can this Javascript variable declaration be shortcutted?

[urbanzen]

var image1=new Image();
var image2=new Image();
var image3=new Image();
var image4=new Image();
var image5=new Image();
var image6=new Image();
var image7=new Image();
var image8=new Image();

image1.src="/images/evt_img/1.jpg"
image2.src="/images/evt_img/3.jpg"
image3.src="/images/evt_img/2.jpg"
image4.src="/images/evt_img/4.jpg"
image5.src="/images/evt_img/5.jpg"
image6.src="/images/evt_img/6.jpg"
image7.src="/images/evt_img/8.jpg"
image8.src="/images/evt_img/9.jpg"

*pseudo code bla bla*
for (i bla bla bal till 8) {
document.images.foo.src=eval("image"+i+".src")
}

Hello everyone, I was wondering if I can place the above declarations into a single array, and reference to it? I felt that this method is quite bulky and remembered that this can be simplified...

Thanks in advance for your help..

[Fotiman]

// An array to hold our image objects 
var imageArray = []; 
var i; 
// Create 8 new Image objects 
for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { 
  imageArray[i] = new Image(); 
  imageArray[i].src = "/images/evt_img/" + (i + 1) + ".jpg"; 
} 
// Not sure exactly what you're trying to do here 
// since 'foo' represents only a single image. This 
// will just overright it with the images from our 
// array, and it may happen too quickly to even notice 
for (i = 0; i < imageArray.length; i++) { 
  document.images.foo.src = imageArray[i].src; 
} 

Edit: I just noticed that in your original post, your 7th and 8th images have a different name. Instead of 7.jpg and 8.jpg, you have 8.jpg and 9.jpg. Was that intentional? If so, then you'd need to modify the first for loop in my example to something like this:

// Create 8 new Image objects 
for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { 
  imageArray[i] = new Image(); 
  imageArray[i].src = "/images/evt_img/" + (i < 7? i + 1: i + 2) + ".jpg"; 
} 

[edited by: Fotiman at 3:16 pm (utc) on Nov. 6, 2007]