Image cache question

Phil Jimmieson phil at liverpool.ac.uk
Wed May 21 10:08:12 EDT 2014


Hi Ben,
thanks. That works perfectly. No complicated commands or anything.

On 21 May 2014, at 15:01, Benjamin Beaumont <ben at runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> 
> This was discussed by the team at the time. There is no special handling
> for the changing of images currently referenced by the cache. I spoke to
> one of the engineers and he suggested unsetting the reference to the image
> as the cache will release images that no longer have a reference. Reseting
> the filename will cause the image the be recached in it's new form.
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On 21 May 2014 12:52, Phil Jimmieson <phil at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> as far as I understand it, with the new image caching features of LiveCode
>> 6 and later, images are loaded into a cache based on their full filename
>> and then every reference to that image in LiveCode uses the cached copy.
>> I've got an image on disk that is used in my program, and the image on disk
>> is subject to change. It seems though, that once I've loaded the image once
>> (via a referenced image on a card), no attempt is made by LiveCode to fetch
>> the image from disk again and I can't figure out a way to force it to get
>> the new version of the image. Is there a way to flush an image from the
>> cache so that the next time the image is fetched it is loaded from disk and
>> not from the image cache, or is the only solution to change the filename
>> each time? The LiveCode program in questions is supposed to run on Mac and
>> Windows (though at some point, this may bite me on iOS too).
>> 
>> Thanks
>> --
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>> Computer Science Dept., Liverpool University, Ashton Building, Ashton
>> Street
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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