Yes, I'm setting the contenttype header correctly, and when I navigate to the .cfm file in a web browser the image appears as I expect it to. When the image is originally uploaded, I'm capturing the image's mime type and storing it in the database so that I can use it for my <cfcontent> when retrieving it for display later. I've been using a process similar to this for 3+ years on a website without any problems, but I want to transfer the same idea to Flex now, and am only getting broken images.
-----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lepusmars Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Can I use mx:Image to load images dynamically from an image.cfm page? if you go to umage.cfm in a web browser does the image appear? Are you setting the ContentType header on the response correctly? I've found the Image component to be very difficult to debug myself, but those are places I would start. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.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 <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! >
