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andio
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by andio » Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:29 am
I'm trying to load an image from an URL at runtime and display the cached image.
I tried different variants but none of them worked.
Downloading the image itself actually did work. The image is in the temporary folder.
The problem is that the image is not displayed in the image object.
What is the correct way to have the image object display a certain image?
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on startup
loadImage
end startup
on loadImage
set the downloadedImage of me to specialFolderPath("temporary") & "/image.jpg"
put url "http url/image.jpg" into url ("binfile:" & the downloadedImage of me)
-- try 1:
set the fileName of image "Image" to url ("binfile:" & the downloadedImage of me)
-- try 2:
set the fileName of image "Image" to the downloadedImage of me
-- try 3:
set the fileName of image "Image" to url "http url/image.jpg"
end loadImage
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by Dixie » Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:57 am
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set the filename of image 1 to specialFolderPath("temporary") & "/image.jpg"
This should work..

assuming that the image exists in the 'temporary' folder...
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by jmburnod » Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:10 pm
Hi andio,
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put "http://www.alternatic.ch/jmb/devrev/marginrectInside.png" into turl
set the filename of img 1 to tUrl
works for me
Best regards
Jean-Marc
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andio
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by andio » Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:23 pm
Something wrong with my stack? Both versions don't work here.
The file is in the temporary folder and if i choose that file in the Source-field in the inspector, the image is correctly shown in the stack.
But setting from within the code seems to do not work, nothing happends, the image object stays empty.
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andio
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by andio » Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:27 pm
Even this doesn't work. The image object is empty.
I just dropped an image object from the tools on the left onto the stack. Isn't that correct?
jmburnod wrote:Hi andio,
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put "why cant i post urls this is annoying" into turl
set the filename of img 1 to tUrl
works for me
Best regards
Jean-Marc
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by jmburnod » Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:49 pm
When I've written this
put "why cant i post urls this is annoying" into turl
set the filename of img 1 to tUrl
https://alternatic.ch
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by Dixie » Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:55 pm
What is your script for downloading the image and saving it to the temp folder ?
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by Klaus » Sun Mar 15, 2015 4:02 pm
Hi andio,
1. welcome to the forum!
2. You need to have at least 10 postings before you can post URLs and attachments!
3. You should check THE RESULT after your action, that may give you a hint about what goes wrong.
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on loadImage
set the downloadedImage of me to specialFolderPath("temporary") & "/image.jpg"
put url "http url/image.jpg" into url ("binfile:" & the downloadedImage of me)
## THE RESULT = EMPTY on success!
if the result <> EMPTY then
answer "Problem:" && the result
end if
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Best
Klaus
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andio
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by andio » Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:03 am
Hi Klaus
i already did that, the result() was empty.
I started a new main stack and tried it again, now it works. I tried to find out the difference between the both, but there seems to be now difference. Both build for ios standalone, both have the same dimensions and the same buttons, just 50 lines of codes but there must be some difference. Maybe a bug in 7.0.4 ...