG"
> > width="480" height="640">
> isn't so puzzling if you remember how to use the chdir or cd commands
> to move upward in the directory structure in a command line window
> (aka DOS box).
> Something like cd ../../data/LEASURE/Places/Newbury/DSC01160.JPG
> would take you up two directory levels from the current directory
> level, then down multiple levels through the data folder to the .JPG
> file. This format is called a relative path -- relative to the path
> of the HTML file the anchor or image element resides in. If a drive
> letter and path were used, it would be an absolute path. If you
> decided to move the whole set of web pages and the underlying files to
> a different drive or folder, it would be a piece of cake with relative
> paths - just move the folder structure; it would be a nightmare of
> changes with absolue paths.
>
> The file system object (explained in the scripting help file) has some
> handy path-parsing methods which work equally well for file paths and
> url paths. These method names all start with the word get, like
> GetParentFolderName and GetExtensionName.
>
> -Paul Randall
>
>