/**
 * @author Bill Schmidt
 */

function ajax (objID, serverPage)
{
	var xmlhttp = false;
	
	try
	{
		xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
	}
	catch (e)
	{
		try
		{
			xmlhttp = new ActiveXObjext("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");	
		}
		catch (E)
		{
			xmlhttp = false;
		}
	}
	if (!xmlhttp && typeof XMLHttpRequest != 'undefined')
	{
		xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	}
	
	var obj = document.getElementById(objID);
	xmlhttp.open("GET", serverPage);
	xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function(){
		if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200){
			obj.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
		}
	}
	xmlhttp.send(null);
}
/* teh preloader */
function preload_image (url)
{
	var i = new Image();
	i.src = url;
	return i;
}

var loading = preload_image("images/loading.gif");


function show_img(name, type)
{
	if (document.images)
	{
		var source = "images/"+ name + ".jpg";
		document.images['pic'].src = loading.src;
		document.images['pic'].src = source;
		document.images['pic'].className = type;
	}

}