preloadImage = new Image();
preload.src = "iconimage.png";

And the loading starts when src property is given.

On Jul 19, 8:10 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Loading" the URL of an image into a GIcon() doesn't fetch the image.
> The image file only gets fetched when the map.addOveraly() is performed.

So api sets the src property only when map.addOverlay() is performed.
The feature request might be access to the image object of GIcon
object. So we could set the src property.
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