whats problem in this code?

[PHPycho]

Hello forums!
I am using this code for preloading images
Code:

var images = new Array(); var i = 0; images[0] = "img/image1.gif"; : : images[4] = "img/image5.gif"; //alert(images.length); // start preloading.. for(i = 0; i < images.length; i++){ var imageObj[i] = new Image(); imageObj[i].src = images[i]; }

and following error occurs (in firebug)
Quote:
missing ; before statement
[Break on this error] var imageObj[i] = new Image(); \n
Any Idea where i went wrong ..
thanks in advance to all of you

[daveVk]

var imageObj[i] = new Image();

try without "var". imageObj should be declared prior to the loop say "var imageObj = [];"

[penders]

images[0] = "img/image1.gif"; : : images[4] = "img/image5.gif";

You seem to have a couple of stray colons (:) between these statements?

[Fotiman]

Try this:

var images = [ 
  "img/image1.gif", 
  "img/image2.gif", 
  "img/image3.gif", 
  "img/image4.gif" 
]; 
// start preloading..  
for (i = 0; i < images.length; i++) { 
  (new Image()).src = images[i]; 
} 

Since it doesn't look like you were using the imageObj variable for anything except preloading, there's no need to create a variable for it. Instead, I just created the new Image and then immediately set the src property. Note, I removed the weird colons that you had in your original post.