When I say help, I basically mean I wan't someone to write a script for me. Now I'm not lazy, I have over 1300 pages of JavaScript reference in front of me, and I worked on this for over a day, and it simply WOULD NOT WORK. I would copy things directly from the books and... nothing. This happens every time I try to write a JavaScript, thats why I hate it so much. Well anyway, heres what I need, broken down into section.
The Script I need is a banner swapper, like swap one every 2 seconds or so.
So first thing I did was create an array with the numbers 1 thru 8. Then I made a section that would take two random numbers within this array, and swap them. It would do this 16 times, so as to sufficiently shuffle the deck. Then I made a pretty standard loop that would increment which member of the array was used. I went in order, which was already shuffled. I like this technique because it would show you all the images in a row, never the same one twice etc, but the order would be different every time you visited the site. I also didn't preload the images, because for something like this, it really didn't matter about the time to load, like it would with a rollover. Plus I wanted to keep the script small and simple. To make it repeat every 2 seconds, I used some odd keyword like SetTimeOut(2000) or something like that. I called the main function onload and named the image object so I could change its contents. I did everything right, and literally by the book. But still not even close to working. So basically I'm wondering if someone thats actually GOOD with javascript can write me up a script like this that works.
More info: I used the array and then called the images like this"
image.src = "/images/" + num[i] + ".gif"
I called the image source the right way though
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