need some creative ideas here...PLEASE HELP!!!

[zskillz]

I want to write a program that changes my windows 98 wallpaper to a picture that I have saved in a specific directory evertime that I restart windows....

i know how to do it using a .vbs file if I actually hardcode the name of every file in the directory..... I guess that what I am asking for is a way to read and categorize, based on number (as in an array) all of the files in a specific directory.. then I would use the random number feature to generate a background....


my problem is knowing how to read all of the files in a specific directory into some sort of array so that I don't actually have to hardcode the filenames into the .vbs or the *.java file....


if anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me know

-Zp

[vass0922]

How about when the application runs it looks for all the files then populates a Database on all of the files.
Also you could make a table with all of the directories in it, that way you dont have to hardcode it, if you want to add a directory just add it into the DB


If you're using VBS you could probably pretty easily setup a DB with Access...

You could then have the application return the highest index # of in the files table, and the app picks a random number sends it back to the DB for a request of the filename....

All you'd need is a table for the folders to look into, and a table for the filenames, to make it a bit more "normalized" you could have a folderId to link back to the folders table so you could just have the filename alone, and then prepend the folder structure to that filename retrieved from the folders table

Clear as mud?