How to open an image file?

[Alex Tweedly]

Gajo Csaba wrote:

>Hi, I just want to load a simple image from a file. I'm using Windows. So 
>far I've tried these, but the image was not loaded:
>
>put URL "binfile:/C:/image.gif" into image "displayImage"
>put URL "binfile:/C://image.gif" into image "displayImage"
>put URL "C:/image.gif" into image "displayImage"
>
>  
>
Should be

put URL "binfile:C:/image.gif" into image "displayImage"

(i.e. no "/" between "binfile:" and the "C:", and only single "/" each directory level thereafter.
 
(see docs for "file"  - the "binfile" page doesn't include a Windows example, but the "file" one does).



>When I open an image from the development area (then it works), it 
>says that the source of the image is C://image.gif. So why doesn't it 
>open it in case #2?
>
>  
>
Are you sure it has two "/"s, not just one ?    I get file names like
D:/Our Documents/Alex/RunRev/Photo/IMGP0633.JPG

-- 
Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005