Try using the cfm page's full URL as the source property, just to make sure you aren't running into a problem with relative paths.
<mx:Image x="0" y="0" source="http://myserver.com/image.cfm"/> If that still doesn't work, you can try setting some handlers, probably on the ioError event, to see if more information on the error condition is available. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "k.hemmen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our flex developer recently left our company, and I've been given the > task of resuming work on an enormous project he was involved in. > Right now, I'm trying to do something where I display a tile list of > images depending on the results from a database query returned by a > call to a method in a CFC. > > I've written a coldfusion page called image.cfm that can take a URL > parameter (the ID of the image from the database), retrieve the file > from our filesystem, and simulate the content of the image by doing a > <cfcontent> to spit out the binary data of the image. This is > obviously handy, because I don't need to know the location of any of > the image files on my fileserver. I can simply request > image.cfm?id=12345 and the ColdFusion page will handle the rest, > returning the image with ID 12345. This works beautifully on our web > site. > > The problem I'm having now is that I'm trying to implement something > similar using Flex. Each time I try, Flex only displays a broken > image. As I was trying to figure this out, I broke things down to as > simple as I could make them. I created a sample image called > test.jpg. I also modified image.cfm so that it only loads test.jpg. > When I navigate directly to image.cfm with my web browser > > http://myserver.com/image.cfm > > It displays the image just exactly as I'd expect it to. However, when > I run my Flex application with the following code: > > <mx:Image x="0" y="0" source="image.cfm"/> > <mx:Image x="100" y="0" source="test.jpg"/> > > The second <mx:Image> displays just fine, but the first one does not. > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to do something like this from > inside Flex? I'm very new to Flex, but not to development in general. > I'd appreciate any information you might have. Thanks! >
