Sounds like a caching issue in the engine. Following your recipe, I get the same results on a Catalina Mac with 9.6.0 and 9.0.5 (the two builds I have access too. In fact, I have two graphics - original and defaced, with the same file name, but one in .jpg format and the other in .png format, and the graphic still doesn’t update.
I vote for bug. kelly > On 19-Jun-2020, at 6:44 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to decide if this is a bug or just an oddity. (or a documentation > deficiency). > > Comments welcome to help me decide what bug report (if any) to file :-) > > When I "set the filename of an image" to a file, I expected that the image > should show the content of the file. And if I then go (outside the app) and > change the file, that change will *not* be immediately reflected - but if I > again "set the filename" (to the same value), it would then pick up the new, > correct image data from the file. > > However it doesn't. The 'filename' property has the correct value, but the > image is not updated. > > If I "set the filename to empty", and then "set the filename to (the file)" > again then the image is updated. > > (Kind of hard to describe well - see end of this email for another > description). > > Does that seem right ? Or like a bug ? > > The docs do say > >> Setting an image's filename property to the name and >> location of a file deletes the previous contents of the image. >> > which to me means this should just work - but I could be persuaded otherwise. > > Alex. > > ((Same description in step-by-step .... > > 1. copy bad.gif into this.gif (it's a bad file) > > 2. click on button - should show the bad image - that is, shows a blank image > i.e. set the filename of img "img1" to "...." > > 3. copy good.gif to this.gif (it's a good image) > > 4. click button again (doesn't fix it) > i.e. set the filename of img "img1" to "...." > > 5. shift-click button (does fix it) > i.e. set the filename of img "img1" to empty; set the filename of > img "img1" to "...." > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
