imageSource images don't refresh if binfile type?

[Jerry Daniels]

Scott, thanks for these ideas. They are all a bit more drastic than I 
had hoped, but desperation being what it is, I tried them all...

> - Did you try setting the imageSource to an alternate (bogus)
> image/filename, and then setting back to the desired file?
>
This one worked! There is evidently a cache somewhere for these images 
that are used as imagesource from a file location. This cleared the 
cache!

> - Maybe you could try a "go-between" image in the stack.  Set the 
> filename
> of the go-between, set the imageSource of the field item to the id of 
> the
> internal go-between, then set the imageSource back to the external file
> reference.
This one did NOT work, altho I tried it first for performance reasons.

> - Heinous Workaround: use go-between images for *all* images used in 
> the
> field, set filenames of go-betweens appropriately, set imageSource
> references to Ids of go-between images.  Requires a bit of overhead, I 
> know,
> but if nothing else works...
I am not doing this very solution, but am integrating the global nature 
of it. I'm setting the imageSource of all target chars to a bogus image 
file name and then setting them back to the real ones.

Thanks!

Jerry

On Jul 16, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Jerry Daniels  wrote:
>
>> I've got a field with lots of images in it, thanks to the imageSource
>> property. Since all the images are in a folder, I'm using the syntax:
>>
>>    set the imageSource of char x of fld y to ("binfile:" & 
>> theFilePath)
>>
>> Works great. Works fast.
>>
>> But wait...there's a dark side.
>>
>> When the file that is being referenced by that imageSource call 
>> changes
>> content (but not it's file name!), the image in my field will not
>> reflect that new image content on screen as it is in the file. It's as
>> if the image data is being cached somewhere and I can't force it to
>> refresh.
>
> Three ideas:
>
> - Did you try setting the imageSource to an alternate (bogus)
> image/filename, and then setting back to the desired file?
>
> - Maybe you could try a "go-between" image in the stack.  Set the 
> filename
> of the go-between, set the imageSource of the field item to the id of 
> the
> internal go-between, then set the imageSource back to the external file
> reference.
>
> - Heinous Workaround: use go-between images for *all* images used in 
> the
> field, set filenames of go-betweens appropriately, set imageSource
> references to Ids of go-between images.  Requires a bit of overhead, I 
> know,
> but if nothing else works...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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