Comments on: Detecting whether an image loaded successfully in Flex

By: peterd

peterd — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:16 +0000

Rahul,

I would file the bug against Flash Player and if they determine the issue is with Firefox/Mozilla, they will either mark the bug as “External” and they may file a bug in the Mozilla bug base for you.

Peter

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:29:54 +0000

Hey Peter,

Not sure if we can file a Flash player bug as the problem might reside in the browser itself. Since, it works perfectly with IE. How to figure out the culprit here?
Is it Browser or the Flash Player..

Rahul

By: peterd

peterd — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:53:53 +0000

Rahul,

Unfortunately, due to browser differences (ie: what the browser provides to the Flash Player), there can be subtle differences between browsers and OSes. In this case Firefox/Mozilla may not be passing the status code to the Flash Player plugin, but IE is passing the status codes to the ActiveX plugin.

Feel free to file a Flash Player bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and post the bug number here and a few of us can vote on the issue.

Peter

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:12:32 +0000

With Mozilla the status cod is always 0. IE works perfectly. Is there any other way around with which we can find if the image loading is a success??? Is Flex browser specific???

By: That Akwuzu Bwai

That Akwuzu Bwai — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:05:10 +0000

Thank Petere for your illuminating examples.
I do have a smaller problem than the ‘0′ being displayed that i need to tackle, I dont have an action script background but logic is a natural thing. I am trying to show an image from a node of a node of an xml list that populates a datagrid. what i want is to show the selected image. when i tried i loads just a broken link of the image. I must be missing something , any help here’s my code

private function doScan(evt:MouseEvent):void {

img.source = ‘resultGrid.selectedItem.imgpath’;
}

my xml file

2348056441978
BIOS ADMIN
Onne Field
26/04/2008
XN403ABr
../bin-debug/img1.jpg

2348034521561
BIOS ADMIN2
Sapele Deopt
26/04/2008
XN403ABw
../bin-debug/img2.jpg

By: rod

rod — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:10:03 +0000

Chaz
it is because it get the image from the cache

try to add a random number after your file url :
http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/images/image10.jpg? + (Math.random() * 10000000);

but with this solution, it will always download the file from the server, even if the image has not changed…

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:16:17 +0000

I am having a problem with loading images.

The problem is when I change the image (same name new image) on the server in flex it still look at the old image (same name old image) until I close the application and open it up then it shows the me image.

How can I get this to show the new image without reopening the application? The user needs to see the new image loaded.

Thanks

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:36:50 +0000

I concur Tom. Firefox and Safari return 0 always whereas IE works as expected.

Why am I using Flex? ;)

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:00:32 +0000

Hey Peter!

Thanks for the detailed description of status code 0. The documentation that came with flex 2.x does not mention it in as much detail. Is there any way around it so that I could stick to firefox as the development and deployment browser?

Cheers!
Harry S.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:31:54 +0000

Doesnt work ! Server returns always 0 as status code ;-( If you want to check if your image has not been downloaded use , this code by instance change the image if img.source is not available.

Hope to help you