I'm trying to write a gadget that reads input from a text file. the file contains a number. The gadget needs to read the file and then display the image at a specific location with the number that is read but add ".png" at the end. Example would be "P:/some/location/file_to_read.txt" (contains the number "165") then display the image in the gadget at "P:/some/other/location/165.png"
How do you read a text file and assign the contents as a variable and then use that variable as part of a path to a local file (C:/some/location/$assigned_variable.png) that the gadget will display in JS?
Here is the code I'm using for a temporary solution that pulls the image from a webserver and displays it in the gadget, it works but uses bandwidth...I'd rather use a variable as part of a local path to display
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
//var a=0;
function init()
{
//document.getElementById("status").src="images/head.png";
document.getElementById("status").src="http://some_web_page/images/head.png?now=" + new Date();
//document.getElementById("gadgetContent").innerHTML = a;
//a+=1; //for testing timeout
setTimeout("init()", 600000);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init();">
<g:background
id="background"
src="images/headb.png"
style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;z-index:-999;no=repeat;" />
<img id="status" src="images/head.png" />
</body>Thanks!